Mutated sunflower was found in Manno cho Kagawa prefecture. Kagawa is in Shikoku.
– Mutated sunflower in Kagawa prefecture (Fukushima Diary, Sep 19, 2012):
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Machine makes water good enough to drink
Victoria Fray with a glass of drinking water made with her new desalination machine. Photo / Greg Bowker
Auckland engineer Victoria Fray has come up with a new variation on the age-old theme of teaching someone to fish so they can feed themselves forever.
She has designed a mini-desalination plant that is small and robust enough to be sent to remote Pacific islands to provide water for up to 900 people in an emergency – then be hauled back to Auckland and used again in the next disaster elsewhere.