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Huge reservoir of frozen water discovered on Mars Posted: 1 year ago by BrownTrout
A giant subsurface reservoir of nearly pure water ice has been discovered on the Southern pole of Mars. It contains enough water to blanket the planet 30 feet deep if melted.
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Hope for Water on Mars Dims with Sharp New Images Posted: 11 months ago by AutumnLotus
New images obtained by a sharp-eyed Martian satellite reveal that some Red Planet features once thought to have been carved by flowing water were in fact created by other processes.
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Get off the Bottle Posted: 10 months ago by super
Water... natures best way to quench your thirst any day. With all of the benefits that water offers, the use of "convenient" plastic bottles may be making water bad for our health.
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What is water conservation costing you? Posted: 7 months ago by tigertony
Cities are raising water rates to offset the loss of revenue caused by using less water.
Can anyone say Catch-22?
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Straw that Doubles as Emergency Water Filter Posted: 6 months ago by MUPpetMAKer
Contains a special membrane that cleans 99.999999% of contaminates. Cleans 500 liters of water before going bad.
I almost want to get one, go to a local stream, scoop a glass, and take a sip.
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Everybody Has a Water Buffalo Posted: 1 year ago by Ellz
How'd they get them? I don't know, but everybody's got a water buffaloooooooo...
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Water Gun Alarm Clock Posted: 5 months ago by muppetmaker
Having a hard time waking up in the morning? Enjoy over complicated how to projects that involve soldering?
GOOD NEWS! Make your own alarm clock water gun device.
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Bottled Water - Bad to the Last Drop Posted: 2 years ago by videoguy
"This simple experiment seemed to confirm that most people cannot tell the difference between tap water and bottled water. Yet they buy it anyway - and in enormous quantities."
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Sun's Temper Blamed for Loss of Water on Mars Posted: 12 months ago by AutumnLotus
Mars was wet in its early history, but today it appears bone dry other than ice below the surface and at the poles. Astronomers have long wondered where all the water went. The water might have been blown into space long ago by strong gusts of solar winds, new satellite observations suggest.
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Mother awarded £800,000 after 'six pints of water a day detox diet' left her brain damaged Posted: 4 weeks ago by maxriter
A dieter suffered permanent brain damage after being advised to drink six pints of water a day and cut salt intake to lose weight. Dawn Page, 52, has been awarded £810,000 in damages from her nutritionist, although the practitioner denies fault.
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Toilet Water Cleaner Than Drinking Fountain Posted: 1 year ago by punthe
Middle School student Kyleray Katherman had a hunch something was amiss with the school's drinking fountain water. And right he was.
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Drought-stricken Georgia says it will sue over water Posted: 10 months ago by dollyllama
Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue had said Wednesday the state would seek an injunction forcing the Corps to stem the flow of water from Lake Lanier, Atlanta's primary water source.
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Spitzer Finds Organics and Water Where New Planets May Grow Posted: 5 months ago by AutumnLotus
Researchers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered large amounts of simple organic gases and water vapor in a possible planet-forming region around an infant star, along with evidence that these molecules were created there. They've also found water in the same zone around two other young stars.
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New Discovery on Mars: Ephemeral Polar Water Ice Mapped Posted: 6 months ago by AutumnLotus
After decades of studying the climate conditions of Mars, scientists have recently made a breakthrough observation. Adrian Brown's team found a substantial amount of ephemeral (short lived) water ice in the polar regions of Mars.
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Plumbing blunder leaves Hiroshima U. students drinking toilet water since 1993 Posted: 1 year ago by unoriganl
A plumbing blunder resulted in water for toilet flushing being sent to drinking taps for more than a decade.
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Forget Evian or Vitaminwater. The latest beverage trend: 'Holy Water.' Posted: 8 months ago by dollyllama
Inspired, perhaps, by vitamin and energy waters, a number of new companies have begun making more explicit claims: their water doesn't just promote good health, it actually makes you good. Holy Drinking Water, produced by a California-based company called Wayne Enterprises, is blessed in the warehouse by an Anglican or Roman Catholic priest (after a thorough background check).
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Mars Rover finds "puddles" of water on planet surface Posted: 1 year ago by BrownTrout
Although many dispute that the atmosphere can support the presence of liquid water, these photos make an interesting case for it!
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Water Experts Find Earth Warming, Rainfall Linked to Sun Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A team of water experts says the pattern of droughts and floods in South Africa shows our global warming was triggered by the variability of the sun’s irradiance rather than by human-emitted CO2. They say variations in South African rainfall patterns are keyed to periodic reversals of the sun’s magnetic field—and to the constantly changing distance between the sun and the earth as both move through space.
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Sink Positive Posted: 8 months ago by misswinkle
A sink that mounts on top of your toilet(s), running clean water automatically as the toilet bowl fills after a flush. Ingenious way of conserving water. Website found here.
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Water making US Troops in Iraq Sick Posted: 5 months ago by suebe
Water supplied by a division of Haliburton, Dick Cheney's old company, was dirty, smelly and caused skin and intestinal problems.
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