The Drinkable Book Provides Safe Drinking Water

One of the biggest problems in the world is getting safe drinkable water. The charity organization called Water is Life, dedicates their time to solve this problem. Their latest project called the drinkable book, contains tear-out pages with safety tips written in various languages. Each book comes in a 3D printed box, which converts to a filtration tray. When you tear out a page and put it into the tray, you can use it to filter water. Each page is impregnated with silver nanoparticles which give the paper its orange color but they don’t work like a normal filter. Rather than providing a barrier, they kill the bacteria as they go through the paper. The paper kills over 99.9 percent of harmful bacteria. Each page has 2 filters and each filter can be used to treat around 100 liters of water. Each book can last for up to 4 years depending on how much its used.

I chose to use this story because when I was scrolling through all the articles, this article grabbed my attention. I thought that it was interesting how they made a water filter in the form of a book. It was interesting to read about how the filter works and how they made the filter.

I found this story on the C/net website at, http://www.cnet.com/news/drinkable-book-provides-safe-drinking-water/