Drinkable book will teach you sanitation and give you 4. The drinkable book project came about from a partnership with brian gartside. Thats carnegie mellon chemist theresa dankovich, who created something called the drinkable book to help. The drinkable book, a collaboration between water is life, new yorkbased advertising agency ddb and scientists from carnegie mellon and the university of virgini a, is the worlds first book that can used to not only learn about safe water practices, but also, create drinkable h20. Waterislife has introduced a campaign to move into full production of the drinkable book. Each page is coated with silver nanoparticles, whose ions actively kill diseases like. The drinkable book is a guide to safe drinking water and the pages can be torn out and used as water filters. Carnegie mellon chemist theresa dankovich saw a problem and came up with an efficient and inexpensive solution to it. Drinkable book could give millions access to clean water. Specifically, they have invented the drinkable book, which will provide you with four years worth of drinkable water.
The drinkable book is a good example of science in the service of society. The drinkable book provides safe drinking water cnet. One page from this drinkable book can potentially filter up to 100 litres of. Each page of this drinkable book is a water filter that. Not only do over a billion people worldwide lack access to clean water, but most of those people do not have the education to understand the importance of clean drinking water and sanitary processes to ensure they lead healthy, full lives. This breakthrough book about water safety can filter 4 years worth of clean water the drinkable book looks like a coffee table book, but its actually a fullon waterfiltration system. Advanced filter paper made of silver nitrate proven to check waterborne diseases such as cholera, ecoli and hepatitis. Drinkable book promises to filter unclean water time. Thats the idea behind the drinkable book, developed by carnegie mellon university postdoc theresa dankovich. These books can purify contaminated drinking water invented by a chemist, each page of a drinkable book can help rid water of deadly diseases. Thegiftofwateryoutube dankovich believes the drinkable book could be part of the answer. Drinkable book combines sanitation manual and water filters. Waterislifes drinkable book availability and global partner distribution.
Pour untreated water over a page from the book and silver nanoparticles embedded in it will kill nearly 100 percent of. The pages contain instructions and can be used as hightech water filters. The drinkable book was presented on monday at the 250th national meeting of the american chemical society in boston. Drinkable book filters filthy water and makes it safer. Drinkable book turns dirty water clean for a thirsty world. Each book is printed on technologically advanced filter paper, capable of killing deadly waterborne diseases.
Jimmy fallon, kristen wiig, will ferrell, and matthew mcconaughey turn quarantine into pretty funny soap. This book is a heroic effort to save lives lost by contaminated water. A drinkable book delivers clean water in a new form brian gartside, graphic designer at ddb ny talks about the combination of tech and creativity that resulted. Launched by communications group ddb new york for charity waterislife, the drinkable book is a sanitation manual with pages that double as water filters. A new invention promises to make dirty drinking water potable by filtering it through the pages of a book. The drinkable book purifies water for millions business.
Right now all the filter papers are made by hand by teri or a student in a local church. The drinkable book purifies water for millions business insider. The drinkable book has waterpurifying pages new atlas. The drinkable book is a refreshingly creative but practical approach that marks a new chapter in combining communications with realworld action, a direction also championed by the peruvian. The drinkable book science updates science netlinks. Its pages contain nanoparticles of silver or copper, which kill bacteria in.
Printed on each page of the 100page book is the same message, in either english or swahili. Theresa dankovich, the drinkable book contains pages coated with silver nanoparticles that. Each book can provide a user with clean water for up to four years. One page from this drinkable book can potentially filter up to 100 litres of drinking water and may provide a cheap. Invented by the folia water cofounder and chief technical officer dr. Drinkable book turns dirty water clean for a thirsty.
The drinkable book that makes clean water mental floss. Teri dankovich from from carnegie mellon university introduces the drinkable book an affordable water purification system that whose pages can be used to filter water and kill bacteria. Drinkable book filters filthy water and makes it safer to drink, researchers say each page in the drinkable book is printed with instructions in local languages. Bugkilling book pages clean murky drinking water bbc news. The drinkable book holds promise of safe water news al. A new invention promises to make dirty drinking water potable by filtering it. One drinkable book is said to give 5000 litres up to four years of clean. Teri dankovich, who developed the drinkable book, says it is. Could this drinkable book provide clean water to the developing world. Theresa dankovich, the drinkable book filter has a silver coating that kills bacteria and. The drinkable book combines treated paper with printed information on how and why water should be filtered. The drinkable book, by waterislife and dr teri dankovich. Many developing communities rely on a manmade lake or dugout as their water source.
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