safe drinking water, Tag

Imagine if you could create clean water from any source - no matter how dirty - in just one step. Australian scientists have managed to do just that with a new filter made from soybean-based graphene film. It's so effective...

Though over 748 million people around the world don't have access to clean drinking water, water filters aren't as widely used as they could be due to prohibitive costs...

In January 2014, an estimated 10,000 gallons of 4-methylcyclohexanemethanol (or MCHM for short) spilled from a ruptured Freedom Industries storage tank into the Elk River near Charleston, W.V. Exposure to MCHM, which is...

To help bring clean drinking water to the 780 million people who still go without, a company called Pumpmakers has developed the NSP Solar Pump, an inexpensive, maintenance-free water pump that can be manufactured locally...

Showers use roughly 1.2 trillion gallons of water every year in the United States alone, while three times the country's population around the world lacks access to any clean water at all. Swedish industrial designer Mehrdad...

Water is life - without a source of clean water for drinking and cooking, humans become very sick and often die. In wealthy countries, clean drinking water is taken for granted. In developing countries, accessing water often...

A team of international researchers have found a new way to purify water in the developing world. It’s a filter made of plasma-charged carbon nano-tubes that can easily filter out harmful contaminants and even remove salt...

Jointhepipe.org is a project that has created a system and community to help distribute water across the globe. The team designed a durable reusable water bottle to act as a symbol and represent a bigger idea — a collection...

Roughly 1 billion people in the world have no access to safe drinking water, and contaminated water kills more people worldwide than all forms of violence combined...

In a study funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, researchers have found that the process of layering nanoparticles could be used to provide safe and affordable water filters to the...

Happy World Water Day! In honor of this day of international awareness, Annie Leonard has released a new video talking about the evils of bottled water...