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>> For generations, we dreamed
about a place to live and work

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in space, a place where life

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up there would benefit
life down here.

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Today, that dream has come true.

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Research on the International
Space Station improves lives all

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over the world; the
station's benefits

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for humanity grow every day and
they can be told by the lives

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that have been changed.

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[ Foreign language ]

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>> We're in the town
of Tres Pecos.

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This is a water purifier that
uses technology developed

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by NASA and makes free
purified water available to all

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of the people of the community.

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The technology was
developed by NASA

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for the International
Space Station.

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In this community, the
water comes from the town

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but in other communities, where
we are working in Chiapas,

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it comes from the
wells, from rivers,

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from streams, from springs.

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The water can come

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from practically any
source that you can imagine.

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People who drink contaminated
water alter their health.

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Their children's
development is diminished.

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[ Foreign language ]

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>> My name is Raquel Perez Perez

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and I am the campus
assistant of this school.

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There were lots of
children with parasites

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and stomach bugs before
the purified water came,

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now the kids are healthier

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because they now drink
purified water from the plant.

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The energy that is being used
is solar and the children come

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to recess with their cups and
they get the water themselves.

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They are happy now
and they want to come

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and drink water all the time.

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>> When you get involved
with a plant of this kind

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that gives people access to
pure water for human consumption

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that is going to prevent
people from getting sick,

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what you're really doing is
improving people's health

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but also you're improving
the economy for these people.

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[ Foreign language ]

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If we could put one of these
plants in every community

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and have people use it,
it would have resolved one

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of the most important
sources of health problems,

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at least in the rural areas
of Mexico, that's the truth.

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If it is well used, it
can change the lives

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of an entire community.

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It gives you children that
learn more, it gives you parents