http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_pritchard_invents_a_water_filter.html?awesm=on.ted.com_29

It is one of the most incredible inventions I have ever seen, and IS the solution to ending the worldwide problem of the need for safe drinking water – especially in areas of abject poverty and refugee camps where the problem is worst.  Just imagine how a nation can be transformed when its people are no longer parralized with disease, when they no longer have to spend the bulk of their day gathering water and food.

Imagine what your life would be like if you had to spend most of your day gathering water, which is loaded with pathogens that cause you to get sick.  So, what little time you have left from gathering water, you spend fighting water-born disease.  If our nation lived like this, we wouldn’t be free to work, to invent, to become educated, to be of service to others. Basically our ability to be productive in society would be severely diminished.  Thus, this issue of not having practical access to safe drinking water is crippling the world’s impoverished nations.

What if this problem no longer existed?  What if it were solved permanently?  Think about it.

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