Friday, 10. November 2006
Topic: SCIENCE - on November 10, 2006 at 9:22:00 AM CET
Cheap nano knowhow cleans arsenic from water
Contaminated water that causes illness and fatal poisoning among millions of people worldwide has been made safe to drink using tiny particles created by nanotechnologists. Scientists at Rice University in Houston are adapting the technique to make it cheap and simple enough to use in developing countries such as Bangladesh, where 57 million people drink water from wells with dangerously high levels of arsenic.
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