When you're desperate for clean water
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You've got plenty of sunshine and running water on your patch in God's country. But the water is laced with toxins, and there are no power lines to run a water purification system. The Ecos LifeLink is a green tech mash-up, a modular system you plop down in areas lacking life support. (It is actually designed for use in homeland ...
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Communities worldwide are finding ingenious ways of purifying water and getting the most out of their supplies.
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GONAIVES, HAITI - The lines grew longer and the people more desperate as flood victims in this city begged for food and clean water in order to survive another day.
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Life & style: When the National Consumer Council investigated 'rip-off mineral water' in restaurants, it found one in five people 'too scared' to ask for tap water
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By Bert Caldwell, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Feb. 8--Worrying about water when the morning air is so saturated you cannot see a block ahead may seem strange, but why wait for spring runoff?   And there will be a runoff, for which no small thanks is owed.
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By Xin Dingding  Experts have urged the government to strengthen efforts to deal with water pollution in the wake of the Wuxi water crisis.  The Wuxi government has stressed that the incident was "an irresistible natural disaster".
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By Rex Springston, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Mar. 8--Take water from a river. Use a bunch of expensive equipment and chemicals to make it safe to drink.   Then pour it down the toilet.
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By Curtis Morgan, The Miami Herald  Feb. 3--Two years after a mysterious chemical contamination shut down two-thirds of the pumps tapping Miami-Dade's largest source of drinking water, county engineers are preparing to put them back on line.
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In a country where minor corruption is commonplace, Mexican water consumers are reaching for the panic button to sound the alarm when municipal officials demand a bribe.
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Empty your cupboards of chemicals and harsh pes
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An army needs water to operate, but it's a pain to tote the stuff around. So Darpa is looking at ways to pull it out of thin air. By Noah Shachtman.
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By Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Dec. 19--Everywhere you look right now, you'll see some organization asking for assistance to help someone in need. You may even start to feel overwhelmed by all the requests.
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By Stephanie Horvath, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Jun. 12--WELLINGTON -- Residents slurping up extra water might soon pay the price.
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Delicate wetlands, coasts and wildlife   sanctuaries could be ravaged as part of a struggle to stretch   the world's water supplies, with the worst damage foreseen in   poor countries.
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A water firm faces charges of supplying water unfit for human consumption after hundreds were left ill.
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By Judy Fahys, The Salt Lake Tribune  Feb. 6--The pollution that plagued northern Utah valleys last month left  Ann Waters, like many Utahns, disgusted and alarmed.
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Water is a finite resource and attitudes towards its consumption have to change if we do not want the taps to run dry.