'World's Most Useful Tree' Provides New Low-Cost Water Purification Method for Developing World

[Alchemica]

ScienceDaily (Mar. 14, 2010) — 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://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100303082804.htm

[Hashassian]

this world freaks me out.

On one hand this excellent story trying to purify water and on the other hand....

http://www.infowars.com:80/story-on-mystery-substance-distracts-from-fact-fluoride-is-a-deadly-killer/

the water in my town is about to be posioned in april.....THIS FUCKING SHITS ME!!!!

[tripsis]

Where did I read this recently? Was it posted here a couple of weeks back?

Anyway, it's a pretty amazing bit of research. More of this sort of thing actively needs to be undertaken and implemented.

[tripsis]

Found an interesting article on using Opuntia to purify water. Pretty old, but relevant.

Source.

Cactus too purifies water

Science News, Sept 17, 2005

Many Mexican communities have drinking water laced with unsafe levels of arsenic and unappealing amounts of sand and other solids. To make the water cleaner, Norma Alcantar, a chemical engineer at the University of South Florida in Tampa and her colleagues are working on an environmentally benign filtering process based on a plant found all over Mexico: the nopal cactus or prickly pear.

Latin American communities once used the cactus (Opuntia ficus indica) to filter water, says Alcantar. After boiling the edible plant, they dumped the pot water into a separate vessel containing drinking water, a practice that caused gritty particles to settle to the bottom. But this is "knowledge that is almost gone" in Mexican homes, she says.

Alcantar and her group suspected that the nopal could provide a solution for Mexican villages with contaminated ground water. Extracts of the cactus not only separate suspended solids from water but also sop up heavy metals dissolved in it.

To explore potential water-purifying applications, the scientists investigated the cactus' mucilage, the thick, gooey substance that enables the plant to store large amounts of water. The team knew that when added to untreated drinking water, this substance can precipitate ions, particles, and bacteria.

The researchers first separated the mucilage into its two main components--a liquid and a gel. Tests with the gel portion indicated that it alone can cause suspended solids to settle out of water. Moreover, it does so in only 5 minutes, a third of the time that aluminum sulfate takes to precipitate solids. That chemical is commonly used in water-treatment plants. In another test, the gel removed half of the arsenic in a sample of water after 36 hours. The researchers are planning to test how the liquid portion of the mucilage contributes to the water-purifying process.

Alcantar's team is also identifying the chemical structures of the extracts to figure out which molecules are responsible for the nopal's filtering might. One goal of the research, Alcantar says, is to find the optimal mucilage dosage for achieving the best water-purifying results.

Alcantar says that her group plans to design a cactus-based filtering system by next summer, to be tested in the Mexican city of Temamatla. The water there is gritty and tainted with arsenic, and the area has a bountiful supply of nopal.--A.C.

[ref1ect1ons]

@ hash, Flouride is great, there are many scientific journals that support this. Unfortunately if one 'crazy' scientist has a different finding they are quite understandably fired, for the good of science and preserving scientific facts. /end sarcasm/

Fluoride and the Brain: Dr Phyllis Mullenix was a neurotoxicologist at the Forsyth Dental Centre, an industry-funded research centre related to Harvard, where she had developed a new way of analyzing the behaviour patterns of animals given certain chemicals. When asked to study fluoride she refused at first because she believed it was harmless. But when she did, she found that very modest doses in lab animals produced disorders like Attention Deficit Disorder, hyperactivity and results akin to memory loss and IQ problems. She told the authorities that fluoridation was reducing the IQ of children. Within days of learning that her study was accepted for publication, Dr Mullinex was fired from Forsyth and has received no grants since to continue her work.

The orthodox view is that fluoridation is one of the top 10 achievements in the 20th Century.

http://www.fluoridealert.org/mullenix-interview.htm

Edited March 18, 2010 by ref1ect1ons

[bℓσωηG]

 

 

ah yes a chance for me to go on and on about fluoride lol, no i wont, but do you know fluoride was used by the nazis and russian armies to keep prisoners docile and compliant? oh noooo... thats not the reason the governments insists you have fluoride in yoouur drinking water , noooo.... its because its good for your teeth and the government loves your teeth, yees sir

[ref1ect1ons]

At the risk of this thread goin the way of the 'Huichoi harrassed by police' thread, I have to say that if this is me on flouride ...then fuck what would I be like off it. Maybe we can build a tolerance or something.

I'll just lmao if this turns into another huichoi thread, cause I could also go on about flouride and how it twist ur skeleton and shit too, but I wont. Man I love talking bout freeman and ufos and flouride and jordan maxwell and shiz with fellow aussies.

[Hashassian]

well april is our towns d-day for flouride. thousands of signed petitions, the big mafia boss up here even did the best he could to stop it.

I asked the previous mayor of our town if flouride had been a council discussion or decision. He said that this is bigger than local council, state and federal gov as the UN owns our water!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! our council even proposed to the state government for a referendum.......vic gov said no..........got to love democracy.

im going to invest in a hand full of non flouride water vending machines here. saving lives and a good money spinner me thinks!!

clean the 3rd worlds water and poison 1st worlds water??? got to love reptiles

[tripsis]

got to love reptiles

I truly hope that's not a reference to the reptilian entity conspiracy BS!

[mu!]

c'mon who doesnt like a bit of dmt reptillian overload BS every now and again

[ThunderIdeal]

the only problem i have with comparing human assholes to reptiles is that it's kind of offensive to reptiles, who only have the capacity to be reptiles.

it is really a metaphor to do with the evolution of vertebrate brains and the lack of mammal traits exhibited by our rulers.

[tripsis]

c'mon who doesnt like a bit of dmt reptillian overload BS every now and again

Definitely me.

I agree ThunderIdeal, but have you seen how far it gets taken? I mean seriosuly, the Royal Family are shapeshifters?!

[ThunderIdeal]

truth is stranger than fiction!

[bℓσωηG]

I usually draw the line at the reptillian agenda, there are many modern accounts from people who claim to have seen humanoid-type people whose skin and faces look like lizards and frogs with large protruding eyes. Jason Bishop , an investigator of the extraterrestrial phenomenon, says that the reptilians are mostly much taller than humans and are cold blooded like Earth reptiles. They appear to be far less emotionally sensitive than humans and most have great difficulty expressing love, though they are extremely intelligent and have very advanced technology. I must say that is an excellent description of the attitudes and behaviour of the Brotherhood who control the world today. The modern accounts of reptilians match the descriptions of many gods of the ancient world in the surviving texts and legends. Fluoride has an accumulative effect and calcifies the pineal gland scattering ones mind oh and if you think bottled water is the way to go be aware all natural spring water owned by Coca Cola add fluoride ...

I'll just lmao if this turns into another huichoi thread, cause I could also go on about flouride and how it twist ur skeleton and shit too, but I wont. Man I love talking bout freeman and ufos and flouride and jordan maxwell and shiz with fellow aussies.

LOL, we cant help ourselves ....damn truth serum

Edited March 21, 2010 by blowng

[vual]

c'mon who doesnt like a bit of dmt reptillian overload BS every now and again

 

lol

truth is stranger than fiction!

 

Very true, come 2012 i spose we will all find out ^_*.

Great technology but like most fantastic discovery's that actually help people, they are kept silent.

[Chiral]

Hey whats with all the reptilian bashing...I'll have you know they are very real and just the other I was hanging out with a few of em" One of them asked me to put $200 on Melbourne storm to win the wooden spoon.