LifeStraw

More than one billion people – one sixth of the world’s population - are without access to safe water supply. At any given moment, about half of the world's poor are suffering from waterborne diseases, of which over 6,000 – mainly children – die each day by consuming unsafe drinking water. The world’s most prolific killer though is diarrhoeal disease from bacteria like typhoid, cholera, e. coli, salmonella and many others.
The LifeStraw was developed as a response to the billions of people who are still without access to these basic human needs. Made by Vestergaar-Frandsen, this plastic pipe filter costs around US2.00 and provides about a year of water free from bacteria such as Salmonella, Shigella, Enterococcus and Staphylococcu. Sucking through the straw, an act even babies can perform, provides the force necessary to implement the filtering.

Vestergaar-Frandsen, headquartered in Switzerland, have also made the disease-fighiting products PermaNew and ZeroFly

via MedGadget and GizMag