Deshawn Henry, a civil engineering student from the University at Buffalo, created a cheap, effective method of purifying unsafe drinking water, which could drastically change the quality of life for many people around the world with inadequate access to clean water. His rig is self-sustaining, though it is rather large and requires a little work from the user. However, he is working to improve his summer project and is hopeful for the impact it could have to human life. Kim Horcher, Tim Frisch, and Jenna Busch (Legion of Leia) discuss.
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You are bad nerds. This was reinventing the wheel, poorly. People have been developing low-tech techniques for water pasteurization and distillation at least since the Peace Corps days. A few years ago, it was demonstrated that you could get perfectly good water pasteurization simply by half filling a clear two-liter drink container, and putting it up on the roof for a few hours. Another cheap and easy reasonable effective method was developed in Bangladesh of filtering through tight weave silk.