Throughout the densely-populated country of Bangladesh, a lack of access to clean drinking water is responsible for a variety of debilitating and often-lethal infections. Soon, however, residents ...

Scientists have found a way to make clean drinking water using algae. Teams in Bangladesh and Sweden harvested the organism locally and extracted what they call cellulose nano-fibers to create paper ...

Above-ground pools offer summertime fun and relief from the heat, but only if the water is kept free from harmful algae and bacteria with an above-ground pool filter. Above-ground water filters are ...

Clean drinking water could be more widely available in Bangladesh following the development of a point-of-use filter made from the cellulose nanofibres found in a form of algae. Paper filter made from ...

Washington D.C. [USA], Aug 19 (ANI): A team of scientists from Uppsala and Dhaka University, has shown that a locally grown and previously unexploited green macro algae species could be used to ...

The paper filter has demonstrated excellent virus and bacteria removal capacity both in the lab and in real-life tests. The scientists believe that with further development, the paper filter produced ...

FAYETTEVILLE -- Nanotechnology could play a large role in efforts to remove toxins from bodies of water after harmful algal blooms. The developer first must figure out how to bring it to scale.