INDIVIDUAL FILTER PREVENTS WATERBORNE DISEASES
Tuesday, 17 April 2012 15:44 A revolutionary individual filter is providing people with clean water and preventing waterborne diseases very common in South Sudan. Lifestraw marketing manager Solomon Gitau told CRN today that their big straw like filter cleans dirty water and kills almost all germs in it. He said each individual device filters up to 1,000 litres of water which is how much one person drinks in one year. Mr Gitau added the individual filter costs 100 pounds, reducing the expenses with water. He explained that the purified water and is free of bacteria. Mr Gitua said the World Health Organization approved the Lifestraw filter and Time magazine in 2006 considered the water purifying system the invention of the decade. He added that Lifestraw helped travellers using the boat to Bor and Malakal to drink directly from the river without getting sick. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob?hl=en.
