Thursday, 7 June 2012

Disaster Relief and Nanotech Water Filtration

This picture is demonstrating how nanofilters only allow extremely small particles through, while most other particles get blocked.

One of the biggest problems in the world at the moment is a massive shortage of water for human consumption (a.k.a potable water). In many disaster-stricken regions of Africa, bottled water is flown in to aid people who desperately need it, but this is very expensive and not sustainable.

“37% per cent of the developing world’s population – 2.5 billion people – lack improved sanitation facilities, and over 780 million people still use unsafe drinking water sources”, according to the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP).

READ MORE about the reality of disaster relief and how nano filtration technology can provide a sustainable means of water to people in need.


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