Drinking Water - Environment. Travel and medical advice | malaria.lshtm.ac.uk. Global Polio Eradication Initiative > Infected countries. Norovirus Can Survive for Months — Perhaps Years — in Drinking Water. Purple packages of pain: false colored (no, they’re not purple in real life) transmission electron micrograph of human norovirus. CDC/Charles D. Humphrey. CDC Public Health Image Library ID 10708, click for link. If there is a central circle of hell, I now know what’s there: endless glasses of water spiked with norovirus that you must drink for eternity.
Yet incredibly, some persons of Achilles-class bravery/stupidity actually signed up for this punishment of their own free will, and did so in the name of science. Brave souls, I salute you. Because what these people helped discover is nothing short of spine-tingling: norovirus can survive at least 61 days in well water. OK, so many of you are no doubt wondering: What the heck is norovirus? A Pain in the Gut Norovirus is Norwalk Virus, named for the Ohio town which in 1968 was home to the virus’s first identified outbreak and which no doubt do not include this information in its Chamber of Commerce literature. A Simple Formula for Suffering.
Matt Damon: Safe Water and a Toilet -- Is That Too Much to Ask... for 2.5 Billion People? By the time you finish reading this paragraph, one more child will have died from something that's been preventable for over a century. Nearly 40 percent of the world's population is still unable to secure a safe glass of water or access a basic toilet. While we continue to rally around the goal of ensuring safe water and sanitation for all, the real question we are left asking ourselves: how do we truly confront this in a way that results in realizing our vision within our lifetime? Even today, as solutions are known and available, lack of access to safe water and sanitation continues to claim more lives through disease than any war claims through guns. Video no longer available We're sorry, but the video you are trying to watch is no longer available.
This painful reality has driven philanthropic efforts to help stop the suffering. There are conferences, master plans, frameworks, legislation, new institutions, and even more resolved resolutions. LifeStraw Brings Clean Water To Almost One Million In Kenya (video. LifeStraw is a point-of-use filter that turns contaminated water into an EPA-approved thirst quencher. Most of us take access to clean water for granted. But for nearly a billion people around the world, clean water is a commodity that’s hard to come by. In places like Sub-Saharan Africa where diarrheal disease is a major killer, access to clean water could save hundreds of thousands of lives.
LifeStraw, a portable water filter that you sip from, was donated to nearly a million households in Kenya last April. The water filter is easy to use, cheap to make, and adds to the growing number of technologies developed by wealthy countries to improve the lives of the people living in impoverished ones. With a filtering tube nine inches long, one inch in diameter, and weighing less than two ounces, even children can easily carry the LifeStraw wherever they go.
It’s clear in the following video that LifeStraw is a godsend for the people of Kenya. [image credit: Vestergaard Frandsen] 5 Tech Breakthroughs Bringing Clean Water to the Developing World. The Global Innovation Series is supported by BMW i, a new concept dedicated to providing mobility solutions for the urban environment. It delivers more than purpose-built electric vehicles — it delivers smart mobility services. Visit bmw-i.com or follow @BMWi on Twitter. In the West we take clean water for granted, but for 1.1 billion people across the developing world, the idea of easy access to treated water goes beyond a luxury concept. Technology can help. There are various companies and charitable organizations working on easy-to-use, low cost solutions to benefit those across the globe for whom obtaining potable water is a daily struggle. And clean water doesn't just mean less disease and death — it has economic and social implications, too.
Here we highlight five innovations that are bringing sanitary and safe drinking water to people in the developing world. Series Supported by BMW i Are you an innovative entrepreneur? Global Polio Eradication Initiative > About us > Progress > Progress towards polio eradication. Schistosomiasis - IAMAT.