Source: inhabitat.com Published: July 12, 2017 by Lacy Cooke We take water for granted far too often. Whole civilizations have fallen as a result of over-exploiting water sources, according to Royal College of Art (RCA) graduate student Pratik Ghosh, so it’s...
Source: waterislife.com Published: February 15, 2017 A book You don’t want to put down! In partnership with Dr. Theresa Dankovich from Carnegie Mellon, WATERisLIFE introduced The Drinkable Book™, the first-ever manual that provides safe water, sanitation and hygiene...
Source: phys.org Published: January 30, 2017 From the top left corner, moving clockwise, the four images depict: University at Buffalo students performing an experiment, clean drinking water, water evaporating, and black carbon wrapped around plastic in water with...
Source: kqed.org Published: August 15, 2016 The tiny water purifier doesn’t require batteries and uses the visible spectrum of light to help kill bacteria. (Chong Liu and Jin Xie/Stanford University) Lindsey Hoshaw A tiny black tablet could prove to be a...
Source: inhabitat.com Published: May 19, 2016 Uppsala University scientists have developed a way to filter viruses out of water. by Lacy Cooke Though over 748 million people around the world don’t have access to clean drinking water, water filters aren’t as widely...
Source: ecowatch.com Published: May 1, 2015 Photo credit: Shutterstock Lorraine Chow A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Jain Irrigation Systems have come up with a method of turning brackish water into drinking water using renewable energy. With...
Source: waterworld.com Published: August 26, 2014 The White House Council on Environmental Quality and the Environmental Protection Agency awarded a 16-year old student from Nashua N.H., with a “President’s Environmental Youth Award” for her...
Source: gizmodo.com Published: March 19, 2014 By Andrew Liszewski It’s rarely the case that buying a two-in-one product is better than purchasing each component separately. But ÖKO makes a strong case for merging your flashlight and water bottle when...