If you’re an outdoors person, one of the earliest things you learned was probably that in-field water sources can’t always be trusted as drinkable. A clear mountain stream could have a dead sheep in ...

* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States are working ...

It's a sad fact that many of the people who most need water filters are those who are least able to afford them. A newly demonstrated MIT technology could help, in that it uses locally sourced wood to ...

In many parts of the United States, people take clean drinking water for granted. In other parts of the world, access to clean drinking water is a significant challenge and is something that ...