Tag Archives : Drinking Water

Haiti’s government on Saturday confirmed the deaths of at least 196 people due to cholera outbreak in the country. More than 2,500 people are hospitalized on suspicion of infection, which causes high fever, diarrhea, vomiting and dehydration. According to Haitian President Rene Preval, the authorities are taking steps to ensure that cholera does [...]

We live in times of water scarcity. We settle for water, as a commodity. And making water more fanciful only got a boost. One of the top eat-outs in Los Angeles, The Bazaar by José Andrés has started a fancy water menu that offers water such as Wattwiller Still whose origin dates back to Roman times, Speyside-Glenlivet Still that brings you water [...]

The purpose behind this invention is rather noble. It is meant to reach out to those people stuck in floods and other such natural calamities and supply them clean water immediately. Disaster relief has the worst kind of suffering, and often systems in rescue operations are ill-equipped for situations. It is with some profound thought that designer [...]

There have been many concepts and projects in the past that worked on generating water from air, but most of them confined to catering to the domestic needs. For the first time ever, researchers at Fraunhofer Institute led by Siegfried Egner, head of the department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology (IGB) in Stuttgart, [...]

There are chemicals found in pharmaceutical products that are also used in other industrial and manufacturing purposes. Lithium is used for the treatment of bipolar disorder, as well as for making ceramics. Nitroglycerin is a medication for the heart, as well as an ingredient in bomb-making. Copper is in contraceptives, as well as wires and pipes. The [...]

Water scarcity, pollution, and sanitation were the main talking points in the Ministerial-level talks among more than 100 ministers from 190 participating countries meeting at the recent World Water Forum in Istanbul. The main premise is that water has become one of the world’s worsening problems. The content of heated debates is whether water should [...]

The global pharmaceutical market is worth 300 billion euros. The United States is by far the leading consumer of medicines (51% of total), followed by Europe (25%) and Japan (15%). Residues of these prescription and over-the-counter drugs find their way into waterways all over the world. Although, drug pollution is primarily a problem of rich countries. Bodies [...]

That sounds pretty disgusting when you think about it, even though we are saying that the urine will be recycled! Irrespective of your personal tastes and fancy for delicacies, if you want to be a part of the crew that constantly keeps the International Space Station in shape and gets a fabulous view of the Earth and the vast cosmos, then you will have [...]