DailyDirt: Water, Water, Everywhere.. In Convenient Forms

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Drinking water is available in many forms, often for a reasonable cost as it comes out of the tap. But once you put water in a bottle, many of the reasonable prices seem to disappear, and bottled water can get truly expensive in order to get the experience of tasting water -- along with a few dissolved minerals -- that has been locked away underground for a while (or frozen in a glacier). Here are just a few alternative ways to get drinking water without buying it in a bottle.

• Imagine a water bottle that filled itself by condensing water vapor from the air. A prototype bottle could fill itself at a rate as fast as 3 liters per hour, and this bottle mimics the Namib Desert beetle's ability to harvest moisture in the desert. [url]
• If you don't want to waste a lot of money on expensive bottled mineral water, you can try to make your own mineral water by mixing various metal salts with purified water. If you're not that picky, you can even start with tap water and adjust your recipe accordingly. [url]
• If you're against the idea of plastic water bottles filling up landfills, someday you might be consuming blobs of water contained in an edible membrane made from brown algae. The Ooho water container is biodegradable, costs about 2 cents per blob, and looks like it could be a useful in an impromptu water balloon fight. [url]

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