But Ruckus did something last week that many of the dog-roaming, cucumber water-drinking, pool-table playing startups in Silicon Valley will never do: It went public.
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But no large, well-designed studies have found that anything but time -- and drinking water to treat dehydration -- can ease the aftermath of too much alcohol consumption.
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Water itself - for drinking and for agricultural purposes - is not a single issue.
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There are lots of small initiatives, either at the user end -- e.g. turning off stand-by switches, drinking tap water -- or the supply end -- e.g. wind energy, tidal energy.
Although primarily produced for industrial use, the water is purified to drinking-quality using dual membrane microfiltration and reverse osmosis technologies, and marketed as bottled water for human consumption under the consumer brand NEWater.
And it does what it says on the tin: so far, the billboard has produced over 9, 000 litres of drinking water - 96 litres a day.
The natural gas industry has argued that flawed casing practices used while drilling shale-gas wells were responsible for methane contamination in drinking water supplies surrounding shale-gas wells.
However, a spokesman for the Denver-based American Water Works Association said 85% of its 4, 200 members -- which are responsible for 67% of the drinking water available in the U.S. -- had completed their Y2K remediation efforts by July.
Seeking a drink of water from a caribou wallow resulted in dysentery, and drinking water from a free-flowing artesian well resulted in being killed.
But fracking occurs below drinking-water aquifers, separated by a mile or more of impenetrable rock.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's drinking-water regulations require that all samples test negative for E.coli.
Many of the soda beverages from the dispensers fell below U.S. drinking-water standards, according to the findings.
In recent years, U.S. researchers have found residues of more than 100 pharmaceutical drugs in drinking-water supplies, including antibiotics, hormones, contraceptives and steroids.
According to a 2006 Unicef report, more than 125 million children under age 5, most from developing countries, live in households without access to a clean drinking-water source.
Drinking water and non-potable water stations at various locations (wells are the norm except in the town center).
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Staying well hydrated is the most effective way to prevent a hangover- drinking plenty of water throughout the day, and avoiding excess amounts of caffeine, especially high octane energy drinks loaded with plenty of caffeine which lead to loss of water from your body.
Drinking ice-cold water may also help to boost your overall metabolic rate as well.
Part of the benefit, everyone agrees, is that there are huge benefits to not being dirt-poor: clean drinking water, good medical care and safe housing, to name a few.
I'm going to take a look at some of the regulatory rollbacks of the Bush administration, such as the one that lowers the limit of cancer-causing arsenic in drinking water.
"Cholera can be treated quickly and people can get better quickly but the challenge is ensuring they don't get re-infected and clean drinking water needs to be available, " he said.
Additional key priorities in her role included organizing aggressive cleanups of hazardous waste sites with a goal of redevelopment, new jobs and urban revitalization as well as ensuring the long-term protection of drinking water supplies.
Delhi draws three-quarters of its drinking water from the Yamuna river, into which the city dumps quantities of sewage, almost all of it untreated, to join a cocktail of farm chemicals and industrial effluents, including arsenic.
Just outside Lima, Peru, a billboard provides drinking water to whoever needs it - mainly, its neighbours.
And landowners should seek assurance that drinking water will be tested pre- and post-drilling, with any adverse effects remediated.
In any case, preventive measures can reduce the possibility of all these problems -- from making sure one's vaccines are up-to-date to drinking only bottled water.
It has also branched into interesting side businesses, such as a technology called dragon-fly that can distill drinking water from the natural moisture in the air.
Chen Guihua, a peasant, and her parents-in-law, both in their 60s, walk more than 5 and a half miles most days--over two mountain ridges--for two buckets of drinking water.
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.
Many companies, with well-established international logistical capacities, are also uniquely placed to contribute directly in getting food, drinking water and medical care to the survivors of the catastrophe and in re-establishing sanitation and communication.
Damage to the liver and kidneys has been observed in rats chronically (long-term) exposed in their drinking water.
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