LifeStraw Water Filters: Providing the World with Safe Drinking Water

If you've never heard of LifeStraw water filters, you're not alone. LifeStraw water filters have received astonishingly sparse media coverage. It's so surprising simply because LifeStraw water filters have already begun to revolutionize travel, save millions of lives, and establish a proven solution to one of mankind's greatest ongoing plagues: little or no access to safe drinking water. No small claim. Indeed, thanks to LifeStraw water filters, now available from the Switzerland-based, Danish company the Vestergaard Frandsen Group, an end is in sight to the world's problems with accessing safe drinking water.

How dire is the lack of access to safe drinking water? Here are the key numbers (from the World Health Organization) that LifeStraw water filters are up against: an estimated 50% of the planet's poor, at any given moment, is afflicted by a disease caused by contaminated drinking water. 6,000 of these people--a disproportionate number of whom are young children--die every day from these ailments. That significantly surpasses two million annual deaths from water-borne diseases. Currently, there are 1.1 billion people without adequate access to safe drinking water.

Enter LifeStraw water filters.

LifeStraw water filters are very much what they sound like: portable tubes of polystyrene plastic, slightly less than a foot long and just over an inch wide, weighing 3.3 ounces. Water is sucked up and consumed through LifeStraw water filters, being purified in the process.