Changing the World for $5
Living in New Zealand, a country that has, in my opinion, the best and safest drinking water, it’s hard to imagine that one-sixth of the world’s population (nearly one billion people) are without clean water on a daily basis.
Most of us simply acknowledge information such as this by finding an organization to donate some money to help fund clean water campaigns and then move on to the next pressing issue. But some Iowa engineering students didn’t. They heard the facts and then rolled up their sleeves and designed a $5, hand-held device that can sanitize water, saving lives as a result.
What started as a simple class project has developed into something much, much bigger. The hand sanitizer took away the First Prize at the 2008 Environmental Protection Agency Awards, a prize that is worth $75,000. The win is prestigious enough but to the students at UI College of Engineering, the money is the key, for it’s going to be used to make water sanitizers available to Ghana and other developing countries in the future.
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3 Comments
March 2nd, 2009 at 3:49 pm
“Living in a country that has, in my opinion, the best and safest drinking water…”
If anyone is new to the site, they might not realize you’re talking about New Zealand!
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March 2nd, 2009 at 9:59 pm
Good point.
Have fixed so everyone that everyone will know where the good drinking water is.
March 6th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
Good post! Its great to see how the world is being changed with one person at a time!
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