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Scientific American, 2012
Two charts are presented on water consumption, including one showing water use for the top 10 freshwater consumers, including China, India, and the U.S., and one showing the largest net importers and exporters of virtual water, including Great Britain, Germany, and Brazil.
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Two charts are presented on water consumption, including one showing water use for the top 10 freshwater consumers, including China, India, and the U.S., and one showing the largest net importers and exporters of virtual water, including Great Britain, Germany, and Brazil.
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In Water or in the Presence of Water?
ChemInform, 2006AbstractChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 200 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract, please click on HTML or PDF.
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Scientific American, 2015
The article looks at a model car developed at Columbia University which is powered by evaporation. The vehicle incorporates plastic tapes covered in bacterial spores, which absorb moisture and expand and then contract, creating torque in its rotary engine. Scientists have used the same technology to power light-emitting-diode (LED) lights.
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The article looks at a model car developed at Columbia University which is powered by evaporation. The vehicle incorporates plastic tapes covered in bacterial spores, which absorb moisture and expand and then contract, creating torque in its rotary engine. Scientists have used the same technology to power light-emitting-diode (LED) lights.
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Abundance, Control and Water! Water! Water!
Food, Culture & Society, 2016Working in the workplace requires a labor all of its own. In addition to the work of simply provisioning food, the twenty-five university office workers interviewed in this interdisciplinary study also put considerable labor into developing and maintaining complex systems for making choices about what, how and where to eat while working. These systems,
Carolyn Thomas +3 more
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Water, mineral waters and health
Clinical Nutrition, 2006The authors focus on water resources and the use of mineral waters in human nutrition, especially in the different stages of life, in physical activity and in the presence of some morbid conditions. Mineral water is characterized by its purity at source, its content in minerals, trace elements and other constituents, its conservation and its healing ...
PETRACCIA, LUISA +4 more
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Water to People, or People to Water?
Groundwater, 2010In providing details of my life, I take the opportunity to share my thoughts about water and people, especially in the arid regions. I was born in Brighton on the south coast of England on February 1, 1935. My father was a grocer in Bognor Regis, to the west of Brighton, where my family lived until I was 18 years old.
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2009
The water uptake and the water supply do not directly affect the mineral absorption of plants. However, many connections exist between the management of minerals and water.
Sonneveld, C., Voogt, W.
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The water uptake and the water supply do not directly affect the mineral absorption of plants. However, many connections exist between the management of minerals and water.
Sonneveld, C., Voogt, W.
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Produced water, money water, living water: Anthropological perspectives on water and fracking
WIREs Water, 2017Advances in hydraulic fracturing (aka “fracking”) technologies and horizontal drilling have enabled the extraction of previously unviable unconventional oil and gas resources. However, as global environmental concerns have become more prominent and unconventional oil and gas developments have moved ever closer to residential centers, public scrutiny of
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Global water resources and the role of groundwater in a resilient water future
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2023Bridget R Scanlon +2 more
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