News tagged with water purifier

Banana peels get a second life as water purifier

To the surprisingly inventive uses for banana peels — which include polishing silverware, leather shoes, and the leaves of house plants — scientists have added purification of drinking water contaminated with potentially ...

Chemistry / Other

created Mar 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Japan touts pedal-powered water purifier

A Japanese company is gearing up for large-scale production in Bangladesh of a bicycle that can also be used to purify water at disaster zones or remote villages.

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4

India's Tata launches low-cost water filter for rural poor

India's giant Tata Group on Monday unveiled a new low-cost water purifier, hoping to do for health what it did for motoring and provide affordable, safe drinking water for millions and cut disease.

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Tropical Singapore an oasis for water research

Khoo Teng Chye, the amiable chief of Singapore's water agency, says he has been sleeping soundly since taking office five years ago.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 21, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0




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HyperSolar shows dirty water no barrier to power world

(Phys.org) -- The Santa Barbara, California, company, HyperSolar, is set to transparently share the ups and downs of its research experiences toward the company’s ultimate vision, successfully producing ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 17 | with audio podcast report

Frugal innovation

Co-author of recently published book 'Jugaad Innovation', Professor Jaideep Prabhu argues that a frugal and flexible approach to innovation can generate breakthrough growth not only in the developing world ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created May 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Petroleum volume: Getting calibrations in the can

(Phys.org) -- The volume of oil and oil products moving through America’s pipelines, waterways, roads, and rails borders on the unimaginable.

Technology / Engineering

created May 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Clean drinking water for everyone

Nearly 80 percent of disease in developing countries is linked to bad water and sanitation. Now a scientist at Michigan Technological University has developed a simple, cheap way to make water safe to drink, even if it’s ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 01, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Tackling contamination with minimal water and energy consumption

EU-funded researchers developed technology for a dry pre-cleaning as an alternative to the water- and energy-intensive decontamination process currently used by the medical and food industries.

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Student-devised process would prep Chinese shale gas for sale

A team of Rice University students accepted a challenge to turn shale gas produced in China into a range of useful, profitable and environmentally friendly products and did so in a cost-effective manner.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pig stomach mucins are effective as anti-viral agents for consumer products

Mucus often elicits strong revulsion, but to MIT biological engineer Katharina Ribbeck, it is a fascinating material. 

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Use less water, producing energy and fertilizer at the same time

Clean drinking water and basic sanitation are human rights. Yet almost 780 million of the world's population still have no access to drinking water and some 2.6 billion people live without sanitary facilities. ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Making drinking water clean: Economist offers insights on how to purify global supplies

The permanent way to prevent diarrhea from killing an average of 4,000 children a day worldwide would be for governments to step in and provide safe, clean water for their people to drink. But that prospect ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Solar thermal process produces cement with no carbon dioxide emissions

(Phys.org) -- While the largest contributor to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions is the power industry, the second largest is the more often overlooked cement industry, which accounts for 5-6% of all ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (25) | comments 22 | with audio podcast report


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