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Article: New water filter aimed at disaster, humanitarian relief.(News)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- August 20, 2008
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Byline: Robert McCoppin Daily Herald health & fitness reporter rmccoppin@dailyherald.com
Visiting dignitaries from around the world came to Hanover Park Tuesday to drink water out of a retention pond.
A fish jumped in the brown, turbid pond as a hose sucked water through a filter and pumped out crystal-clear H2O.
The water seemed to have a remaining whiff of its source, but betrayed no taste of it as visitors toasted with styrofoam cups, quaffed their drinks and found it tasted as pure as any tap water.
"Im impressed," said Boniface Unachukwu, representing a prominent chief from Nigeria. "This is going to be very useful."
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