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water purification News & Articles

Showing 11 posts that have the tag “water-purification”

a portable solar water purifier by a pond

How Solar-Powered, Mobile Water Purifiers Can Help Cities Cope With Bad Water

Quench Water & Solar is selling its solar-powered water purifiers to private owners as U.S. cities wrestle with clean drinking water issues

4 min read

Nanostructures Move From Water Purification to Uranium Extraction

Stanford researchers are getting a lot of mileage from nanomaterials by analyzing market needs

4 min read

A nanostructured molybdenum disulfide device can purify a water sample 50 times as fast as UV-only devices.

Nanostructured Device Purifies Water With Light

Molybdenum sulfide's optical properties shorten a water purification process from days to minutes

2 min read

Ashok Gadgil: The Humanitarian Inventor

His work on water purification, cookstoves, and arsenic removal has helped tens of millions of people worldwide

5 min read

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