Water purification

Water is the source of all life 1)_____ Earth, and yet 1.3 billion people do not have access 2)_____ safe drinking water. Furthermore, water is implicated 3)_____ 80 percent of all sickness and disease 4)_____ the World Health Organization. And less than 1 percent 5) _____ the world’s drinking water is actually fit 6)_____ drinking. If the world’s water were compressed 7)_____ a single gallon, only 4 ounces would be fresh. Of that, only two drops would be easily accessible, and only one would be suitable 8)_____ human use.

Researchers 9)_____ Queensland University of Technology use titanium nanoparticles to create an environmentally-friendly water purification system 10)_____ twice the efficiency of current materials (Figure 12.5).

Figure12.5 Water Purification System at Queensland University of Technology

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