They say a book is a man’s best friend, but who
would have thought that Dr. Theresa
Dankovich a researcher at Carnegie
Mellon would take a stride to redefine all we thought a book could do.
Astonishingly enough Dr. Theresa during her PhD at
McGill University developed a paper with high antimicrobial activity. She
engineered this sturdy sheet of paper, which is embedded with silver
nanoparticles and put together as “THE DRINKABLE BOOK”. The pages of the
drinkable book having silver nanoparticles coating are fatal for 99.9% of bacteria, such as cholera, E. coli and
typhoid that contaminates the water, thus rendering the water free of harmful
pathogens and fit to drink.
This book meets the US EPA
guidelines for bacteria removal to produce safe drinking water and the process
of purification in itself is an easy task. One can tear the filter pages in the
book and put it in the filter box that happens to encase the book, pour the
water and what filters out is water free of microbes, healthy and safe to
drink. Each filter can provide 30 days of clean water and the book assures
freedom from water related diseases like typhoid, cholera, etc. for a period of
4 years.
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