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Watercone: Saving Lives Daily

posted November 28, 2008 - 1:26am
Watercone: Saving Lives Daily

A billion people have no access to clean drinking water. According to UNICEF, 5000 children die daily as a result of diarrhoea caused by contaminated water. The figure could drop dramatically thanks to an invention by BMW Group Designer Stephan Augustin. He has developed an affordable device that uses solar radiation to produce clean drinking water from brackish or salt water. The water underneath the Watercone evaporates and condenses on the inside and the droplets are collected in a trough positioned under the cone. In this way, up to 1.6 litres of pure drinking water can be gathered each day. The Watercone has been successfully tested in Yemen and recently won the National Energy Globe Award. Mass production is scheduled to start soon.

The philosophy of the Watercone concept is that "many peripheral small units will ensure a better supply of freshwater than one central big generator. If the big one fails, there is no water for the people. If a small one fails, the other ones still keep on working.“

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Very Funny Mythman...

taranitely - Wed, 2008-3-12 1:34 am
... but from a medical point of view, all water should be treated (by boiling, settling, adding bleach, etc.) before it is consumed. In any case, bacteria is everywhere. You are not going to escape them by drinking wine or beer, but it will certainly take your mind off them! Loved the reply though. You make me laugh. Black Light Search: saving the world, one black screen at a time.

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@trn--S. Mart. Echoes SofaKing Echoes Ben Franklyn: Water = Poop

mythman - Tue, 2008-2-12 2:10 pm
(S. Mart. - fortuitous abbreviation of my Facebook-friend, brewmeister Steven Martinez) The quote, from SofaKingDrunk.com, is: As Ben Franklin said: In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom,in water there is bacteria. In a number of carefully controlled trials, scientists have demonstrated that if we drink 1 liter of water each day, at the end of the year we would have absorbed more than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli, (E. coli) - bacteria found in feces. In other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of poop. However, we do NOT run that risk when drinking wine & beer (or tequila, rum, whiskey or other liquor) because alcohol has to go through a purification process of boiling, filtering and/or fermenting. Remember: Water = Poop, Wine = Health . Therefore, it’s better to drink wine and talk stupid, than to drink water and be full of crap. There is no need to thank me for this valuable information: I’m doing it as a public service . Sure, I don't want condemn H2O to 'being poopy'; but it serves as a fertile environment to-evil just as well as -good! ---Uncle MythMan (http://www.geocities.com/jmythh2k5) & the Xombies Bring-about World-Peace by Discussing Your Opinions on the Beauty Above & the Beauty Among!

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Great Invention

Prabhjeet - Tue, 2008-2-12 11:23 am
What a lovely invention. Just because water is available to us in abundance, we take it for granted. Nice pice of news. +1 There is alos another invention by the name of Water Mill that generates water out of air. That will also go a long way in bridging water shortage.

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There are worse ways to go!

taranitely - Tue, 2008-2-12 1:56 am
It's not just tap water that's bad. Cooldrink and processed foods all contain dangerous chemicals that we consume daily in the name of Capitalism. Truly, nothing is sacred anymore. Oh, and toothpaste also contains fluoride, so don't swallow the stuff... ever.

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This Reminds Me of the Douglass Report, in a Weird Way ...

mythman - Mon, 2008-1-12 4:13 pm
Weird because the report is actually about how ~bad~ (American tap-)water is: "Be sure to drink 8 glasses of water daily" WRONG AGAIN! The water that comes out of your faucet contains chemicals that could cause cancer and Alzheimer's! And the US government not only blindly looks the other way, they're the ones pumping it into your house through the public water systems! In fact, if you drink tap water, you might as well eat rat poison! That's because fluoride – a by-product of the aluminum manufacturing process – could only legally be sold as an insecticide and a RAT POISON before a 1930s study (funded by the aluminum industry) pointed out the "benefits" of fluoride. Drinking a glass of tap water is really no different than playing Russian Roulette with your health. I forget what it was about 'plain old water'; but I vaguely remember some guy talking about how he hasn't touched a drop of the stuff in over 20 years ... maybe he was just talking about 'tap water' too, i dunno ---Uncle MythMan (http://www.geocities.com/jmythh2k5) & the Xombies Bring-about World-Peace by Discussing Your Opinions on the Beauty Above & the Beauty Among!

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I Wouldn't

taranitely - Fri, 2008-28-11 3:54 pm
Don't be so surprised. Plastic is everyone these days! And yeah, there are many ways to purify water... but I'm just glad some big corporations are taking an interest, even if it is just for PR.

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I saw this

Darrell Curts - Fri, 2008-28-11 10:45 am
I saw this once on Man V Wild or one of those type shows. Except he used his on pee. Basically worked like this - Stoopid adventurer/host/idiot strans himself intentionally, for our amusement, in the desert. Said idiot runs out of water in about a day or two - gets really thristy - may have to call his team in early to get him if he can't find water. He wraps tree in conviently found plastic and next day gets a few swallows of water - not enough. He then decides to pee into the sand, put some plastic over it at an angle, evaporated pee-water condenses on plastic, runs down plastic into cup which the host, a few hours later, drinks. Ah, refreshing!

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