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Monday, 11 February 2013

Lifesaving invention!


LifeStraw is a water filter designed to be used by one person to safely drink over 
a 1,000 liters of water – enough for one person for one year’s time. LifeStraw family,
 a larger unit designed to filter up to 18,000 liters. It also removes 99.9% of 
waterborne bacteria and 99.9% of parasites and also filters out 99.9% of viruses. 



It was distributed in 2010 Haiti earthquake, 2010 Pakistan floods, and 2011 Thailand floods.
LifeStraw has been generally praised for its effective and instant method of bacteria removal by winning many including the 2008 Saatchi & Saatchi Award for World Changing Ideas, the ‘INDEX: 2005’ International Design Award and "Best Invention of 2005" by Time Magazine.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LifeStraw
- Roman

 

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