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A $3 Water Purifier That Could Save Lives
Topic: Technology 9:55 am EDT, Oct 15, 2006

About 6,000 people a day — most of them children — die from water-borne diseases.

A Danish textile company as come up with a new invention meant to render dangerous water drinkable.

The invention is called Lifestraw, a plastic tube [that] can be worn around the neck and lasts a year.

Lifestraw isn’t perfect, but it filters out at least 99.99 percent of many parasites and bacteria.

A $3 Water Purifier That Could Save Lives



 
 
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