Easily digestible tech news... http://www.techdirt.com/ en-us http://www.techdirt.com/images/td-88x31.gifhttp://www.techdirt.com/ Fri, 9 Mar 2012 17:00:00 PST Michael Ho http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100212/1139528146/dailydirt-fresh-water-demand.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100212/1139528146/dailydirt-fresh-water-demand.shtml

The United Nations held a design competition to create ads that help raise awareness of water conservation efforts. The winners will be picked in June. [url]

A team of software engineers created a simulation that concludes it's possible to tow an iceberg from the waters around Newfoundland to the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa. The expense of actually doing this, however, has not been shown to be worthwhile by anyone yet. [url]

IBM's Almaden Research Center is developing new water filtration membranes for purification processes -- which could be useful for desalination and other water reclamation. The trick is getting water purified without using a lot of energy to do so.... [url]

A guy from Chile was arrested for stealing a 5-ton piece of a glacier -- that he was going to sell on the black market for making designer ice cubes. Glacier ice just tastes way better than the ice that comes out of a plastic tray because it's been aged for millions of years. [url]

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]]> urls-we-dig-up http://www.techdirt.com/comment_rss.php?sid=20100212/1139528146 Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:00:00 PDT Michael Ho http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110726/18173715268/dailydirt-safe-drinking-water.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110726/18173715268/dailydirt-safe-drinking-water.shtml

Banana peels have actually been proven to effectively filter out various harmful metals from water. They don't kill bacteria, though, and stuffing them into Brita bottles probably won't work, either. [url]

Desalination should be a "last resort" for water purification, but it's been getting more widely used despite its costs. Desalination technology is improving, but it still uses a lot of energy. [url]

Perhaps the real last resort, though, should be towing an iceberg to where you need fresh water. A 30 million ton iceberg could provide enough drinking water for about about 500,000 people -- for a year. [url]

A bunch of companies are promoting water conservation with the slogan: "Wasting Water is Weird." Will quirky viral videos help people to conserve water? [url]

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