News Stories relating to "water"

If you want to find planets that find harbor intelligent life, you need to do what the early explorers did right here on earth: look for water.

Since the early 1990s astronomers have discovered more than 300 planets orbiting stars other than our sun, nearly all of them gas giants like Jupiter. The new generation of powerful NASA space...

One of the biggest problems facing the world in the future will be getting enough water. If we could just think of a way to remove the salt from the ocean, we would be surrounded by drinking water. Lots of scientists would like to figure out how to do just that. Now the inventor of the Segway says he has invented a machine that can take nearly...

Too much salt isn't good for us, which is why researchers are working so hard to figure out how to remove it from water so we can drink the water from our oceans. Salt has gotten a bad reputation, since doctors warn us it can lead to high blood pressure. But other scientists say that, just like corn-fed beef, the problem isn't the salt itself,...

In the future we may fight a war in space over who controls the moon and access to its valuable Helium 3 fuel, but here on Earth we will probably be fighting over who owns not oil, but water. Global warming, which can lead to droughts, makes this situation even more dangerous.

In the Independent, John Reid outlines the main areas where...

Fish with both male and female sexual tissue have beendiscovered near wastewater treatment plants on the SouthPlatte River and Boulder Creek in Colorado. And it's beendiscovered that utilities across the country have been lyingfor years about the lead levels in their drinking water.Biologist John Woodling says, ''This is the first thing thatI'...

If you buy Coca-Cola's Dasani brand bottled water in London, you're drinking water from the city's public supply?the same water you can get out of a faucet for free.

Trevor Datson writes that this is true of many other bottled waters as well. Canadean, an independent beverage research company, discovered that two out of every five...

What should we do with old prescription medicines? The pharmacy won't take them back, and most charities won't take them either. Most people flush them down the toilet, not realizing that they end up in the water we drink, so that we're "taking" lots of medicines that haven't been prescribed for us.

Water treatment processes remove...

While Iraq struggles to provide drinking water to its citizens, it turns out we?re having the same problems right here in the U.S., due to aging pipes and outdated treatment plants. Many water treatment plants use century-old technology that can't clean up modern contaminants. Water pipes are old too, and in some cities they date back 100 years...