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The miners have been sent rubber boots as well as chlorine to purify water from underground sources, Manalich said.
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In Bekaa Valley, Mercy Corps has distributed hygiene kits, tablets to purify water, buckets and jerry cans to refugees.
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Another local startup is Epiphany Solar Water Systems, who invented the Epiphany E3H, a fully sustainable and cost effective invention that can purify water anywhere in the world.
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While the walls of the Inspiration Mars spacecraft will initially be lined with water-filled bags to guard against cosmic rays, their contents will be gradually replaced with er, byproduct that will be dehydrated through the bag (possibly using polyethylene) to reclaim and purify water for drinking.
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Ocean water pours through a series of pipes into rows of reverse osmosis filters which purify the water.
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The website HowStuffWorks has a fascinating article about RISUG that covers its genesis as a method to purify drinking water.
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Iraq cannot pump as much oil as the agreement allows it to sell, and though it now has a bit more food, it cannot purify its water.
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But its samples were collected in July, in the low season for tourism and at the start of the monsoon when rain would help to purify the water.
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To the long list of great ideas gone bad, add the UV Waterworks--a simple, cheap device to purify filthy drinking water in poor countries.
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Cost, it adds, has been the biggest obstacle to development, noting that it is much more expensive to purify seawater than it is to treat fresh water.
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