These bicycles also provide clean drinking water. Wonderful modification of the bicycle!
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Bicycle powered water pumps and filtration systems

Local couple lives their ideals at work, at home and in service
An activist couple discusses Food Not Bombs, a bike recyclery and local food.
The Ethicist on SUVs and other Urban Transport issues
Randy Cohen, the man who sorts out readers' ethical dilemmas in his NY Times Magazine feature column The Ethicist , weighs in on the automobile's impact on urban life.
Fighting Fat and Climate Change- The importance of walking more and eating less meat
America's obesity epidemic and global warming might not seem to have much in common. But public health experts suggest people can attack them both by cutting calories and carbon dioxide at the same time.
How? Get out of your car and walk or bike half an hour a day instead of driving. And while you're at it, eat less red meat. That's how Americans can simultaneously save the planet and their health, say doctors and climate scientists.
Tips for Bicycling in the Rain
As the days contract and sunshine turns to rain, do we trade in our bazillion-mile-to-the-gallon peddling machine and our great summer biking legs for a piddly twenty-five miles to the gallon? Not a chance.