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If you are the one - paranoid about your drinking water then the concept called ‘BottomsUp’ is out, especially for you. Actually, BottomsUp is a portable water purifier, using which you get crystal clear water. Interestingly, using it is as easy as a child’s play. Just screw it onto the top of the bottle and then screw its other side onto the top of an empty bottle and let the clean water filter down into the empty one. Your clean drinking water is out for you now!

Via: Yanko Design

Water is the single most important element on the face of the planet. Sure we need air to breathe and land top live on, but it is the blue magic that separates Earth from the other planets and has been the reason for our very existence. While 75% of the planet is covered in water, only 2 to 3 percent of that water is pure drinking water. With human activity wasting and using so much of water each year, how is it that we get the pure water sources filled up each season?

No, I do not wish to tell you the obvious, but intend to remind you of the importance of something that we believe is simple natural phenomenon and take it for granted. Every time it rains, our fresh water resources are getting a refill from Mother Nature. Of course for some of us rain is more romantic and for others poetic. But we won’t discuss that today; let’s talk about that in detail some other day. The point is nature restores water in its purest form by the simple process of evaporation. The process is simple, but people are now using that very same technique to make modern water purifiers.

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The solar water purifier collects heat from sunlight and uses it to evaporate unpurified water running through the panel. The vapour collects inside the glass forming the panel’s surface and is collected - leaving behind most impurities. Margaret Folkard and John Ward’s inspiration behind inventing the Solar Water Purifier has been effect of polluted water and water-borne diseases on the health and life expectancy of the population, young people in particular.

Let’s begin with a description of the appearance of the product. The Solar Water Purifier is a rectangular shaped unit that contains an array of 32 shallow, square trays interconnected by a series of weaves. The trays are made from a black plastic sheet that is vacuum formed onto an aluminium pattern to reach the desired cell shapes. The panel of cells is covered by a sheet of white-glass and sealed using the surface tensions of water vapour produced in the unit. The undersides of the black plastic trays have been thermally insulated to maximise heat absorption. The unit is framed by an aluminium mount for strength and to keep shadowing to a minimum. It is also fitted with folding legs, so that the entire system is inclined at 12.5º to the horizontal.

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