The Christchurch couple which invented a water filtration system for use by intetrnational aid agencies say they standing by their product despite tthe hospitalization of two journalists who tested it.
Four reporters from The New Zealand Herald, TVNZ and TV3 suffered serious stomach problems, with two of them requiring emergency treatment in hospital.
All four were covering the launch of Russell and Sue Kelly’s water filtration system which is designed to turn polluted water and raw sewage into drinking water.
Ms Kelly told Radio New Zealand the sample may have inadvertently become contaminated, but she stands by the effectiveness of the filtration system.
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PLANNING bosses have given the go-ahead for a disused filter station on the edge of Ilkley Moor to be transformed into a home.
Despite objections and an alternative parish council plan to make the Wells Road building into a tourist visitor centre, members of the Keighley Area Planning Panel followed a recommendation by a planning officer to allow the Yorkshire Water plan.
The filter station used to treat spring water running off the moor but stricter laws governing drinking water quality rendered the station redundant.
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A new kind of water cleaning equipment has been made in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), the country’s official media reported Wednesday.
The magnetizing water filter, which “consists of filter bar, permanent magnet, air-tight gear and others,” was developed by the technical preparation center of the Electrical Machinery Industrial Management Bureau under the Ministry of Machine-Building Industry.
According to the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), this equipment can “completely” eliminate the pathogenic germ and provide clean water.
Furthermore, it is useful for prevention and treatment of “diseases in nerves, blood vessel and digestive system and skin,” said the KCNA, adding that it also has a special effect “for health and the prevention of aging.”
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