When it comes to making questionable water sources potable, the best water purification tablets are a handy and reliable way to kill potentially dangerous microorganisms in water and therefore make it ...

Citing humanitarian reasons, the Israeli Finance Ministry recently gave the green light for a subsidiary of Israel Chemicals – which is owned by the Israeli company but is based in Ireland – to sell ...

The Marine Corps is testing a new Individual Water Purification System designed to filter out bacteria and viruses. Currently, Marines are issued a two-staged system consisting of water purification ...

(Nanowerk News) PureMadi, a nonprofit University of Virginia organization, has invented a simple ceramic water purification tablet. Called MadiDrop, the tablet – developed and extensively tested at ...

VICENZA, ITALY - "Water, water, everywhere;" but it’s not safe to drink. That’s a scenario that many U.S. Army Africa personnel traveling to the continent face. When traveling to Africa, USARAF ...

Up until now, adventure travelers heading to places where water is questionable had few choices: bring a UV-light-equipped sterilizing pen, a hand-pump filter that takes time and energy or chlorine- ...

ROANOKE COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - The Virginia Department of Health along with the Western Virginia Water Authority advised residents of Mountain View and Upper Toddsbury to boil their water or use bottled ...

Water is the most important consideration in any adventure. Unless you want to be lugging around liters and liters of H2O, or you have the water retention capacities of a camel, you’ll need a plan for ...

Scientists and engineers have created a hydrogel tablet that can rapidly purify contaminated water. One tablet can disinfect a liter of river water and make it suitable for drinking in an hour or less ...

Nowadays, we all get our water from various supplies. The most common in developing countries might be boreholes supplying water from deep in the ground while government-provided pipe-borne purified ...