{"id":93381,"date":"2019-07-09T17:22:43","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T00:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/laser-pinging-shows-promise-for-fast-and-cheap-water-testing"},"modified":"2019-07-09T17:22:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T00:22:43","slug":"laser-pinging-shows-promise-for-fast-and-cheap-water-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/laser-pinging-shows-promise-for-fast-and-cheap-water-testing","title":{"rendered":"Laser \u201cpinging\u201d shows promise for fast and cheap water testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/laser-pinging-shows-promise-for-fast-and-cheap-water-testing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looking for impurities in drinking water or other liquids typically involves chemical analysis, which may be time-consuming. Now, however, scientists have created an inexpensive system in which light \u2013 that\u2019s converted to sound \u2013 is used to instantly determine if water is safe to drink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for impurities in drinking water or other liquids typically involves chemical analysis, which may be time-consuming. Now, however, scientists have created an inexpensive system in which light \u2013 that\u2019s converted to sound \u2013 is used to instantly determine if water is safe to drink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}