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Oct 20, 2005

"Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water." --Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Hungarian biochemist and Nobel Prize Winner for Medicine

Water Life

A team in Denmark has created the LifeStraw, a $2 invention modeled on the drinking straw with sediment and pathogen filters. The low cost, durability, and ease of use make it a promising technology to the one-sixth of the world's population that has no access to safe drinking water, and are prone to water-borne diseases.