{"id":5511,"date":"2010-05-14T08:38:40","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T15:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blitransfer.wpengine.com\/?p=5511"},"modified":"2017-06-21T14:21:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T19:21:37","slug":"common-cactus-solve-clean-water-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2010\/05\/14\/common-cactus-solve-clean-water-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Cactus Could Help Solve Clean Water Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"
As many as 15 people per minute die from a lack of clean water. Although 75% of the globe is covered in water, the amount of that water that is clean, fresh, drinkable water is very small<\/a> and the challenge of providing the whole population of the world with such water has been an unachievable task in modern society. Now, a new discovery is bringing much hope to this issue. A widely available cactus — prickly pear cactus<\/strong> — may hold a key to cheap, clean water. Norma Alcantar of the University of South Florida in Tampa and her research team have found that after extracting the gum that this cactus uses to store water and mixing it with water containing high levels of sediment or the bacterium Bacillus cereus, they are able to filter our 98% of the sediment or bacteria<\/strong>. The gum causes these contaminants to settle at the bottom.<\/p>\n The process for doing this in one’s home is very simple as well.<\/p>\n
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