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10/31/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

Conserving water: Filter for power plants will allow them to reduce, reuse, recycle their demand for freshwater

Power plants are the country’s largest consumer of freshwater, with daily use coming to 500 billion gallons a day or 50 percent of the national freshwater use. Researchers from Albuquerque’s Sandia National Laboratories are working to change that with a filter — specifically, a filter for silica. According to ScienceDaily.com, the enormous freshwater consumption of […]

10/28/2017 / By Janine Acero

Dehydrated children: Kids are drinking about one quarter of the water they should be, according to new study

Children are drinking less water than what is recommended, with some even going through an entire school day with just one glass of water consumed, a new study reveals. Guidelines suggest that four- to eight-year-olds should have five glasses (one liter) of water a day; seven to eight glasses (1.5 liters) for nine- to 13-year-old children; […]

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