As international efforts continue to heal, feed and shelter victims of the earthquake that killed more than 200,000 Haitians and displaced millions more, an Evansville couple are helping supply clean drinking water. Five days after the Jan. 12 earthquake struck, Joe and Jenny Smith flew from St. Louis to work with Potters For Peace, an organization that teaches locals to make, assemble and distribute inexpensive ceramic filters that provide families with safe drinking water now and for years to come.
A man who received his doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh was awarded a $1 million prize for inventing a simple device that filters arsenic from drinking water in his native Bangladesh. Professor Abul Hussam, who teaches chemistry and biochemistry at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., won the Grainger Challenge Gold Award for Sustainability for inventing the filter, which consists of two polyurethane buckets lined with sand, brick, wood and iron composites that eliminate arsenic, which can cause organ failure and death.
....'' This includes exposure through drinking water and in residential settings, but does not in... as an active ingredient in water filters. The bacteriostatic water filters are impregnated ...
The CDC and EPA released a new guidance containing approaches that aim to help immunocompromised persons reduce their risk of infection with waterborne Cryptosporidium, a protozoan parasite that is resistant to chemical disinfectants. The guidance presents alternatives for killing the pathogen in drinking water such as point-of-use filters and bottled drinking water.
..., a functioning ecosystem provides drinking water, habitat, biodiversity, and biomass, sequestters carbon, filters a variety of airborne and water pollutants, and re...
This paper uses the examples of three nineteenth-century cities-London, Philadelphia, and New York-to explore both what is permanent about the problem of water provision (that consumers want it clean, accessible, and free) and what is mediated by the forces of government policy and economic constraints. In some cases, municipal authorities first claimed control over water supplies before figuring out how to pay for their works. In others, they calculated that such arrangements were both too expensive and too risky to bear alone. Both approaches were complicated by the high costs of providing water to urban areas and by urban dwellers' belief that water should flow from their taps without charge. The result was, and remains, a market in which price is largely dictated by political demand...
... had been using the Thames as a source of drinking water, a channel of navigation, and a dumping grou... matter they removed from the water with filters, they quickly came to conclude, in the words of on...
What consumers do, if anything, about water quality is usually an indefinable combination of various factors and almost always includes understanding, personal preference and budget. Even some people who live in established water-problem areas do not want to know what is in their water. For others who have been drinking well water for years (or even generations), they perceive no correlation between any adverse health conditions and water. If you are on a municipal or community water system, you have some comfort that your water quality is being monitored to ensure EPA compliance. Most complaints about public-system water have to do with residual taste ("chlorine taste") imparted by chemical agents used to eliminate microorganisms, scale (calcium and magnesium "hardness" buildup on fixt...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., March 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Honduran President Porfirio Lobo and safe water advocates Triple Quest, Health and Humanitarian Outreach Projects (HHOP), Safe Water Team, and Vida Abundante Ministry have announced a new collaboration to install 40,000 Hydraid(R) BioSand Water Filters throughout Honduras during the next five years. Over the longer term, the group envisions supplying Honduras' need for more than 265,000 of the innovative filters, which have been shown to effectively combat the leading causes of death and disease in the developing world by reducing parasites, bacteria and viruses found in contaminated water. As the global safe water community convenes in Cape Town to mark World Water Day 2011, we are very excited to share the news of our latest collabo...
... filter to obtain water that is safe for drinking, food preparation, personal hygiene and sanitation...
Getting rid of a television, a gallon of kerosene or a set of tires in an environmentally friendly way can be done with relative ease in North Jersey. But that small bottle of expired pills your doctor prescribed a few years ago? That's a bit more difficult.
... pharmaceuticals as a potential threat to drinking water. But free take-back programs are still relat... drinking water using membranes and carbon filters, but it's difficult. No single treatment can remov...
Federal legislation now consistent with NSF Drinking Water Standards to help protect consumers from lead exposure ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NSF International, an independent public health organization that tests and certifies a wide range of plumbing and drinking water treatment products, strongly supports the passage of the Reduction of Lead in Drinking Water Act on January 4th, which significantly reduces the amount of lead allowed in plumbing products that contact drinking water.
... (including water meters, in-line valves, filters, process equipment); mechanical plumbing devices (...
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