Friday, February 03, 2006

Waterleaders

Waterleaders is an organization with the aim of providing safe water to all the people of the world, in a sustainable manner, one by one. They have started with trying to set up water purification systems at schools to provide safe drinking water to the students while they are attending the school. Apparently, good and cheap solutions are possible with simple methods like carbon purification and treatment with sunlight. If solar panels can be set up boil the water, it's even better then! However, this in one place where good research is needed to bring down the costs of RO (Reverse Osmosis) solutions, with low power consumption, and robustness to operate in dusty and electronic unfriendly environments. Technological solutions for the poor cannot be poorly designed, but they need even more research and practical engineering.

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