Water Making Machine

June 1, 2010 New York, USA
By Joe Kemp and Jonathan Lemire
NY Daily News Staff Writers
Nearly 75 Queens elementary school students
were hospitalized Tuesday after getting sick from
drinking contaminated water, authorities said.
Dozens of children complained that their
stomachs hurt after sipping from water fountains
in a new wing at Public School 20 in Flushing,
the officials said.
Students noticed pink water [...]

By: Natural News
(NaturalNews) A University of Washington research team recently released the results of a study it conducted on contaminant residue in the waters of Puget Sound in Washington State. Various spices, flavorings and other substances are being identified as making their way out of water treatment plants and back into the world’s water supply. [...]

Many consider a drop in the bucket the 65 million gallons of water Nestle has the rights to bottle and sell every year, at least in terms of the impact on the Arkansas River and its aquifers.

Others look at it differently. The deal has riled up local environmentalists who cringe at the very idea of siphoning off the precious cargo to pour into environment-straining plastic bottles and burning up gasoline to ship it throughout the West.

In a staggering feat of twisted logic, lawyers for Coca-Cola are defending the lawsuit by asserting that “no consumer could reasonably be misled into thinking vitaminwater was a healthy beverage.”

Does this mean that you’d have to be an unreasonable person to think that a product named “vitaminwater,” a product that has been heavily and aggressively marketed as a healthy beverage, actually had health benefits?

TRBC.com
The Red Carpet Broadcast
By: Christy Smith
Since the Associated Press Investigation of five months has surfaced, regarding drugs in the drinking water, more people are interested in the safeness of their drinking water. But this did not occur overnight, in fact, according to the United States Geological Study from the summer of 2006, MALE largemouth [...]

New Vanderbilt Study states:
Name a drink that can make you more alert for late-night studying, prevent you from fainting after giving blood, and even promote a teensy bit of weight loss.
Chances are you didn’t say water. But that’s the right answer.
Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have shown that ordinary water – without any additives [...]

by Jasmin Malik Chua, 07/23/10
filed under: Design for Health, Water Issues
UNICEF, Dirty Water Vending Machine, clean water, public health, humanitarian design, New York City, Manhattan, public art
As far as stunt activism goes, dropping a dirty-water vending machine in the middle of Manhattan during World Water Week is one helluva attention-grabber. For UNICEF’s Tap Project, however, [...]

CONCORD, Mass., June 23 (UPI) — An octogenarian living in Thoreau’s town of Concord, Mass., has orchestrated a ban on the sale of bottled water in the area, residents say.
Jean Hill, 82, proposed the ban at a town meeting in April and although officials allegedly have hinted they might not strictly enforce the ruling some [...]

by Trey Farmer, Inhabitat 07/20/09
Atmospheric Water Systems of San Luis Obispo has released their Dewpointe® Atmospheric Generator, a device that taps humidity in the air to provide a steady source of clean drinking water. The unit is about the same size as a standard water cooler (44.5″ tall), has on-demand hot water, is CE and [...]