Was just browsing on the BBC website and came across this article.
In a world where one person in six in the South does not have access to drinking water, and 6,000 people a day die from water-borne diseases, something like this could make a huge difference. Or could it? Wateraid say that at US$3.50 a day the device is actually quite expensive, especially for families earning less than a dollar a day. Additionally, the straw won’t lessen the hours of walking that people all over the South have to do every day in order to collect less water than they actually need.
Food for thought (bad pun, I know).
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