GLOBAL: LifeStraw water purifier grows into family size

by (author unknown), AlertNet Newsdesk on Feb 04, 2008

Source: IRIN LifeStraw began when a young Danish graduate, whose family owned a small textile company, took a trip in the
1990s around Africa, where contaminated water claims hundreds of thousands of lives each year. Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen started to think how he could put the family company to good use for the
people of Africa. The result was LifeStraw, a cheap, portable personal water purifier, cited by Forbes Magazine in 2006 as "one of the 10 things that will change the way we live".