A team of Americans partnered with a non profit organization to create a book that cleans and purifies water as it passes over the pages. One page of this book can possibly clean up to 100 liters of water. This product can give people a cheap and easily accessible way to clean their water. Pages contain silver so the diseases such as E-coli or typhoid disease gets absorbed by the silver and dies. This product has hopes to significantly decrease the current 1.5 million deaths per year globally due to waterborne diseases. The book comes with 25 thick, and sturdy water cleaning pages and comes in at a price of $50. The only issue that has arose from this product is the uncertainty of the amount of bacteria that has been removed from the water. Regardless, any attempt at cleaning water is a big step to reducing the 1.5 million death toll. The creators of this product make these books by hand, but hoping that demand grows, they hope to be able to land a manufacturing deal.
If this isn’t one of the coolest things I have ever seen, I don’t know what is. This is incredible! I love the versatility of it. It is small enough to be shipped in large quantities. It also is able to do quite a few Liters of water before needing to be replaced. It is also relativity cheap for what you get out of it. The impact in 3rd world countries could be awesome. SUPER cool idea!
Interesting and unique way to filter water. Defiantly out of the box thinking and problem solving. Not many people would ever use a book idea to filter water. This product is not only great art but a solution for people who can’t access clean water.
Way to utilize something (the book) that you would never think about using to provide clean water to people. This is exactly what redemptive entrepreneurship looks like. So cool to see the stats on it.
I really love this idea, I just have one question does the book still have a story in it. I love the fact that this is saving lives and helping the world but I can’t help but curious about whether or not the pages tell a story.
Really innovative idea. And the fact that it literally saves lives is truly in the spirit of redemptive entrepreneurship.