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One person was shot dead and three were wounded, two of them police, during water protests on Aug. 24.<br/><br/>*This is about water, something we take for granted every day.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>156</score><crdate>8/30/2009 8:01:35 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-08-30T20:01:35+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>26399</id><url>http://arts.plime.com/plime-com/l/26399/1/</url><title><![CDATA[9 Great Reasons to Drink Water, and How to Form the Water Habit]]></title><description><![CDATA[We all know that water is good for us, but often the reasons are a little fuzzy. And even if we know why we should drink water, it's not a habit that many people form.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>40</score><crdate>7/6/2007 8:19:22 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-06T08:19:22+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>73577</id><url>http://arts.plime.com/science/l/73577/1/</url><title><![CDATA[5 Really Weird Things About Water]]></title><description><![CDATA[Water, good ol' H2O, seems like a pretty simple substance to you and me. But in reality, water - the foundation of life and most common of liquid - is really weird and scientists actually don't completely understand how water works.]]></description><comments>10</comments><score>543</score><crdate>8/25/2008 10:28:38 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-08-25T22:28:38+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>32390</id><url>http://arts.plime.com/plime-com/l/32390/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Animation-There's Something in the Water]]></title><description><![CDATA[V Water - there's something in the water . 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It doesn&#8217;t come from French springs, Arctic glaciers, tropical islands, or Alpine peaks. It&#8217;s NYC tap water, just like Mom used to serve.]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>69</score><crdate>9/3/2008 4:39:31 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-09-03T04:39:31+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>97389</id><url>http://arts.plime.com/science/l/97389/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Gullies Mark Most Recent Water Flow on Mars]]></title><description><![CDATA[Water is present on Mars today, but it is entirely bound up in ice because the surface is too cold for liquid water.<br/><br/>But evidence has been mounting that shows water once flowed across the Martian surface, potentially supporting life. While water does not mean there was life, it's a key prerequisite.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>201</score><crdate>3/3/2009 7:37:26 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-03-03T07:37:26+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>68243</id><url>http://arts.plime.com/science/l/68243/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Water Discovered in Moon Samples]]></title><description><![CDATA[Water has been found conclusively for the first time inside ancient moon samples brought back by Apollo astronauts. The discovery may force scientists to rethink the lunar past and future, although uncertainty remains about how much water exists and whether future explorers could extract it.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>483</score><crdate>7/10/2008 12:28:24 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-10T00:28:24+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>82246</id><url>http://arts.plime.com/plime-com/l/82246/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Another Bloody Water]]></title><description><![CDATA[According to Jay Dillon, the director of Subgroup: &quot;It tends to stand out on the shelves, by not standing out. Whilst all the other brands are fighting on the shelf with the same old cascasding water falls and water droplets etc. Our clear invisible bottle makes a focus of the water inside. Because after all it's just another bloody water, right!&quot;]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>309</score><crdate>11/19/2008 12:50:44 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-11-19T00:50:44+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>19389</id><url>http://arts.plime.com/plime-com/l/19389/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Do You Really Need 8 Glasses Of Water Per Day?]]></title><description><![CDATA[We have all been bombarded with orders to drink more water every day or we could become dehydrated and if we don&#8217;t, oh no please help us, something terrible is going to happen, like we&#8217;re going to shrivel up and die.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>58</score><crdate>5/7/2007 3:38:02 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-07T15:38:02+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>19095</id><url>http://arts.plime.com/plime-com/l/19095/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The Time I Lost Control of My Bowels On the Water Slide]]></title><description><![CDATA[(hilarious craigslist entry)<br/>Our local water park is opening this weekend, so I'm posting in honor of this small town's most exciting annual event.]]></description><comments>8</comments><score>157</score><crdate>5/5/2007 1:01:45 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-05T01:01:45+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>52340</id><url>http://arts.plime.com/science/l/52340/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The teenage girl who is allergic to WATER]]></title><description><![CDATA[Teenager Ashleigh Morris can't go swimming, soak in a hot bath or enjoy a shower after a stressful day's work - she's allergic to water. 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Recent work, however, is shedding new light on water&#8217;s molecular idiosyncrasies, offering insight into its strange bulk properties.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>190</score><crdate>8/13/2009 2:29:57 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-08-13T02:29:57+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>106722</id><url>http://arts.plime.com/world/l/106722/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Water shortages in a world of plenty]]></title><description><![CDATA[Subtitled 'Water shortages are a growing problem, but not for the reasons most people think', this article in The Economist of 11th April 2009, was an eye-opener.  Not telling us how we have less water, but rather how we use (and abuse?) it.  Very interesting statistics about water usage!]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>102</score><crdate>4/13/2009 2:45:24 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-04-13T02:45:24+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>101433</id><url>http://arts.plime.com/world/l/101433/1/</url><title><![CDATA[ As climate changes, is water the new oil?   ]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than a billion people lack access to clean water, and 2.5 billion are without water for sanitation, with 80 percent of all disease borne by dirty water.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>177</score><crdate>3/22/2009 8:34:41 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-03-22T20:34:41+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>62827</id><url>http://arts.plime.com/plime-com/l/62827/1/</url><title><![CDATA[For once Justice wins in compensation case over fly in water bottle. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Martin Mustapha found a dead fly in a water dispenser bottle in 2001 and brought a $300,000 suit against the suppliers.  At appeal, Mustapha, who never drank any of the water, didn't get the result he was after.  Not by a long chalk.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>337</score><crdate>5/22/2008 6:24:07 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-22T18:24:07+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>48855</id><url>http://arts.plime.com/science/l/48855/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Weird water: Discovery challenges long-held beliefs about water's special properties]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists have long marveled over counter-intuitive properties that set water apart from other solids and liquids commonly found in nature. That is why Pablo Debenedetti and collaborators were surprised to find a highly simplified model molecule that behaves in much the same way as water, a discovery that upends long-held beliefs about what makes water so special.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>345</score><crdate>1/30/2008 3:23:45 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-30T03:23:45+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>2426</id><url>http://arts.plime.com/technology/l/2426/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Extracting water from thin air]]></title><description><![CDATA[It costs $30 per gallon to get water to U.S. soldiers in arid areas, so having a water extraction plant would be a big help. A small company has figured out how to extract water from the air, even at humidity levels as low as 14%, for 30 cents per gallon. DARPA is very interested.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>10</score><crdate>10/7/2006 7:26:41 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-10-07T19:26:41+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>75329</id><url>http://arts.plime.com/plime-com/l/75329/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Father, son rescued after treading water in Atlantic for 12 hours]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Father and his 12 year old son are now safe after spending over 12 hours treading water overnight in the Atlantic Ocean.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>351</score><crdate>9/8/2008 10:37:49 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-09-08T10:37:49+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>