'Drinkable Book' Pages Clean Dirty Drinking Water

An anonymous reader writes: Scientists have developed what they're calling the "Drinkable Book," which contains pages that can be torn out and used to effectively filter drinking water. The book has just completed a series of field trials in a few African countries, and it successfully removed more than 99% of the bacteria in water taken from contaminated sources, bringing it in line with U.S. tap water. The book's pages are imprinted with nanoparticles of silver and copper, which sterilize a wide range of microorganisms. The lead researcher says each page can filter about 100 liters of water before needing to be discarded. The team currently makes all the pages by hand, so their next step will be to find a way to automate production.

Comments

Silly

[gurps_npc]

So they took a perfectly good filter, printed on them with some kind of ink, the sewed them up into a book.

No way this is as cheap as a paperback, nor as long lasting as an acid-free book.

No one would buy this to read.

It's just a publicity stunt - and one not worth hearing about.

What book?

[iTrawl]

Now print a Quran on that filter paper and see what happens when people want clean water from their holy book and rip a leaf off.