Engineer Michael Pritchard shows off his portable ‘Livesaver’ water filter bottle, which transforms filthy water into drinkable water in seconds, and could revolutionise aid to disaster areas and countries without access to clean drinking water.
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Truly amazing. Logic personified. Here’s a true Lifesaver , so why isn’t it been brought up & distributed in massive amounts. It’s also being bought up big by the military but why not the civilian aid relief? Military spending is more important. Full stop. There is also big money in disaster aid which would stand to lose out.. It goes to show when it comes down to it, profit and greed and far more important than people’s lives.
P.s- Couldn’t go pass the ironic GE greenwash advert!! Catchy homely music, we’re FOR the environment in our adverts! Ahem..
To answer the above: I checked out their website. You can buy a lifesaver bottle for the bargain price of $200 (about £100). The whole idea of handing these out by the millions seems a lot less attractive when you think what $200 could do in the poorest areas, for water and for other problems as well. It’s just too expensive to contemplate for aid purposes. People would be killing each other over selling these things on the black market.
That said, to solve the world’s water problems, the number doesn’t seem that outrageous. It would certainly enrich Mr Pritchard.