And at the famed Wiezmann Institute for Science, researchers are trying to turn dirty water into drinkable water.
Thousands of residents who were unable or unwilling to leave the city were stranded without food or drinkable water for days.
Ms. MANGONES: It's a very critical place because the water main that brings drinkable water to Port-au-Prince goes through that property.
The facilities could also be used to create drinkable water supplies in those countries where such a resource is in short supply.
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Breathable air and drinkable water have become political symbols.
The lawyers say in their motion that the lack of drinkable water has "already caused some prisoners kidney, urinary and stomach problems, " in addition to the health effects of the hunger strike.
The USS Carl Vinson arrived off the coast Friday, carrying 19 heavy-lift helicopters, 51 hospital beds, three operating rooms, and the ability to produce hundreds of thousands of gallons of drinkable water per day.
The collector also promises to do more with sunlight once it's trapped: since the microchannels should absorb more than half of the waste heat, their hot water byproduct can either be filtered into drinkable water or converted into air conditioning.
Without these things, we would not have clean, drinkable water, or the ability to convey wastewater away from our homes to treatment facilities, or systems to handle the vast amounts of garbage we produce, or anything to drive on to accommodate our four-wheel lifestyles.
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Mutesi wakes at 5 a.m. every morning to "begin a two-hour trek through Katwe to fill a jug with drinkable water, walking through lowland that is often so severely flooded by Uganda's torrential rains that many residents sleep in hammocks near their ceilings to avoid drowning, " he wrote.
What about our poorer and distant neighbors, the folk elsewhere in Africa and India, for example, scouring nearly around the clock for the means of basic survival such as finding relative safety, drinkable water, and food of any kind that we, with our self-induced complicated lives, take for granted as a basic given?
To prove that MTBE concentrations below the EPA's threshold still made water taste terrible, Summy unearthed documents like a 1983 Shell letter detailing that water was no longer drinkable where MTBE'S concentration was 7 to 15 parts per billion.
One of the key technologies that is needed is a means to recycle water from astronauts back into a drinkable form, along with radiation shielding and developing ways of working and living in space for prolonged periods.
McDonald's was dead in the water several years ago, until it added exciting new menu items and made its coffee drinkable. (Why it and Burger King used to serve stuff that made dishwater seem haute cuisine, this food junkster never understood.) McDonald's stock has tripled in less than six years.
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