Chicago Tribune (Jan. 29) -- Flint, Mich. is being inundated with bottled water. Meanwhile, tech companies have turned to alternatives. Sung-Jin Park, chief technology officer of EP Purification, a startup based at the Research Park at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, said other companies need to take the same approach. If startups with budding technologies join forces, water contamination problems can be solved more quickly and cheaply.