Kerala Students Build Low-Cost, Organic Purifier That Makes Sewage Water Drinkable!
Size of an index finger, two engineering students from Kerala developed a water purifier from Rs 10. The USP of this water purifier is that it is cost effective and unlike other purifiers that are made from synthetic fibre, this one is organic More
- According to The Water Gap – WaterAid's State of the World's Water 2018 report, a whopping 844 million in the world are deprived of safe and clean drinking water.
- Access to safe drinking water has always been a grave problem due to several reasons including water pollution, a lack of sewage management, and growing industrialisation.
- A victim to such a sad state of affairs were two college friends, Anto P Biju and Thomas Cyriac from Palai town of Kerala.
- Being students of engineering at St Joseph's College of Engineering and Technology, Anto and Thomas worked on inventions to solve every day problems.
- With thousands of people displaced and moved to relief camps overnight, they were already dealing with several problems, one of them being procuring clean drinking water.