News tagged with ceramic pot filters
Water study: Is colloidal silver necessary for bacteria removal?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Nicole Heinley, a graduate student at Missouri University of Science and Technology, traveled to Guatemala twice in the past year to conduct research on ceramic pot filters that are used locally ...
Sep 01, 2010 |
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Engineer helps poor in developing nations purify drinking water
The device looks deceptively simple - a porous clay pot placed in a five-gallon plastic bucket with a spigot - but Vinka Craver believes it can save millions of lives each year.
Mar 16, 2009 |
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Baking in the details: Semitic Museum project conserves thousands of ancient clay tablets
In the basement of Harvard’s Semitic Museum, Alex Douglas looked at the pieces of baked clay in front of him, teasing out how they fit together into a small tablet, thousands of years old and marked with ...
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Jan 06, 2012 |
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New water-filter factory in Ghana
In northern Ghana, that nation’s poorest and most rural region, most families get their drinking water from rivers or large, shallow ponds. The water in these bodies, which are also used by livestock, is clouded with ...
May 06, 2011 |
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How the Romans made pottery in Britain
In the shadow of Hadrian's Wall, Roman soldiers defended their empire's northern borders in Great Britain, passed the time in their bathhouses and inevitably drank a lot of wine. They also made an awful lot ...
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Jan 21, 2011 |
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In the World: Clean Water for Ghana
Nearly 1 billion people do not have access to clean drinking water. The problem is particularly dire in Ghana, where diarrhea causes 25 percent of all deaths of children below the age of five each year, according ...
Apr 30, 2010 |
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