Tech & Water

Pharmaceuticals in the water? Yet another water purity issue .. and technology jumps to the rescue.

Earlier today, we went out to a Bay Area reservoir to visit something called the "Solar Bee," a water purification piece of technology that runs on solar power. The "Bee" stirs up the water in a certain way to make sure that any mercury that creeps into the water table is kept underground inside the sediment, so no microbes, and no fish, ingest it.

Could this type of technology be used to dissipate other pollutants? Looks like it may .. the Bees are in very early phases of testing, but already moving from mercury to algae. Perhaps big pharma could be next.

Count on the Silicon Valley to give us technology to fight against the Nation's ills .. in this case, polluted water.