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This strikes me as a particularly creative and refreshingly simple device for sanitizing drinking water, but given the frequency with which we see articles with

This strikes me as a particularly creative and refreshingly simple device for sanitizing drinking water, but given the frequency with which we see articles with headlines like "So-and-so invents such-and-such device to clean water," the problem of access to drinking water would long since be solved. That is, unless it's not really a technical problem. Articles such as this don't often delve into broader issues of public health, education, or even poverty, but with an issue as complex as water access, perhaps we out to discuss it in a more complex context.

barry-cotter 12y ago
>That is, unless it's not really a technical problem. It isn't. This has the same problem as all the other solar sterilisers, it says "I'm poor." People are empirically not willing to use these things. You'd probably be better off with a public education campaign to normalise their use, something objectively ridiculous like having middle class families that actually have decent running water doing it, visibily and publicly.