'LifeStraw' can't turn your water into wine but it can turn your 'slime' into drinkable water!

This is water related so I am posting it. One billion people, or three times the population of the United States have no access to consistently safe drinking water. Newsweek is running an article about a product called the LifeStraw, a product that can be used to purify water as you sip through it. The product lasts a year or can filter 185 gallons worth of water and best of all it only costs $3.00!

Snippet from the Newsweek article:

• Each LifeStraw contains layers of increasingly fine mesh filters that block bacteria. Iodine beads kill remaining bacteria, along with viruses and many parasites. Active carbon neutralizes the taste of the iodine and knocks out remaining parasites. The LifeStraw currently does not filter out Giardia lamblia, a common parasite (making it a bad choice for U.S. backpackers looking for a way around boiling their camp water), but Vestergaard Frandsen says the company is working on solving that problem. The nine-inch-long straw filters up to 185 gallons of water—about a year's worth of use—after which it needs to be replaced. [Link] LifeStraw Website: [Link] Directions on how to use: [Link]