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Eco Factor: Non-electric portable water purifier. Every day, thousands of people die from lack of access to clean water. With over 80% of all diseases being related to water in some way or the other, designers and manufacturers are trying to...

Eco Factor: Solar-powered system extracts water from humid air. Access to clean drinking water is not as common as people living in urban areas think it to be. With billions of people thirsty for water, inventors had to design systems that can...

Eco Factor: Osmosis-based systems to provide drinking water from seas. About 71% of our planet is covered with water, but still the water crisis looms large. The reason being that out of the total amount of water present in the world, about 97.2%..

Eco Factor: Human-powered water pumps can solve the water crisis in developing and underdeveloped countries. If scientists are to be believed, then water was the first and the most important resource that finally led to life on our planet. What...

Eco Factor: Water filter made from 95% recycled materials. If you live in a developing country where access to drinking water is not that easy, then Z-Pitcher might just be something that you were waiting for all this time. The $40 filter is made.

Eco Factor: Recycled shipping container to be used as waste water treatment plant. The unavailability of pure drinkable water claims hundreds of lives each day in developing countries. Some children, especially girls, are not able to attend...

EcoFactor: Device generates fresh drinking water from air. With the reserves of fresh water going extinct, gadget designers are now focused on finding new ways to generate fresh drinking water indoors. Element Four seems to get a possible solution.

Storm water is a natural source of water which gets contaminated due to the excessive pollution levels. With an ever menacing threat to drinking water resources, the Australian government is planning to recycle storm water for drinking purposes....

It may seem to be weird, but a day might come when your packaged drinking water is recycled urine. If NASA is successful in its tests, you may end up drinking recycled urine. The recycling of urine to drinking water is part of a larger project for...

Bid a good bye to the cumbersome existing technology used to detect cyanide in drinking water. Scientists have come up with a new method - a cyanide sensor -- that is capable of overcoming those disadvantages of the conventional technologies used for the.