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AquaPrix is now Taylor Made Water Systems

Please be assured, this transition certainly doesn’t mean that you’re losing the water service that you enjoy and trust. The operations of AquaPrix will become part of Waterlogic’s Bay Area company Taylor Made Water Systems Inc., a service organization with 14 years exceeding clients workplace water needs. We will continue to serve you out of [...]

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Health Problems May Be Lurking in Water Filters

Current research ongoing on at Virginia Technology University is looking at NTM (Nontuberculous Mycobacteria) bacteria growth on GAC filters. These filters do not remove or filter out bacterial cells – actually according to research being done at the Falkinham Lab the granular activated carbon used in common water filters bind compounds the bacteria love to [...]

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San Francisco to Require Bottle Filling Stations

The city of San Francisco, the first in the nation to ban plastic bags in supermarkets, has introduced a new legislation to require building owners and developers to install tap water filling stations on any premises that require a drinking fountain. Aiming for a January 1st, 2013 effective date, the idea of using these stations [...]

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A Brief Education of Water

A Brief Education on Water

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Santa Cruz and Soquel Collaborate on Desalination Plant

Supplemental Water Resources Needed Due to limited resources and increasing demands, the City of Santa Cruz Water Department (SCWD) and Soquel Creek Water District (SqCWD) have been collaborating to conserve, protect and create reliable water resources. Both municipal organizations have implemented stringent conservation and curtailment requirements to maximize efficient water use, but the region needs [...]

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Last Call at the Oasis

Last Call At The Oasis

Last Call is a Wake Up Call “Last Call at the Oasis” is a new documentary that presents a powerful argument for why the global water crisis will be the central issue facing our world this century. Illuminating the vital role water plays in our lives, exposing the defects in the current system and depicting communities [...]

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Loyola University Students Vote to Ban Bottled Water Sales on Campus

 Anti-Bottle Water Campaign After a year long educational “UnCap Loyola” campaign, a majority of students passed a referendum to phase out bottled water on Loyola’s Chicago campuses. The campign was led by the Student Environmental Alliance in partnership with Loyola’s Unified Student Governemtn Association. “We consider the sale of bottled water on campus in conflict [...]

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@WalmartLabs Crowdsourcing Choice: Charitable Bottled Water

Walmart Crowdsourcing Project To help entrepreneurs launch their products, Walmart’s start-up like group called @WalmartLabs has launched a crowdsourcing project called Get on the Shelf.  Get on the Shelf allows consumers to choose among competing products to launch using Social Media tools.  The first contest included 4,000 products from 19 categories.  To help put their favorite [...]

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Water Out of Thin Air

In many parts of the world, there is precious little drinking water.  Yet even in the driest desert there is water in the air.  Enter the French engineering firm Eole Water.  Eole has developed a turbine that provides renewable drinking water and electricity from nothing more than the wind.  A new prototype is undergoing testing [...]

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Camelbak All Clear—60 Seconds to Purified Water. Anywhere.

Safe Drinking Water On-The-Go Camelbak has a great product for people on-the-go—the Camelbak “All Clear” system.  Whether you are trekking in Nepal or hiking the Grand Tetons, you can now safely drink purified water, anywhere. When Getting Sick Is Not An Option The heart of the Camelbak All Clear solution is a built-in UV light [...]

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