Sponsor a Lifestraw Family Water Filter with Project H Design
by Collin Dunn, Corvallis, OR, USA 
on 04.25.08
We've oohed and aahed at the Lifestraw, the cigar-sized personal point-of-use water filter produced by Vestergaard Frandsen. While it certainly has the potential to provide clean drinking water to a lot of people, a family of five would potentially need five Lifestraws to insure access to clean water. That's why they developed the Lifestraw Family, a water filter system designed to filter enough water for an entire family.
Fresh off the successful delivery of 75 Hippo Rollers in Africa, Project H Design and founder Emily Pilloton have set up an initiative to fund 100 Lifestraw Family systems for a slum community in Mumbai, India. For $25 you can sponsor one system, which will be delivered this summer directly to the Mumbai community by Project H. With more than a billion people lacking access to safe drinking water, and five million people dying of water-related disease every year, here's an opportunity to make a small but extremely meaningful difference.
The project is a joint venture with Berkeley-based Haath Mein Sehat (Health In Hand) Mumbai, who will be on site in Mumbai this summer to conduct testing, user acceptance interviews, follow up visits with families receiving the Lifestraw systems.
Lifestraw Family can provide, on average, at least 10 liters of purified water an hour and more than 10,000 liters over the product’s lifecycle; that adds up to enough to provide a typical family with 1.5 years worth of clean and safe water. When used properly, it removes at least 99.9999% of all bacteria, 99.99% of all viruses, and 99.9% of parasites. It also removes dirt from water. Here's how it works:
::Lifestraw Family and ::Project H Design
Learn more about Project H Design and Lifestraw water filters:
Project H Delivering Water in Africa with Hippo Rollers
The Hippo Water Roller
Project H Design: Initiatives for Humanity, Habitats, Health and Happiness
Lifestraw Named World-Changing Idea
Lifestraw: Thirsty? Suck It Up
Lifestraw: All You Can Drink for a Year!
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? Appears to be a human rendition of a water feader for hampsters. We want to ship all our crap grain over to other nations but how many resources are we investing in equiping communities with the tools to maintain themselves in order that they need NOT be relient on us. This element is an epidemic, one group gets another hooked then keeps feeding them peace-meal. Control control control. Feds do it with city police agencies, pimps with whores, dealers with addicts, the world bank with susceptible nations..... pardon, no time for a spell check, storm coming through. What was that message, where is my book of over-stated and under-utilized quotes, something along the line of give them a fish and feed them for a day, teach them how to fish and feed them for a life time. you know how things get passed down, peace, love everyone even mr cheney and bush, love peace yeah.
Very intersing project... it can be implement in the building?