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unusual facts about Water purification


Bengkayang Regency

A water processing plant has been developed, so the population can enjoy access to clean water.


Strychnos

--are these different names for the same plant?--> can be ground and used as a coagulant to purify water; or they may be rubbed against the inside walls of the earthenware water containers.

Vassar Haiti Project

These art sales provide the primary means of funding for initiatives in education, health care, water access and purification, and reforestation in Chermaitre, Haiti, a mountain village in the Nord-Ouest Department of Haiti.


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C-ration

The brown butcher paper accessory pack contained sugar tablets, halazone water purification tablets (for a brief period in 1945), a flat wooden spoon, a piece of candy-coated chewing gum, 3 "short" sample 3-packs or one "long" sample 9-pack of commercial-grade cigarettes and a book of 20 cardboard moisture-resistant matches, a paper-wrapped P-38 can opener printed with instructions for its proper use, and several sheets of toilet paper.

Environmental issues in Austria

The water resources fund of the Ministry for Buildings and Technology distributed more than $20 billion for canalization and waste-water purification plants between 1959 and the early 1980s; the Danube and the Mur have been the special focus of efforts to improve water quality.

France–Papua New Guinea relations

In November 2007, Papua New Guinea's Oro Province was struck by cyclone Guba, and France provided humanitarian aid in the form of medicine, water purification products, food and clothing for victims with the assistance of the Armed Forces of New Caledonia (FANC) and in the context of the FRANZ agreement.

Hugo Thiemann

Among the new product sectors proposed by Thiemann was drinking water purification and distribution as well as the concept of Nespresso for ready-made premium coffee.

Jardine Water Purification Plant

The Jardine Water Purification Plant, formerly the Central District Filtration Plant, is the largest capacity water filtration plant in the world, located at 1000 E. Ohio Street north of Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois.

Lester Wunderman

Wunderman brought engineers to Mali to help the Dogon people build water catchments and instruct them in water purification.

Saud bin Saqr al Qasimi

RAK- CAM is envisioned to become a flagship for advanced Materials science research in the Middle East that addresses critical issues in areas such as alternative energy sources, construction, water purification and environmental preservation.

Swedish response to Hurricane Katrina

On September 2, awaiting a formal request from the U.S. State Department, the Rescue Service Agency prepared a Hercules cargo aircraft filled with three complete GSM systems, first aid kits, blankets, ready-to-eat meals, generators, and 2 large water purification plants.

Umpqua Research Company

On April 12, 2007, URC was inducted into the Space Foundation's Space Technology Hall of Fame for its contributions to the microbial check valve (MCV) technology that is used in the water purification system on the Space Shuttle.

William Nichols

William Ripley Nichols (1847–1886), chemist and leading authority on water purification