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 [...]

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 [...]

June 24, 2010: Kansas City, MO USA
Bottled water was a hot commodity in Drexel
on Thursday after it was revealed that the tap
water was contaminated with the herbicide
atrazine.
Drexel Mayor Kenny Reece found out
Wednesday night about the city’s bad water
supply. The state tests the city’s water four
times a year and samples from last month
showed high levels of [...]

June 27, 2010: Honesdale, PA USA
Aqua Pennsylvania has issued a precautionary
boil water notice for its customers in the
Honesdale system north of 4th Street and in the
Seelyville area. The precautionary boil order is in
place to accommodate maintenance work.
Aqua urges customers not to drink the water
unless it is boiled first.Boiled or bottled water
should be used for drinking, [...]

June 26, 2010: CALEDONIA, MI USA
Some residents near the Oak Creek power plant
have not had access to drinking water since last
August because their wells have been
contaminated.
They have been advised by the state Department
of Natural Resources to not drink or cook with
the well water because of higher-than-standard
levels of a dissolved metal called molybdenum.
The state groundwater standard [...]