NASA Becomes All the More Awesome: Cleansing Water

The average person lives three days without water. Here on this lovely planet we call Earth, we're surrounded by it, what we need to live is provided. Now imagine a temporary stay where there is no source of water what so ever, complete isolation.

This is one aspect astronauts living in the International Space Station have to deal with. They need clean water to survive, so how do you provide enough for them to live when they're in space for months at a time?

NASA wanted to find a way to both solve this problem, and apply it to life here. Teamed with NASA, the Umpqua Research Company (UCR) developed the Regenerable Biocide Delivery Unit. This could be applied to making water anywhere clean.

Because of this, Space Shuttle technology is being used to purify water in developing countries, and it helps cleanse water for thousands of people.

Author: Elaine M. Marconi

Title: Water, Water Everywhere!
Journal: NASA Feature
Date: May 2004