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But how about a book that could actually save your life. Each book can provide a user with clean water for up to four years. Could these five innovations help solve the global water. The drinkable book, by waterislife and dr teri dankovich.
Clean water is essential to human life, but sadly, many people around the world do not have access to uncontaminated water. Drinkable book turns dirty water clean for a thirsty. May 17, 2014 the book came together when an ad agency designer got wind of the technology. The drinkable book is a life saving tool that filters water and teaches. The ad agency, ddb, linked dankovichs technology with waterislife, one of its clients.
The sunspring, founded by jack barker, innovative water technologies, is the only. As they state, each book is printed on technologically advanced filter. Please report that this research will be presented at a meeting of the american chemical society. Americans, on average, drink one litre of water per day and 95% drink less than three litres per day. The drinkable book is both a water filter and an instruction manual for how and why to clean drinking water.
And each page is coated with silver nanoparticles, whose ions actively kill diseases like cholera. Now a book that filters water at a low cost good news. The drinkable book has now passed two key stages showing that it works in the lab, and on real water sources. The drinkable book could bring clean water to millions. This new life saving drinkable book can provide clean water. The filters can last a couple of weeks, even up to a month, so the entire books could provide the tools to filter clean water for about a. But thats exactly what one group of seriously outside the box thinkers have dreamed up. One book can provide water filtration for up to four years, making it good for 5000 litres of clean water. May, 2014 useful book made out of innovative filter paper that cleans and purifies water. It costs only pennies to produce, making it by far the cheapest option on. Each page can be removed from the book and slid into a special holding device in which water is poured through and filtered. This new life saving drinkable book can provide clean. This breakthrough book about water safety can filter. Each individual book has the ability to provide someone with clean water for up to 4 years and during testing has proven its ability to remove more than 99% bacteria.
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Aug 19, 2015 teri dankovich from from carnegie mellon university introduces the drinkable book an affordable water purification system that whose pages can be used to filter water and kill bacteria. Could this drinkable book provide clean water to the developing. Aug 18, 2015 one page from this drinkable book can potentially filter up to 100 litres of drinking water and may provide a cheap, sustainable solution for communities suffering from severe sanitation. Made up of antimicrobial filter paper containing silver nanoparticles, bacteria and viruses are killed and dirt and larger parasites are filtered out. A press conference on this topic will be held monday, aug. The amount of drinking water required to maintain good health varies, and depends on physical activity level, age, healthrelated issues, and environmental conditions. Each of its pages is made from a thick sheet of paper impregnated with silver nanoparticles, that kill 99.
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Lockheed martin has developed and patented a perforene graphene filter which it claims would reduce the energy cost of conventional reverse osmosis. The drinkable book is a portable water purification system. Drinking water, also known as potable water, is water that is safe to drink or to use for food preparation. Each book can provide someone with clean water for up to 4 years. Created by ddb for water is life the drinkable book is a complete water purification device in which each page is printed with warnings and tips while being smothered in bacteriakilling silver nanoparticles. The book s pages are made from special paper covered in silver nanoparticles. Aug 25, 2015 the drinkable book is both a water filter and an instruction manual for how and why to clean drinking water. Sections cover the different renewable technologies currently used in the field, including solar, wind, geothermal and nuclear desalination. The drinkable book, a collaboration between water is life, new yorkbased advertising agency ddb and scientists from carnegie mellon and the university of virginia, is the worlds first book that can used to not only learn about safe water practices, but also, create drinkable h20. The drinkable book is a revolutionary water filtration system for people in developing countries to gain access to clean water. Aug 19, 2015 the drinkable book has water filters in each page. Books and water are usually not so good a mix but the drinkable book is a gamechanger.
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