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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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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A DIY Kit To Determine If Your Water Is Contaminated

A DIY Kit To Determine If Your Water Is Contaminated
BY EMILY BADGER, fastcoexist.com

To get definitive evidence if oil from the BP spill has seeped into water sources, citizen scientists need a device called a spectrometer. Sounds fancy and expensive. But a new project will send you one made with nothing but a few parts for just…

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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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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.