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. … Continue reading Americans don’t like the taste of water

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… RT @core77: GoogleMaps, Dirt Roads + Drinking Water. @JanChip shares thoughts on logistics … Continue reading Thoughts on rural research

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 … Continue reading A DIY Kit To Determine If Your Water Is Contaminated

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 … Continue reading The best water filter for field use

Whole Water Systems: replace your pool chemicals with a natural system

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. Related articles Are There Benefits To Using A Salt Water Chlorination System In Your … Continue reading Whole Water Systems: replace your pool chemicals with a natural system