Americans don’t like the taste of water

Americans’ main complaint about water is that it tastes too much like water
Sarah Miller, grist.org

Robynne BlumeDo you feel like your doctors and your more annoying friends are always telling you to drink more water? Well, they’re just trying to help. Water is so important for your health! Sadly, water tastes like, well, water. And since Americ…

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Lifesaver jerrycans water filter

LifeSaver Jerrycan purifies 5 gallons of water for drinking and showering
C.C. Weiss, gizmag.com

The LIFESAVER Jerrycan is a large water purification jug that could be of great use to everyone from campers to inhabitants of remote villages. The Jerrycan incorporates a built-in filtration system which can purify 18.5 liters (4.9 gallons) of wa…

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Thoughts on rural research

In the Hands of God: Thoughts on Rural Research
core77.com

By Jan ChipchaseThis article summarises the issues in conducting corporate ethnographic research in rural locations covering logistics to research dynamics. Rural communities are far from homogeneous.Over the last decade I’ve seen an…

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Zuvo Water’s Stratus cleans your H2O with WiFi filters, cloud-connected app

Zuvo Water’s Stratus cleans your H2O with WiFi filters, cloud-connected app
Nicole Lee, engadget.com

Few of us are for­tu­nate enough to enjoy clean munic­i­pal tap water — the rest have to make do with clunky bacteria-riddled fil­ters and waste­ful bot­tled H2O. Enter Zuvo Water, which has hopped on Indiegogo to fund its elab­o­rate and…

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East Village Molecule Cafe

East Village’s Molecule Cafe Serves Nothing But Filtered NYC Tap Water!
inhabitat.com

Glass of water photo via Shut­ter­stock

A new water­ing hole called the Mol­e­cule Cafe has opened up in New York’s East Vil­lage, and it serves only one thing – NYC tap water. Con­sid­er­ing that the cafe gets the water for free, fil­ters it an…

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Soma Compost able water filter

Soma: Drink Better Water with a 100% Compostable Filter
core77.com

I’m sure I’m not the only person who hides the Brita when company comes over and feels terribly guilty tossing those carbon-filled plastic filters every couple of months. In fact, it’s always been a bit of a mystery to me why there wasn’t a…

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The best water filter for field use

Berkey Water Filters Provide Clean, Fresh Drinking Water At Home and In Disaster Relief | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building
Mark Boyer says:, inhabitat.com

With bot­tled water and potable tap water both so read­i­ly avail­able in devel­oped coun­tries, it’s easy to take clean drink­ing water for grant­ed. But when nat­ur­al dis­as­ters strike, one of the first things to sell out on store shelves is…

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Why you should not build expensive cities near salt water

FYI: Why Does Salt Water Make Hurricane Damage So Much Worse?
By Colin Lecher, popsci.com

The white stuff can stick around and ruin, well, pretty much everything. That puts the officials trying to fix it on a ticking clock.

Sandy crip­pled the NYC sub­way sys­tem this week, knock­ing out power, dam­ag­ing switch­es, and dump­ing…

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Whole Water Systems: replace your pool chemicals with a natural system

Mean Clear Air Precipitable Water, 500mb to to...
Mean Clear Air Precipitable Water, 500mb to top-of-atmosphere, January and July 2003 (Photo credit: Atmospheric Infrared Sounder)

I’ve grown tired of the copious chemicals we must apply to our pool to keep it clean each summer and then discovered companies such as this which will create pools that more closely mimic a natural system.

Whole Water Systems, LLC.