2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44
In his TED talk, Michael Pritchard talks about how he looked at the 2004 Asian tsunami and then the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to redesign portable water filters. What came of it? The small and affordable Lifesaver bottle that could save your life.
Do you know in which countries you can drink tap water? If you are on the territory of Russia or Ukraine, drinking tap water is undesirable, but not fatal. If you are, for example, in Italy or Switzerland, you can safely open the taps and drink: the water there is clean and even tasty. In India, it is not even recommended to rinse your mouth with tap water, and people with weak stomachs (and just those who want to play it safe) prefer to rinse their mouths with bottled water. That is, clean drinking water in most countries is only available in shops or home filters. But what if you are located where there are no sources of clean drinking water? Drinking dirty so as not to die of thirst, as it was after the tsunami in Asia in 2004? Or fight for water, as after Hurricane Katrina (clean water was delivered to the victims within five days!)?
This problem did not allow Michael Pritchard to sleep peacefully, and he decided to create his own filter that would allow purifying the water from the smallest bacteria and could almost always be at hand. This is how the Lifesaver bottle was born, which can clean 6,000 liters, after which the filter needs to be changed.
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