• Many schools in Sub-Saharan Africa have limited, or no, access to basic services such as drinking water, toilets and electricity.

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

  • In the Syrian city of Busra, a video shows a man gathering snow in a bucket to save as drinking water.

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  • It aims to establish a platform for exchange of knowledge with respect to methods for characterisation of colloidal and particulate matter in these systems and to cover the technological aspects of particulate matter in different water treatment processes such as drinking water, wastewater and landfill polluted waters.

    UNESCO: Water Portal | Water Events Worldwide

  • Many of Guatemala's rural indigenous communities lack infrastructure basics such as clean drinking water, sanitation and electricity.

    NPR: Guatemala Project Builds Tech from the Ground Up

  • Pushing other essential infrastructure, such as clean drinking water, sewer systems and mass transportation, gets caught in a similar chicken-and-egg syndrome as the residents desperately want to join the grid but gatos of all kinds undermine the economics of the arrangement.

    FORBES: Life In the Favela: Gatos Vs. The Working Class

  • Some Oreck employees are still unaccounted for, and the plant is still trucking in basic supplies, such as food and drinking water.

    NPR: Vacuum Maker Oreck to Stay after Katrina

  • Adverts that suggest a benefit for the family seem to work, such as that drinking bottled water while doing tai-chi in the park makes you a more energetic grandmother.

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  • These challenges include such acute development needs as installing piped drinking water for households, deploying high-quality irrigation systems with locally-accessible replacement parts, and using the latest mobile technologies for banking, sharing vital health data, paying salaries, and checking commodity prices.

    WHITEHOUSE: Science and Technology an Indispensible Part of U.S. Development Policy Worldwide | The White House

  • Janin highlights isolated communities in Africa and South America as well as remote islands in Asia that have little or no access to safe drinking water as potential beneficiaries of the technology.

    CNN: Wind turbine creates water from thin air

  • "Using these plants, we will be able to remove radioactive nuclides from the water and make it clean for irrigation purposes or even as a source of drinking water, " says Slavik Dushenkov of Phytotech.

    CNN: Flower power

  • The monitoring group found a "strong possibility" that the fainting was caused by chemical exposure and cited excessive overtime and insufficient drinking water as other factors.

    WSJ: Apparel Retailers Confront Tough Options

  • The monitoring group found a "strong possibility" that the fainting was caused by chemical exposure and cited excessive overtime and insufficient drinking water as contributing factors.

    WSJ: Apparel Retailers Confront Tough Options

  • The nearby Sikalima stream is another cause of friction between the Chinese-run mine and the cattle-herding community in the area, who rely on it as a source of drinking water.

    BBC: China in Zambia: Jobs or exploitation?

  • Some of the interactions are well known already, such as how drinking too much water and interrupt sleep by waking you up to use the bathroom, or how consuming heavy and spicy foods can keep you up, but there may be less apparent effects as well.

    CNN: Does your diet influence how well you sleep?

  • Mr. DEREK SCHEER (Clean Wisconsin): Because it's such a large portion of the world's freshwater and it is a thirsty world, there is more and more concern that folks will be coming after the Great Lakes as a source of drinking water outside of the Great Lakes basin.

    NPR: Governors Meet on Access to Great Lakes

  • The website HowStuffWorks has a fascinating article about RISUG that covers its genesis as a method to purify drinking water.

    FORBES: Are Men Ready for a Contraception Injection?

  • Venezuela said it was sending a military plane with food, medicine and drinking water, as well as a team of 50 rescue workers.

    BBC: International aid efforts for Haiti gather pace

  • The study also cited other factors as contributing to the plight of the urban poor such as improper sanitation, contaminated drinking water, and urban pollution.

    BBC: Indian children 'malnourished'

  • He said his review focuses in particular on the relationship of fracking to the health impacts of drinking water, as well as other areas such as air quality and community impacts.

    WSJ: NY health chief: Longer gas-drilling study needed

  • The monitors also serve as collection stations for precipitation, drinking water, and milk samples.

    FORBES: Inspector General Faults EPA Radiation Monitoring

  • But if the well is not cemented properly, the gas leaks out into the other units, particularly drinking water aquifers, as it comes back up the well.

    FORBES: The Fracking Solution Is A Good Cement Job

  • Mr. HADJII NURI (Cleric): (Through Translator) Two months ago a kid who was two years old, as a result of drinking this unhealthy water, he had diarrhea and vomiting.

    NPR: With Vote Looming, Afghans Look for Progress

  • In Newport, 20 extra officers were patrolling in the city centre and Gwent Police were working with Christian charity Team Challenge to distribute pink handbags containing leaflets on safe drinking, as well as bottled water.

    BBC: RELATED BBC SITES

  • The USC Hubli Water and Health Team team hopes to shed light on this threatening issue, as confronting the challenge of dirty drinking water is a "gateway" step towards achieving measured, sustainable improvements in a wide array of serious health related issues.

    CNN: Students work to improve water quality in India

  • He says that his party's campaign will take up issues such as the shortages of electricity and drinking water in the state, and adds that the main theme of the election is the caste of the candidate, rather than the communal divide.

    ECONOMIST: Indian democracy

  • Local residents and livestock were not at risk as the river was not used for drinking water, officials added.

    BBC: China pulls 1,000 dead ducks from Sichuan river

  • Communities around the world are affected by the manufacturing of these products, not only because they are growing ever fatter as a result of so much sugar in their lives, but also because the use of water for sugar drinks means communities often go without clean drinking water (which Coke and other companies then sells to them as bottled water).

    FORBES: The Hidden Costs Of That Soda Pop In Your Hands

  • At Goliad the uranium ore is located just 400 feet deep within the same rock as a groundwater reservoir that ranchers tap for drinking water, both for themselves and their livestock.

    FORBES: Energy's Latest Battleground: Fracking For Uranium

  • Beijing Times says authorities must also act quickly to introduce acceptable quality standards for bottled drinking water to allay public fears about contamination from deteriorating air and water quality as well as polluting industries.

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