Wednesday, September 22, 2010

GREAT NEWS. HOW CAN WE HELP MAKE IT HAPPEN?

 
Life Sack 
Solves Drinking Water Issues 
for the Third World
















In many areas of the world the water crisis is not an issue of scarcity — it’s an issue of providing access to a clean supply. The lack of access to clean water and sanitation kills thousands of people every year, while countless others struggle to meet their basic needs. To assist the third world in confronting this issue, three industrial designers — Jung Uk Park, Myeong Hoon Lee, and Dae Youl Lee — have come up with the Life Sack, an ingenious water purification device that does double duty as a container for shipping grains and other food staples. Once the food has been received, the sack can be used as a solar water purification kit.

HOW IT WORKS:

filters embedded in the sacks can filter deadly impurities to 5mm size

Does anyone else see a natural application to disaster relief
in areas such as Haiti and Pakistan, among others?

 

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