Just Pure Water

Look at the irony in nature, the very same river that quenches your thirst turns into a toxic monster once it floods your city. The Health Light is a solar powered system that looks at alleviating such situations. You simply need to set up the purifier in bacteria contaminated water and let it do its work. Pretty soon…

Does reboiled water cause cancer?

Re-boiling clean uncontaminated drinking will water not cause cancer or any other health problems. However, boiling water contaminated with chemicals such as nitrates or toxic elements such as arsenic is a bad idea.

Ground water may contain nitrates, which are chemicals often found in fertilizer, and arsenic that may occur naturally or from farm or industrial waste. Nitrates, along…

How to Conserve Water Usage

Some scientists predict water shortages will be the most important challenge facing the world in the next decade, according to a Reuters report. Due to factors including increasing population and use as well as climate change, water is becoming an increasingly precious resource. Given these concerns, conserving water use in the home is an important step to…

Water Power Charger

One Swedish company recently released this PowerTrekk, a portable fuel cell charger that utilizes water to produce electricity energy. Over ten milliliters of water, either clean water or domestic sewage, is announced enough to have a cellphone or flashlight to work well. Good news is that you’ll soon find it in market and use it everywhere.

1ℓimit Faucet Saves Water

Many of my friends have frequently complained that they couldn’t mange to save water simply because they cannot control the flow of water freely. If that’s really the truth, they may need this 1ℓimit Faucet, something that offers only one liter of water for using at one time.

Once the water stored in the glass tube is used…

A Building On The Water

On an island that is located at the intersection of Lake Huron and Georgia Gulf, there’s a unique building built by MOS. The designer has made a metal pontoon as the house’s “foundation”, and as a result the whole building will shake slightly as the waves sweep the bridge. Additionally the house is surrounded by trees…

North Atlantic water warmest in 2,000 years

The water flowing from the North Atlantic into the Arctic Ocean is the warmest it’s been in 2,000 years, say scientists.

An international study has shown that water from the Fram Strait, which runs between Greenland and northern Norway, has warmed about 3.5 degrees Fahrenheit in the last century. It’s now about 2.5 degrees F warmer than…

Water Scale

About 2000 years ago, the great mathematician Archimedes concluded that anything shaped to displace the same amount of water as that of its weight can float on the water. Inspired by that principle, Muzaffer Kocer and Ayca Guven have collaborated with the Water Scale, a measuring device that can read out the weight of the object placed onto…

Why Do I Need Water or Other Fluids?

When you were a kid in school, you learned that each molecule of water is made up of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. You may also have learned that it was great fun to fill up your squirt guns with water, at least until the principal caught you. What you may not have learned,…

Will drinking water help me lose weight?

It’s possible that drinking more water will help with weight loss, especially if you replace sweetened high-calorie beverages with plain or carbonated water. That is, of course, as long as you don’t add other high-calorie foods to your diet.

Population studies suggest that people who drink more water tend to consume fewer calories. That doesn’t mean drinking water…

How to Save Money on Water Heating

One of the biggest drains on home budgets is the expense incurred in heating water. We use hot water for our baths and showers, for washing clothes, dishwashing, and even for washing our hands in the wintertime. Hot water, however, doesn’t have to be expensive. Here are some tips on how to save money by…