World’s First Virus-Filtering Water Bottle | EcoGeek

[jason]

As someone who has used water filters, and thinks that access to safe drinking water is the most important single thing for humans to be healthy (followed by basic education for women and… hmmm… you can get just about anything with those two): World’s First Virus-Filtering Water Bottle | EcoGeek

The Lifesaver is a portable water filter system, offering clean water from any water source. Setting aside how handy this is for backpacking, this could be a huge leap forward for ensuring safe drinking water in developing countries, disaster areas, or war zones where clean water is in short supply. And it’s far more palatable than other icky but earth-friendly water filtration ideas.
 
The inventor is Michael Pritchard, who thought of the concept in response to recent natural disasters. The basic science is in creating a filter smaller than the smallest virus, which is 25 nanometers across. The filter, therefore, has holes 15 nanometers across, successfully trapping even the feistiest of disease-causing bacteria, viruses, parasites, fungi, and other waterborne pathogens. It is the world’s first filtration water bottle to achieve such thorough filtration.
 
The most important feature of the Lifesaver is the fact that it is useable by anyone, even children.

Comments

[ashenseraph.livejournal.com]

Cool, but with a price tag of $460, I think I'll wait before dropping one into my earthquake kit. (Watch -- the Big One will hit tomorrow and I'll regret writing that.)

[complicittheory.livejournal.com]

Exactly. And watch them get extremely cheap rather fast. :)