24 August, 2015
MessageToEagle.com - When you first learn about the possibility
that you can actually "drink a book" it sounds almost unreal.
However, the "Drinkable Book" is based on real astonishing technology
that could change our world by preventing water borne illness.
With a true will there are
many ways to improve the world and life conditions for all living beings on
this planet.
The Drinkable Book
According to World Health
Organization more than 3.4 million people die each year from water, sanitation,
and hygiene-related causes. Nearly all deaths, 99 percent, occur in the
developing world.
Designed by Dr Theresa
Dankovitch from Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, the 'Drinkable
Book' contains pull-out pages that are laced with bacteria-killing silver and
copper nanoparticles which can make even the most highly contaminated water
sources drinkable.
Those who use the book can
take the pages out, fit them in to a special holding device and then simply
pour the dirty water through it to produce liquid that's fit for human
consumption.
"One day, while we
were filtering lightly contaminated water from an irrigation canal, nearby
workers directed us to a ditch next to an elementary school, where raw sewage
had been dumped," said Dr. Dankovitch. "We found millions of
bacteria; it was a challenging sample."
"But even with highly
contaminated water sources like that one, we can achieve 99.9% purity with our
nanoparticle paper, bringing bacteria levels comparable to those of US drinking
water."
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Each page of the book can
clean 26 gallons of water and a whole book can last four years.
Dr. Dankovitch has teamed
up with the nonprofit WATERisLIFE for the next step in developing these filters
for use in the real world.
The Drinkable Book shows
great promise, but is still a prototype and needs your support for continued
development before it is ready to be a commercially available product.
You can learn more about
this the Drinkable Book project here.
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