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The drinkable book to get it into the hands of those in desperate need of clean water. Resembling a thick coffee filter, each page can be torn out to be used for filtration, but is also embossed with informative sanitary advice for local communities. May 28, 2014 nonprofit waterislife is on the way to making this a reality with the ingenious drinkable book a book whose pages can actually purify water. Each drinkable book can provide a single person with up to four. Each page of the book is its own little filter that can clean up to 100 liters of water approximately a 30day supply. These brilliant innovations are bringing clean water to. Designed by researchers at the university of virginia, carnegie mellon university and waterislife a nonprofit dedicated to providing clean water, sanitation and hygiene services worldwide, the drinkable book operates as a cheap purification kit that eliminates 99. Check out what were doing to tackle water, sanitation, and hygiene. She calls it the drinkable book tm, and each page is impregnated with bacteriakilling metal nanoparticles. The mustread book whose pages purify water goodnet. I was immediately taken with it and wrote to find out more.
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To combat the problem and to help educate about the dangers of unsafe water, waterislife teamed up with dr teri dankovich from carnegie mellon to create the drinkable book. The drinkable book is a portable water purification system. The organization waterislife is developing a drinkable book that not only teaches water safety but can actually. Drinkable book could make clean water available for millions. Open the new drinkable book that filters water to remove lethal bacteria.
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I am taking this idea to the green committee of my church and i intend to spread it. Instead, there is clear water safety advice in the local peoples language. The drinkable book a book you dont want to put down. Some are so powerful that they can even change lives. Photo courtesy brian gartside drinkable book sure, a good book can forever change your perspective on life, but one book can literally save your life. The organization waterislife is developing a drinkable book that not only teaches water safety but can actually be used to treat drinking water. Waterislife is working in partnership with page drinking paper on the drinkable book paper, re search and production, and our plan is to begin global distribution of the drinkable book in 2016. Each page of a drinkable book kills bacteria in drinking water. Theresa dankovich from carnegie mellon, waterislife introduced the drinkable book, the firstever manual that provides safe water, sanitation and hygiene. The drinkable book, by waterislife and dr teri dankovich. One page from this drinkable book can potentially filter up to 100 litres of drinking water and may provide a cheap, sustainable solution for communities suffering from severe sanitation. Drinkable book combines sanitation manual and water filters. I was just surfing around on the internet when i came across your video on the drinkable book. Support water is life and their amazing drinkable book.
Sep 21, 2016 waterislife has introduced a campaign to move into full production of the drinkable book, and with your help, we can distribute the books as part of waterislifes integrated water, sanitation and hygiene program to save lives and transform communities, as well as make the books available for global partner distribution. The drinkable book this book provides water, sanitation, and hygiene education, and each page is a water filter. Bugkilling book pages clean murky drinking water bbc news. The drinkable book that could save your life a good book can have a profound impact on the reader.
Each book can provide a user with clean water for up to four years. One bottle of waterislife bottled water gives one person safe drinking water. This book serves as the firstever manual that provides safe water, sanitation and hygiene education and serves as a tool to kill deadly waterborne diseases by providing the reader with an opportunity to create clean, drinkable water from each page. We know thats a huge number, but the world needs a huge change. After founding the startup company page drinking paper last year in collaboration with waterislife, dankovich has now helped to design the 25page drinkable book, which contains the filter pages she developed. The drinkable book looks normal on the outside and is just a few inches thick with about 20 printed pages, but on the inside the book.
Your donation provides clean water, sanitation, and hygiene solutions to millions of global citizens in need. Drinkable book turns dirty water clean for a thirsty. One in particular, called the drinkable book, might be a lifesaver. New book can filter up to four years worth of drinking water. The hardcover with sturdy pages infused with bacteriakilling silver nanoparticles is. This book provides water, sanitation, and hygiene education, and each page is a water filter. Waterislife are doing an amazing job to secure safe drinking water for children in need all over the. Could this drinkable book provide clean water to the developing. May 24, 2019 the drinkable book is both a water filter and an instruction manual for how and why to clean drinking water. The drinkable book water is life water filters for sale. Thats the idea behind the drinkable book, developed by carnegie mellon university postdoc theresa. Could this drinkable book provide clean water to the. Sep 14, 2016 the drinkable book a book you dont want to put down. The page drinking paper patent pending is a thick paper filter embedded with silver nanoag, which are lethal for microbes.
Theresa dankovich, the drinkable book contains pages coated with silver nanoparticles that. But thats exactly what one group of seriously outside the box thinkers have dreamed up. Each page of the book is coated with silver nanoparticles and when water is passed through it, 99. Resembling a thick coffee filter, each page can be torn out to be used for filtration, but is also embossed with informative sanitary. The drinkable book water is life 1,431,530 views 6 years ago. You can use pages in a book to clean impure water, and save lives of endangered people. Were in the process of producing the book in different languages with varying teaching methods to enhance the educational aspect. The drinkable book water is life 1,431,558 views 6 years ago 03. Each book is printed on technologically advanced filter paper, capable of killing deadly waterborne diseases. The drinkable book, in development by waterislife, treats water with each of its pages.
The drinkable book is an innovative way to teach sanitation and hygiene while the pages act as a filter for a family to purify their water. The drinkable book looks normal on the outside and is just a few inches thick with about 20 printed pages, but on the inside the book contains the gift of fresh water. The drinkable book provides safe drinking water cnet. Aug 18, 2015 after founding the startup company page drinking paper last year in collaboration with waterislife, dankovich has now helped to design the 25page drinkable book, which contains the filter pages. The book is printed on filter paper capable of reducing the bacteria in contaminated water by 99. The drinkable book ads of the world jump to navigation. The drinkable book filters contaminated h2o while educating people on unsafe water. And the pages themselves could explain how to treat water and why its important. Northview middle school students in ankeny, ia are amazed by it, and you will be too. Breaking this week, ddb new york and waterislife will launch the drinkable book, the firstever manual that teaches safe water tips and serves as a tool to kill deadly waterborne diseases providing the reader with an opportunity to create clean, drinkable water with each page.
The drinkable book is both a water filter and an instruction manual for how and why to clean drinking water. The drinkable book can literally save your life discover magazine. The particle coating gives the pages of the drinkable book their distinctive orange color, and the text is printed with foodgrade ink thats safe to digest. Waterislife will be distributing the drinkable book to villages in need as part of an integrated water, sanitation and hygiene program to save lives and transform communities. Its pages contain nanoparticles of silver or copper, which kill bacteria in the water. Inside the waterislife straw are membranes, patented filter material, and active carbon, which removes the taste and medium size bacteria. So with every wash that waterless works performs, we put a portion of the proceeds to finance waterislife straw filters and drinkable books. Waterislife points out that though options are limited in these settings, many people who ingest unsafe water dont even know that it could hurt them. One drinkable book is said to give 5000 litres up to four years of clean drinking water for a single person.
According to unicef, in 2015 there were 663 million people using unsafe drinking water. Waterislife is working in partnership with page drinking paper on the drinkable book paper, research and production, and our plan is to begin global distribution of the drinkable book in 2016. Now dankovich is partnering with the nonprofit waterislife to create a book with pages that dont just explain the problem of water. To combat the problem ddb new york and waterislife created the drinkable book, a beautifully bound tome whose tearout pages purify water. The pages, infused with silver nanoparticles, kill 99. Bjorn espen wik pure blue of norway founder see more. Theresa dankovich from carnegie mellon, waterislife introduced the drinkable book, the firstever manual that provides safe water, sanitation and hygiene education and serves as a tool to kill deadly waterborne diseases by providing the reader with an opportunity to create clean, drinkable water from each page. The drinkable book can literally save your life discover. Each drinkable book can provide a single person with up to four years of clean water. One of waterislifes biggest challenges beyond providing clean water is teaching proper sanitationhygiene, so this was a perfect opportunity to not only introduce the new filters, but also to do it in a way that meaningfully addresses both problems, said brian gartside, the senior designer of the drinkable book in an interview with.
And its not such a hard goal when you break it down. The twoway a drinkable book can be used to treat drinking water. Thats why waterislife, partnering with scientists and engineers at carnegie mellon and the university of virginia, created the drinkable book. The drinkable book has waterpurifying pages new atlas. Eliminating waterborne bacteria with pages from the.
A single book is claimed to meet one persons water filtration needs for four years. Functioning similarly to a coffee filter, pages in the book created by nonprofit waterislife last year filters polluted and unsafe drinking water. Apr 30, 2014 each book is printed on technologically advanced filter paper, capable of killing deadly waterborne diseases. The drinkable book is a lifesaving tool that not only educates readers about safe water practices, but also is printed on technologically advanced filter paper, capable of preventing the spread of waterborne diseases.
A book is a treasured possession, and one that stirs emotion and feelings. Thats why the humanitarian organization waterislife has partnered up with the advertising agency ddb to develop the drinkable book. May 12, 2014 launched by communications group ddb new york for charity waterislife, the drinkable book is a sanitation manual with pages that double as water filters. The drinkable book a book changing lives for the better.
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