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U.S. Will Use Robots to Patrol Water Supply

Posted by michael on from the drink-me dept.

bl8n8r writes "By the summer of 2005, the United States will have an underwater network of robots monitoring the nations fresh water supply. Realtime environmental details will be used to help safeguard the nations drinking water. The robots would take on the painstaking, time consuming, and sometimes dangerous, task of collecting water samples which is currently being done by carbon based lifeforms."

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  1. Curious by mabu · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How will these robots be able to distinguish between a terrorist attack and the republicans' rollback of environmental regulations?