Monday, March 24, 2008

Good water for Bangladesh

The Segway guy, Dean Kamen has two new systems for developing countries. One is an electrical generator that uses cow dung and the other is a water purifier than can run off of waste heat from the electrical generator. He is planing to use microcapitalizm in Bangladesh to help distribute both. A major purpose is to reduce disease with better water. The head of a hospital in Dhaka Bangladesh told me on a recent visit that diarrheal diseases were the next major problem after polio. In addition to infectious agents they have a problem with natural arsenic in the ground water that on chronic use causes a diarrheal disease.

Read more at the following links:

http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/16/technology/business2_futureboy0216/index.htm

http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/16/technology/business2_futureboy0216/index.htm

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