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The newest tech gadget is the smart water bottle. You use the included app to connect the bottle to your phone to keep track of how much water you are drinking. The bottle will also remind you to take a drink. Their prices run from $10 to $100. I am not sure I need a water bottle to continually nag me…

LIVING WATER For years, scientists in New Mexico didn’t know why there was excess water in the Rio Grande River. After several years of searching, they have discovered one of the unknown water sources. They recently found the largest spring to date, a few miles south of the Colorado border, near Ute…

It might sound like an oxymoron, but scientists say they have created a way to save energy during the production of food, drugs, and other items using “dry water.” The material looks like powdered sugar and contains 95 percent “wet water”, but the liquid is encased by a sandy silica coating. Scientists…

WHAT DID YOUR HOUSEKEEPER SAY7 A man with a sprajned ankle went to see his doctor. After examining the ankle, the doctor told the patient to go home and soak his ankle in hot water. Thenext day the man called the doctot and said, "I paid you forty dollars to tell me to use hot water on my ankle. I did,…

My wife left for a a bit over a week to help her mother. While she was gone, I let her plant die. When she came home she said, "How sad, the porr thing died only inches from water." You see the plant was sitting right next to the kitchen sink. The problem was that it needed someone to give it the drink…

Tennessee town has run out of water By GREG BLUESTEIN, Associated Press Writer Fri Nov 2, 7:09 AM ET ORME, Tenn. - As twilight falls over this Tennessee town, Mayor Tony Reames drives up a dusty dirt road to the community's towering water tank and begins his nightly ritual in front of a rusty metal valve.…

A man entered a restaurant and sat on one of the stools at the counter. The waiter bought a glass of water to the man. The customer then immediately threw it into the waiters face. Quickly grabbing a napkin, the customer helped the waiter dry his face while he apologized with great remorse. "I’m so sorry,"…

On March 29, 1948, people who lived near Niagara Falls awoke to an eerie silence. The 500,000 tons of water that flow over Niagara Falls every minute had stopped—and it didn't start again for 30 hours. Heavy winds had blown tons of ice into the mouth of the Niagara River from Lake Erie and stopped the…

AMERICAN MINUTE On his third voyage, Columbus sailed south along the west coast of Africa and was caught in the doldrums, a notorious condition of no winds and intense heat. After drifting aimlessly for eight days, the winds returned, but now they were running low on water. Columbus promised to name…

The story is told of an old man who lived on a farm in the mountains of Kentucky with his young grandson. Each morning, Grandpa was up early sitting at the kitchen table reading from his old worn-out Bible. His grandson who wanted to be just like him tried to imitate him in any way he could. One day…

In 1997 Hilary and I were backpacking through the Sinai peninsula in Egypt, for just a couple of days holiday from Israel. We had just enough money to get us to mount Sinai and back on a bus and taxi. The journey was dreadful. We waited for hours in the blazing heat for a taxi to take us to Dahab, from…