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LifeStraw

or with some critical comments added: Wikipedia: LifeStraw

Bye egghat

http://www.lifestraw.com/

http://www.lifestraw.com/en/high/maincont2.asp Ths company is producing water filtration straws for $3 each for people in third world countries. E.

http://www.lifestraw.com/en/low/faq_low.asp#3

Q3. Who can use LifeStraw® personal?
Since humans have the natural ability to suck, both adults and children above three years can use LifeStraw® personal.

Great! Now I don't feel so bad about sucking. It's natural!

The LifeStraw filters particles from 125 micron down to minimal 15 micron

The Lifesaver Bottle cuts out everything larger than 15nm. 15nm = .015 microns

So yes, this is new news.

This is Old News. Or even "copycat" news. A thing called the LifeStraw does much the same and is already on the market.

More than one year ago, BBC mentioned the LifeStraw that filters water as you drink. It's able to filter 700 litres of water and was at that time priced at less than two quid (probably the wholesale price). See also the inventor Torben Vestergaard Frandsen's website.

LifeStraw only costs $3, so the Lifesaver Bottle must obviously be 100 times better. Since LifeStraw is 99.9999% effective at filtering common bacteria, the slightly pricier version will probably start exhibiting homeopathic properties.

http://www.lifestraw.com/

Are you sure about that?

And even so, you can give each family 100$ and they can eat for a month from that. That's what organisations have been doing for decades now and keep on doing. But there will be new children, uneducated, unable to provide for themselves, in need for medical care, food, clean water, shelter.

Are you going to give another 100$ for the next generation or a factor of that cause the past generation is still starving? OR would you ensure education for all, so they can build their own economy and provide for themselves, create solutions and have the next generation being independant?