Comments on: The Water Crisis and How “Water is Life” Saves Children in Africa http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/10/19/the-water-crisis-and-how-water-is-life-saves-children-in-africa/ News & commentary on sustainability, activism, urban planning, politics, and our world. Fri, 25 May 2012 16:38:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Blog Action Day Reminds Us — “Water is Life” – Planetsave http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/10/19/the-water-crisis-and-how-water-is-life-saves-children-in-africa/comment-page-1/#comment-164699 Blog Action Day Reminds Us — “Water is Life” – Planetsave Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:44:58 +0000 http://ecoworldly.com/?p=4324#comment-164699 [...] today being blog action day, I am reminded of this post I wrote in tears a year ago, in hopes to help save lives by donating water filter straws to [...] [...] today being blog action day, I am reminded of this post I wrote in tears a year ago, in hopes to help save lives by donating water filter straws to [...]

]]> By: repossessed cars http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/10/19/the-water-crisis-and-how-water-is-life-saves-children-in-africa/comment-page-1/#comment-57111 repossessed cars Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:20:11 +0000 http://ecoworldly.com/?p=4324#comment-57111 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 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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