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.

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

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