Bike Rumor.com featured this article and video:
You pedal, it pumps water from the storage tank in the back through a filter to the container in the front. It keeps the purified water in a closed container, maintaining its integrity and making it easy to use. The added benefit is it makes transporting water much quicker and easier since many third world residents must transport water up to three miles or more just to get it from source to home.
I’m not quite sure about this one. I have questions about the practicality of getting these in the hands of the people who could use them most.
But it is yet another example of the ingenuity available to work on the challenge of clean water. We don’t lack know how. There are plenty of answers and possibilities. The problem remains the will of the people in control of these countries.
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November 21st, 2008 at 8:59 am
It’s a cool idea! Sure it may not be that practical, but it is another testament to human ingenuity, and who knows, maybe it will take off and people will use it.
The main thing is that people are creating and finding ways to solve water problems, which are only going to grow over time.
Dave
http://escapethematrix.net/blog
November 21st, 2008 at 11:16 pm
@Dave Sherwin -
My point exactly. We can solve the clean water problem. People in power have to be persuaded.
I was wondering how much that thing weighs when it gets full of water.
November 23rd, 2008 at 11:41 am
Great post, Willis. Keep the clean water posts coming. I love reading what you find on this topic.
~JB
December 1st, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Great Ingenuity, and I bet a great workout as well. It goes to show that the creativity is there. All we have to do is get on bored. Thank goodness we in America still have fresh mountain springs bubbling out of the ground.
December 1st, 2008 at 7:32 pm
@Steve -
I don’t know how many are being used. Yet another tool to get clean water.