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Microbes Beware

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Michael A. Greenwood

Your throat is parched, and you could drink a gallon of water, but you’ve just arrived at a faraway destination where the local water quality comes with no guarantees. Do you: 1) Gulp down the water anyway and risk days of gut-wrenching agony and sickness in some hotel room? 2) Go without water and slowly dehydrate? 3) Pull out a handheld device, zap the hordes of invisible microbes, and then drink to your heart’s content without a care about giardia’s revenge? UV light is used to neutralize a host of microbes commonly found in tainted water. Courtesy of Hydro-Photon...Read full article

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