Saturday 6 March 2010

Friday 5 March 2010

'Worlds Most Usefull Tree' Provides Low-Cost Water Purification Method

A low-cost water purification technique published in Current Protocols in Microbiology could help drastically reduce the incidence of waterborne disease in the developing world. The procedure, which uses seeds from the Moringa oleifera tree, can produce a 90.00% to 99.99% bacterial reduction in previously untreated water, and has been made free to download as part of access programs under John Wiley & Sons' Corporate Citizenship Initiative.

http://au.wiley.com/WileyCDA/PressRelease/pressReleaseId-70417.html

Monday 1 March 2010