The Water Crisis and How “Water is Life” Saves Children in Africa

Author photo Written by Lucille Chi
Published on October 19th, 2009
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Posted in About Technology, In Africa

Yearly, 1.8 million people will die due to waterborne diseases.  Sadly, most of these deaths are children under the age of 5, at rate of 5000 children a day.  There is a way to reverse and end this tragedy. The Water Solution is available and saving lives in Africa.  Imagine a small, portable, straw-like device that hangs around the neck of a child and each straw can save a child’s life for one year.

“WATER IS LIFE!” a child exclaims as he sees his siblings live instead of die. Genius inventions like these are changing the world on a global scale — saving lives and bringing children and families back into healthier states.

What most of us take for granted in our high tech society is that our basic needs for survival are met.  Now we have the ability (and many feel the responsibility) to help those in need with basics like clean water.  So check out the site, and their travels via their inspirational blog: “Follow the WaterIsLife.com team as they traveled on a Coast 2 Coast Journey from San Francisco to Maine!”

If you’ve ever wanted to save a life, now is the time to participate! Donate a water filter to a child in need or do so as a gift to a loved one. Help them reach their company goal to take 20,000 WaterIsLife.com filters to children in Kenya in 2010.  It’s just one more way to weave a global thread of compassion into our world.

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    repossessed cars said on November 18th, 2009 at 9:20 pm

    This looks like a nice addition to the steps being taken to provide potable water in the third world. It is one of the most pressing problems we face in the world. At 10 dollars a piece, however, I wonder how much support can be gained to get these things introduced “en masse” where they are needed.

    I also wonder at the state of one of these after a year around a child’s neck and the practicalities of an approach like this. Will it really last a year? Has this been tested? Will the child be bothered to actually want this thing around their neck 24/7?

    While I applaud what appears another useful weapon in the clean water arsenal, I tend to think that larger scale products and invention are the way forward for the longer term.

    Looking at work by Dean Kamen and others on larger scale water purifiers for the 3rd world that can be powered by alternative power sources (Deka’s idea is to couple the purifiying machine with a stirling cycle engine (heat exchange) that can run on any fuel is perhaps the way forward. The leap to making this reality is what will need to be overcome – and the bucks it costs to make it happen.
    Link to the Deka Research water purifier:
    http://www.dekaresearch.com/water.shtml

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