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Low-tech water wand finds contaminated drinking water

from Scientific American

Low-tech water wand finds contaminated drinking water Scientific American Municipal water can be contaminated by electronic waste and other sources of heavy metals — but collecting, chemically preserving and transporting samples to laboratories for testing is challenging for remote communities. To streamline the process, Emily Hanhauser, a mechanical engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and her colleagues created a low-tech sample-collection device that costs less than two dollars to make. READ MORE

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