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BOTTLED WATER. "A report by Food And Water Watch says that almost half of all bottled water is derived from tap water. 47.8% (in 2009), to be exact. A 2009 Gallup poll said that 84% of people worry a “great deal” or a “fair amount’ about polluted drinking water." And tap water is barely regulated. http://lnkd.in/dvmGAsD View in LinkedIn

WHY ARE CONSUMERS BUYING BOTTLED WATER? Bottled water is virtually unregulated and has no assurances of quality. If ever there was an indicator of the enormous public distrust of municipal water, it is this strong trend. http://lnkd.in/dDkmndD View in LinkedIn

LARGEST SOURCE OF FRESH WATER IN EARTH. "The Great Lakes are the largest surface freshwater system on the Earth. Only the polar ice caps contain more fresh water ... 84% of North America's surface fresh water ... about 21% of the world's supply of surface fresh water" is in the Great Lakes. http://lnkd.in/dmj8N_v View in LinkedIn

QUORUM SENSING IN BIOFILMS. "Quorum sensing is a system of stimulus and response correlated to population density. Many species of bacteria use quorum sensing to coordinate gene expression according to the density of their local population. Quorum sensing can function as a decision-making process in any decentralized system." http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorum_sensing View in LinkedIn

SOURCE OF BARCELONA WATER SHIPMENT. "The Ogallala Aquifer in central US is being rapidly depleted by intense municipal use, and in 2008, 438 million gallons of water were shipped to Barcelona, Spain, to relieve the worst drought that the region had experience in over 60 years." http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/04/13/the-guarani-aquifer-a-little-known-water-resource-in-south-america-gets-a-voice/ View in LinkedIn

FUNGI IN BIOFILMS IN WATER PIPES. "Uncertain ramifications of fungi in potable water have led to a limited number of investigations which show that fungi are present in a significant proportion of tap water samples; however, species abundance and diversity are extremely variable." http://lnkd.in/d6x-a3X View in LinkedIn

"THE BUSH FAMILY has purchased nearly 100,000 acres of land in Paraguay. The land that George W. Bush purchased in 2008 just so happens to sit on one of, if not the largest underground aquifers in the world, the Guarani aquifer ... it is protected by its own U.S. military base ... Mariscal Estigarribia air base, is run by US soldiers who have been exempted from war-crimes prosecution by the Paraguayan government." http://lnkd.in/d2Dvt8D View in LinkedIn

BIOFILMS IN WATER PIPES. "Biofilms were found to comprise a complex mixture of microorganisms, viz. fungi, yeasts, protozoa (Bodo sp.), free amoebae (Hartmannela, Vannella, Cochliopodium and Naegleria), and bacteria (up to 10(6) cells.cm−2), 19% of which were actively respiring." http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08927019309386235 View in LinkedIn

"THE NEW "WATER BARONS" are buying up water all over the world at unprecedented pace ... Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, UBS, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, Macquarie Bank, Barclays Bank, the Blackstone Group, Allianz, and HSBC Bank ... T. Boone Pickens, former President George H.W. Bush ..." http://lnkd.in/da66bXH View in LinkedIn

EPA IN BIOFILM CONTROL, and the considerable challenges of this old problem. http://lnkd.in/dnZinXQ View in LinkedIn