'The Drinkable Book' Is Made of Pages That Can Filter Water For Safe Drinking

The book could go on to help over 700 million people around the world.

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Bill Gates gave us drinkable water made from poop. Thankfully someone has come up with a less gross alternative that achieves the same results. The Drinkable Book is a book with pages built to purify water, making it into drinking water

The Drinkable Book’s journey began when Carnegie Mellon University researcher Theresa Dankovich developed a paper containing “bacteria-killing silver nanoparticles”—giving the paper its orange color—that kill bacteria causing typhoid, cholera, hepatitis, and E. coli. 

This paper soon became pages of the extremely cheap to make book thanks to the Water is Life group. Each page, or filter, of The Drinkable Book includes information about water safety and lasts 30 days, with the book itself providing one person clean water for up to four years. 

The scientific breakthrough is set to help the 770 million people who don’t have access to clean water, according to water.org. 

Though not everyone is convinced. Tufts University environmental engineer Dr. Daniele Lantagne told the BBC: 

“I would want to see results for protozoa and viruses. This is promising but it's not going to save the world tomorrow. They've completed an important step, and there are more to go through."

[via Daily Dot

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