A Nanotech Teabag Delivers Potable Water for Less than a Cent - GOOD Blog - GOOD
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Development could get the cost of using it down to where those living in real poverty could afford it, at which point the whole world would be far better off than it ever has been -- bad health and early deaths due to illness have been the bane of the world since the inception of the Neolithic. This little invention could do wonders for the world.
This could make enormous changes in the world, medically, politically, and economically. The diseases people get from drinking unsafe water include some really lethal players, and making drinking water safe for everyone could save countless lives and improve the well-being of the whole world. Happy, healthy people tend to have fewer children who are, however, much healthier than those of unhappy, unhealthy people. The great technological and scientific advances of the world have almost always come from people who are healthier and more secure materially than the average. So this invention may well have an enormous impact on the world, though it will take several generations for that impact to become obvious.
Development could get the cost of using it down to where those living in real poverty could afford it, at which point the whole world would be far better off than it ever has been -- bad health and early deaths due to illness have been the bane of the world since the inception of the Neolithic. This little invention could do wonders for the world.
This could make enormous changes in the world, medically, politically, and economically. The diseases people get from drinking unsafe water include some really lethal players, and making drinking water safe for everyone could save countless lives and improve the well-being of the whole world. Happy, healthy people tend to have fewer children who are, however, much healthier than those of unhappy, unhealthy people. The great technological and scientific advances of the world have almost always come from people who are healthier and more secure materially than the average. So this invention may well have an enormous impact on the world, though it will take several generations for that impact to become obvious.