Vestergaard Frandsen, a European company developing and selling disease control textiles, has launched LifeStraw(R) Family, a new point-of-use product designed to provide safe drinking water for consumers in the developing world. It can provide, at an average, at least 10 liters of purified water an hour and more than 10,000 liters over the product’s lifecycle-enough to provide a typical family with 1.5 years worth of clean and safe water. The product has been extensively tested in the United States at the University of Arizona, and complies with US Environmental Protection Agency guidelines for microbiological purifiers, and removes at least 99.9999% of all bacteria, 99.99% of all viruses, and 99.9% of parasites.
LifeStraw(R) Family builds upon the success of LifeStraw(R) Personal, a portable water filtration device developed two years ago by Vestergaard Frandsen.
Read more: PRNewswire, 7 Feb 2008.
See also: IRIN, 4 Feb 2008
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anonymous // August 4, 2008 at 8:25 pm |
Here in Brasil the simple one has just arrived (not the family). And they say it’s brand new technology.
It should cost between 2-5 dollars. But an internet store charges 40 dollars per straw plus shipping.
Technology isn’t for everyone.