Showing posts with label water. Show all posts
Showing posts with label water. Show all posts
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
GREAT NEWS. HOW CAN WE HELP MAKE IT HAPPEN?
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.
- inhabitat.
HOW IT WORKS:
Does anyone else see a natural application to disaster relief
in areas such as Haiti and Pakistan, among others?
in areas such as Haiti and Pakistan, among others?
Labels:
aid,
disaster,
relief,
Third World,
water
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