1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:02,840 Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you should know 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:16,320 Speaker 1: from house Stuff Works dot Com? Hey, and welcome to 4 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, Charles W Chuck Bryan. Isn't 5 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:22,920 Speaker 1: this proper place across from me that makes this stuff 6 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 1: you should know? Let's get physical physical, let me hear 7 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 1: your body talk. You're ready. I couldn't quite do it. 8 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:36,920 Speaker 1: You should probably explain that I put my hand under 9 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:40,199 Speaker 1: an into my under arm and kind of made like 10 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 1: a chicken flapping motion to try to make sound, to 11 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:48,440 Speaker 1: make my body talk. Okay, I didn't know what. I 12 00:00:48,479 --> 00:00:50,360 Speaker 1: had no idea why you were doing. Really, I get 13 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:54,160 Speaker 1: it now. My hand smells funny. Now. Olivia Newton John 14 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:57,720 Speaker 1: would not approve. I was once kicked out of an 15 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:03,240 Speaker 1: Olivia Newton John concert for being too rowdy? Are you serious? What? 16 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:08,000 Speaker 1: I need a little bit more on that. I'll tell you. 17 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:15,640 Speaker 1: I'll tell you another time. Okay, Wow, Chuck gosh. You've 18 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:18,119 Speaker 1: heard of this body called the United Nations. Some say 19 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:22,040 Speaker 1: it's fraudulent, some say it's official. Yeah, of course, um, 20 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:24,640 Speaker 1: but you are familiar with you. I've been down to 21 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:27,640 Speaker 1: N been to that building? Have you really it was 22 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 1: Whenn't it like a Mike Brady design that building? Yeah, 23 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:35,200 Speaker 1: sort of that era. It feels like the flags. What 24 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 1: were you down there for? Well? I didn't go in. 25 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:40,000 Speaker 1: I just have been to New York and said, oh, 26 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 1: look there's an UN building. You just shouted at it. Yes, 27 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 1: out exactly. Um, the you win. In my opinion, it's 28 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:51,760 Speaker 1: a legitimate body, and I like it because it does 29 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:55,880 Speaker 1: things like try to reduce the number of people who 30 00:01:55,960 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 1: don't have ready access to clean water by half. It's 31 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 1: a huge undertaking, great initiative. But that's something that's going 32 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 1: on right now thanks to the u N. That's what 33 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 1: they can do. That's one of the things they can 34 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:12,080 Speaker 1: do is kind of like throw their spare tire about 35 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:16,520 Speaker 1: and be like, hey, China, let's do something. Yeah right, 36 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:22,120 Speaker 1: um and uh. I say that that's a substantial undertaking 37 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:26,120 Speaker 1: project because there's about one point one billion people as 38 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 1: of two thousand and six I believe, who lacked ready 39 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 1: access to clean drinking water right and it's it's hard 40 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 1: to imagine here and they developed West where we just 41 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 1: waste water, and in a startling degree, it's so cheap 42 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 1: and abundant and plentiful, especially in areas like the southwest 43 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:50,240 Speaker 1: or the southeast, which you know here in Georgia we 44 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:55,680 Speaker 1: have like our own um reservoir. The Chattahoochie River starts 45 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:59,680 Speaker 1: in North Georgia, so we have that, and then South 46 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 1: George has this huge aquifer, so we're set for clean 47 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:05,920 Speaker 1: drinking water. So it's hard to imagine having to walk 48 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 1: twenty kilometers to go get water and bring it back 49 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 1: and that be part of your daily life, you know, 50 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 1: but it is. And it's stuff like that that keeps 51 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:20,080 Speaker 1: the developing world undeveloped because how can you focus on 52 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 1: anything innovative if you have to walk twelve miles to 53 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:27,240 Speaker 1: get water every day? Yeah, if you're struggling just to 54 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 1: stay alive, what else you're gonna get done that day 55 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 1: besides meeting the goal of staying alive for yet another 56 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 1: day staying alive? Also, you know, again it's hard to envision. 57 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 1: We've talked about um, how how how much food and water? 58 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 1: How long can I go without food and water? And 59 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 1: all that was like we're trying to make it human, 60 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:49,360 Speaker 1: but it's it was tough to conceive. Imagine if the 61 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 1: water that you did go get when you brought it 62 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 1: back to your house, you drank it, and then a 63 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 1: couple of months later it killed you, like you died 64 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 1: from diarrhea. Literally. Yeah, you want a couple of stats, Yeah, please, 65 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 1: About fifty of the world's uh destitute people josh suffer 66 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 1: from disease because of the water that they cook with 67 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:10,120 Speaker 1: and drink and about. And this is really startling. Six 68 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 1: thousand people per day die from water borne illness. Could 69 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:19,360 Speaker 1: have been prevented people a day. It's like, that's such 70 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:22,600 Speaker 1: a huge figure that it's it becomes like this um, 71 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:26,560 Speaker 1: this mass that that doesn't have any real definition. It's 72 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:28,720 Speaker 1: hard to put faces to that, you know. Yeah, I 73 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 1: think about that tonight when you get a glass of 74 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 1: water from your tap. Just sucking bum everybody out think 75 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:37,400 Speaker 1: about today. Six thousand people die because they can't do 76 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 1: something as simple as this exactly, and um dead trombone. Now, Um. 77 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:49,360 Speaker 1: The way that people do die, it's not necessarily from thirst. 78 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:52,680 Speaker 1: It's usually not from thirst because there is water out there. 79 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:57,279 Speaker 1: The keyword here is um, sanitary, clean drinking water. Exactly. 80 00:04:57,320 --> 00:04:59,839 Speaker 1: There's water out there, but they're full of all sorts 81 00:04:59,839 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 1: of acteriathogens. Apparently there's about four billion cases of diarrhea 82 00:05:05,279 --> 00:05:10,279 Speaker 1: every year. I count for about two that is grass 83 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 1: this article um cites about one point eight million people 84 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 1: die every year from diarrhea. And and you but you 85 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:22,479 Speaker 1: become dehydrated. You do it so often that you become 86 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 1: dehydrated so quick that you die. And hydration brought on 87 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:30,200 Speaker 1: by diarrhea. And if you're already malnourished, that's where the 88 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 1: problem is. It's not you know, I could get dehydrated 89 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:36,000 Speaker 1: and drink more water, but if you're already malnourished. If 90 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:38,960 Speaker 1: you say, like have HIV and your child or even 91 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:44,400 Speaker 1: an adult with HIV, I think children get diarrhea at 92 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:46,839 Speaker 1: a rate of four times that if they have HIV, 93 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:49,800 Speaker 1: and adults are seven times more likely to get diarrhea 94 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:52,640 Speaker 1: if they have HIV. And developing nations a lot of 95 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:57,039 Speaker 1: people have HIV. Yeah about like HIV cases are found 96 00:05:57,040 --> 00:05:59,920 Speaker 1: in developing nations. So couple that all together, and you 97 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,000 Speaker 1: have people dying because of something as simple as diarrhea. 98 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 1: That's just a nuisance to people like us. And we said, yeah, 99 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 1: we just go get the ammonium. But imagine a world 100 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:13,480 Speaker 1: where there is no ammodium. I don't take amodium um. 101 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:17,239 Speaker 1: But so that's so I can imagine that world weird anyway. 102 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 1: The article cites one point eight million deaths from from 103 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:24,440 Speaker 1: diarrhea um. I would dispute that. I found that Giardia, 104 00:06:24,839 --> 00:06:30,120 Speaker 1: which is a diarrheal parasite um, causes two point five 105 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:34,120 Speaker 1: million deaths alone, and cryptosporidium, which is also a parasite 106 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:37,800 Speaker 1: that brings on diarrhea causes about three point five million 107 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:41,560 Speaker 1: deaths worldwide alone. So just between those two bugs and 108 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:46,600 Speaker 1: six million deaths a year from diarrhea dying of diarrhea. 109 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:51,479 Speaker 1: And again, as we're saying, this is all from access 110 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:54,320 Speaker 1: to a lack of access to clean drinking water. Right. 111 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 1: So that's right, Josh, And hopefully there is a solution 112 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:04,320 Speaker 1: on the rising. And about five years ago someone made 113 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:08,719 Speaker 1: great strides and solving this. A guy from what was 114 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:13,360 Speaker 1: his name? His name is Torben vaster guard Franson. Yes 115 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:18,720 Speaker 1: he's Swiss, yes, and Dutch or Danish? Does he? I 116 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 1: didn't know the Swiss head names that fancy. The Swiss 117 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:23,000 Speaker 1: are gonna write in and say, of course we have 118 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 1: names that fancy, how dare you? Yeah, Josh? He developed 119 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 1: something called life straw and uh, it's a company based 120 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 1: out of Lausanne and Laosanne. I said it like I 121 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:44,000 Speaker 1: was from laos though, um is it Lusanne? In they 122 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 1: basically produced stuff for clothing, but inwo they started to 123 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:51,320 Speaker 1: make relief products like tents and blankets. About five years 124 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:54,640 Speaker 1: after that they phased out all their conventional textiles to 125 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 1: concentrate on relief products. And in two thousand five is 126 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 1: when uh sister Franzen developed the life straw because he 127 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:06,600 Speaker 1: was looking at a way to help guinea worm. Right. 128 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:09,239 Speaker 1: Do you remember when that speaker from the Carter Center 129 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:11,840 Speaker 1: came and talk to us. Yes, remember that pipe straw 130 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 1: that they had, Yeah, So that was the original life straw. 131 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:18,280 Speaker 1: It was just as no frilled black tube that has 132 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:21,840 Speaker 1: a steel mesh filter in it because the Volkswagen. Yeah. 133 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:24,520 Speaker 1: And it has a string that you you can um 134 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 1: that allows you to wear it around your neck so 135 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:29,800 Speaker 1: you always have it with you. It's not it's not cumbersome. UM. 136 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:31,800 Speaker 1: And then what you do is you just lean into 137 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:34,760 Speaker 1: the water and you drink, drink it, use it like 138 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:38,679 Speaker 1: a straw, h and it filters the water. This specifically 139 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:44,000 Speaker 1: the original it's still called the personal pipe filter. UM. 140 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:47,600 Speaker 1: It originally was designed with the help of the carter 141 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:51,520 Speaker 1: center um to fight guinea worm. Yeah, we actually mentioned 142 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:54,160 Speaker 1: this and that food and water was the parasit. I 143 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:55,680 Speaker 1: think it was a guinea worm was one of the 144 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:58,600 Speaker 1: three growth parasites. Yeah, and and I think I had 145 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:00,440 Speaker 1: a little sidebar on it two in the food water. 146 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:02,120 Speaker 1: Let's hear it. And now is the time we talk 147 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:04,640 Speaker 1: about guinea worm. I don't know. I was talking about 148 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:07,560 Speaker 1: the LifeStraw. We have previously mentioned this, but we felt 149 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:10,320 Speaker 1: like it deserved its own full Well, that's what gave. 150 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 1: It's what gave the LifeStraw. It's birth, I guess in 151 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:16,480 Speaker 1: in two thousand and five, I guess is when they 152 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:20,160 Speaker 1: really came up with this this personal pipe filter and 153 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:24,320 Speaker 1: like we said, it filters out. Um. Do you remember 154 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:30,720 Speaker 1: how to say this? Chuck? Is it dr cunlus, dracunculus, dracunculus, 155 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:34,760 Speaker 1: that's what it is, drcunculus. The guinea worm. Right, this 156 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:38,760 Speaker 1: this little s ob gets um, it goes down in 157 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:43,000 Speaker 1: your intestine, lodges, reproduces, and then eventually travels down usually 158 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 1: to your leg right, and then when it's exposed to water. Next, 159 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:48,200 Speaker 1: once it's ready to come out and it's grow and 160 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:51,160 Speaker 1: do about a meter in length. Um. The next time 161 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:55,319 Speaker 1: it's exposed to water, this milky substance, it's actually millions 162 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:59,720 Speaker 1: of guinea worm larva go right into the water supply 163 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:02,800 Speaker 1: and the whole life cycle is brought on again and 164 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:05,480 Speaker 1: again and again. Yeah. So what happens in these developing nations. 165 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:08,920 Speaker 1: People go down to the river to wash their wound 166 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:12,080 Speaker 1: or just to be in the river, and then everybody, 167 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:13,720 Speaker 1: all of a sudden the rivers infected and people are 168 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:16,000 Speaker 1: drinking out of it. And that's just one of the diseases. 169 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 1: There are many, many, right, But that's what gave rise 170 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 1: to this life straw. The problem is the original personal 171 00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:25,520 Speaker 1: pipe filter. It was large. The the filter was large. 172 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:29,920 Speaker 1: So the guy Torbin right Mr. Flourished name went back 173 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:32,960 Speaker 1: to the drawing board and created life straw which is 174 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:38,200 Speaker 1: much more um I guess, detailed, and and is much 175 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:43,360 Speaker 1: more effective at at removing pathogens and bacteria and parasites. Yeah, 176 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:45,920 Speaker 1: and as it as it exists today. The personal life 177 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:49,240 Speaker 1: straw is about ten inches long twenty for our friends 178 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:52,960 Speaker 1: everywhere else in the world, about two I'm sorry about 179 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:56,720 Speaker 1: an engine around It's made of plastic. Like you said, 180 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:58,640 Speaker 1: you wear it around your neck. So you've always got it. 181 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:01,880 Speaker 1: And it takes about eight minutes to drink a quart 182 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:05,240 Speaker 1: of water, which you probably shouldn't be drinking a quart 183 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:09,439 Speaker 1: of water faster than eight minutes. Should we walk through 184 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:12,120 Speaker 1: how how this one works actually, because that's what we did. 185 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:14,800 Speaker 1: Ingenious and its simplicity, well it is, and you know 186 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:20,480 Speaker 1: they've I've had these with um emergency drinking straws, filtration 187 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:23,880 Speaker 1: straws in my backpack for years, so it's not like 188 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 1: it was a brand new idea. No, those are all 189 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:29,640 Speaker 1: classified as what's called the p o U water purification 190 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:32,320 Speaker 1: systems point of use. Yeah, exactly right, look at you. 191 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 1: So what happens. Obviously you suck the water through. It 192 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:38,199 Speaker 1: goes through a filter at first that removes the big stuff. 193 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:45,520 Speaker 1: Then there's a polyester filter that gets things much smaller, 194 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:48,760 Speaker 1: down to about fifteen microns, which is about a tenth 195 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:51,040 Speaker 1: of the diameter of a human hair. Yeah, and that's 196 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:53,880 Speaker 1: actually small enough to catch bacteria most most specter. So 197 00:11:53,920 --> 00:11:56,400 Speaker 1: that's really yeah, that's true. Uh so that's really small. 198 00:11:56,480 --> 00:12:00,160 Speaker 1: And then it goes through iodine coated beads resin beads, 199 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:03,319 Speaker 1: and iodine is a halogen and I used to put 200 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:06,600 Speaker 1: iodine pills in water when I was camping too, so 201 00:12:06,679 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 1: it has the same effect that kills parasites, viruses a 202 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:14,680 Speaker 1: lot of bacteria, and they're in a little chamber that 203 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:17,120 Speaker 1: you know gets the most bang for your buck as 204 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:19,400 Speaker 1: far as touching the water. Then it goes into an 205 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:22,960 Speaker 1: empty chamber, and then it passes through the carbon filter, 206 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:25,480 Speaker 1: which is the final step. And everyone knows that carbon 207 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:29,200 Speaker 1: um helps helps it taste better. It's very porous and 208 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:33,640 Speaker 1: does a good job of cleaning things like odors. So 209 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:35,560 Speaker 1: so you lean down and you drink the water out 210 00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:38,120 Speaker 1: of any water source and then when you're done, you 211 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:41,320 Speaker 1: blow air through it and that pretty much blurs out 212 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:46,320 Speaker 1: the stuff that you caught f and then you go 213 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:48,760 Speaker 1: back to doing whatever you're doing. This could be the 214 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:51,640 Speaker 1: end of our show eight minutes later, drink after corn 215 00:12:51,679 --> 00:12:54,520 Speaker 1: of water. But it gets better. It does with the 216 00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:58,080 Speaker 1: LifeStraw family. Yeah, so chuck over its lifespan. The the 217 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:03,920 Speaker 1: personal um life straw can filter about seven hundred courts 218 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:07,920 Speaker 1: of water, so taking that that's about two courts a day. 219 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:11,640 Speaker 1: Um that lasts for a full year. Okay, so you 220 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:13,120 Speaker 1: get your life straw, you use it for a year, 221 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 1: you get another one, the Family one, is much more effective. 222 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:22,400 Speaker 1: I think it's uh. It filters enough to to keep 223 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:26,079 Speaker 1: a family of five in water for three years before 224 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:30,679 Speaker 1: it needs to be replaced ten quarts an hour by comparison, 225 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:33,360 Speaker 1: which is obviously why they call it the Family one, right, 226 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:36,440 Speaker 1: And it does about eighteen thousand courts over its lifespan 227 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:38,920 Speaker 1: of three years. Right, Yeah, And it's kind of similar, right, 228 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:41,280 Speaker 1: but it's just larger and it uses gravity, and it's 229 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:43,480 Speaker 1: got a couple of more parts to it. And you 230 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:46,720 Speaker 1: just said the magic word, Like there are all sorts 231 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:50,360 Speaker 1: of water purification systems out there that require things like 232 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:54,280 Speaker 1: electricity or a diesel generator or something that you don't 233 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:57,680 Speaker 1: necessarily have. The cool thing about life straw and a 234 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:01,000 Speaker 1: life straw family UM water fill terms is that, like 235 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:04,400 Speaker 1: you said, it uses gravity um or with the lifestock 236 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:08,760 Speaker 1: personal suction UM, but with the family version, there's like 237 00:14:08,760 --> 00:14:11,360 Speaker 1: a bucket at the top that has like that initial filter, 238 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:16,679 Speaker 1: and then it goes down through increasingly smaller by micron 239 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:20,880 Speaker 1: textile filters. It goes through a halogen chamber that releases 240 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:24,600 Speaker 1: a low level amount of chlorine right um, and then 241 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:28,040 Speaker 1: it hits the plastic hose so just exiting the bucket, 242 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:31,920 Speaker 1: it's already been filtered three times, goes down this hose 243 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:35,400 Speaker 1: down to another cartridge that that This is where the 244 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:39,240 Speaker 1: ultrafiltration takes place, and it's also where it's um discharged 245 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:42,120 Speaker 1: after that um And the cool thing is is after 246 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 1: you're done, you can squeeze his cleaning bulb three times 247 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:50,480 Speaker 1: and basically it back flows all the impurities and there's 248 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:53,000 Speaker 1: a separate tap to get rid of that, so you 249 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:56,200 Speaker 1: clean it very easily. You don't need anything extra. It's 250 00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:59,680 Speaker 1: all self contained and it uses gravity, no electricity, no anything. 251 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 1: Brilliant and its simplicity just like it's smaller buddy, right. 252 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:06,680 Speaker 1: But it also it saves five people's lives for three 253 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:09,360 Speaker 1: years rather than one one person's life for a year, right, 254 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 1: and doesn't have a little spicket at the bottom, so 255 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:12,960 Speaker 1: you can kind of use it as a as if 256 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:16,520 Speaker 1: it were a repository of water. Yeah, that's exactly what 257 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:18,720 Speaker 1: it is too. By the time it gets out of 258 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:21,800 Speaker 1: that tap, no matter where it is, it's gone through 259 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:24,720 Speaker 1: this filtration process. So yes, it is a repository. That's 260 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:28,720 Speaker 1: that's right. And at the end of this process, my dude, friend, 261 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:32,920 Speaker 1: you are going to have nothing in their particle wise 262 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:37,920 Speaker 1: larger than a droplet of fog, right, a droplet of fog, 263 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:41,160 Speaker 1: and that would be ninety nine percent of bacteria and viruses, 264 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:46,160 Speaker 1: including things like salmonella and shakila and uh enter A 265 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:50,720 Speaker 1: coccus and whatever. That last one is staff staff Yeah. Um. 266 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:53,800 Speaker 1: The problem is is that there are some pretty nasty 267 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:58,160 Speaker 1: bugs that are smaller than a droplet of fog, right, 268 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:01,400 Speaker 1: fifteen microns, right, because we said with the LifeStraw, and 269 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:04,120 Speaker 1: I think both of them the smallest, the the filter 270 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:07,480 Speaker 1: goes down to his fifteen microns. Yeah, um, some nasty 271 00:16:07,520 --> 00:16:12,680 Speaker 1: ones too. Unfortunately, remember we talked about cryptosporidium and Giardia. 272 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:15,120 Speaker 1: Both of those are smaller than fifteen microns and even 273 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:19,880 Speaker 1: worse than that, Giardia um is actually resistant to iodine, 274 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:24,600 Speaker 1: which is the LifeStraw. Personal is like big, like the 275 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:28,280 Speaker 1: the last death blow is that running it through that 276 00:16:28,440 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 1: those those um halogenized resin beads, right, And actually we 277 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:36,240 Speaker 1: need to point out that's just for the personal. Actually, 278 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:40,120 Speaker 1: the family one does filter out the Giardia and the cryptosporidium, 279 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:44,120 Speaker 1: which is good, but the personal doesn't because that's you know, 280 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:45,800 Speaker 1: it's about as good as they can do for a 281 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:49,680 Speaker 1: little ten inch personal system right. It Also, UM doesn't 282 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:53,440 Speaker 1: filter out heavy metals fluoride, So if you don't want 283 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:57,240 Speaker 1: to get dumber, you're out of luck. Slayer what mega death? 284 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:01,800 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, nice? Are you know? It's sad as 285 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:04,640 Speaker 1: It took me a second figure you didn't laugh at first, 286 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:05,879 Speaker 1: and then and I was like, I just want to 287 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:09,280 Speaker 1: crawl under this desk um arsenic. So if you're in 288 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:11,280 Speaker 1: a if you're in a if you're a poor person 289 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:16,000 Speaker 1: in a developed area that has all sorts of factories 290 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:19,280 Speaker 1: but no environmental regulations, you're kind of out of luck 291 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:22,080 Speaker 1: with LifeStraw personnel as well well. And there that comes 292 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 1: in an effect though in a case of like a 293 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:27,320 Speaker 1: urban disasters, because they start to send these two places 294 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:29,880 Speaker 1: like New Orleans and so in that kind of case 295 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:32,360 Speaker 1: you'd be kind of out of luck with the fluoride 296 00:17:32,359 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 1: and stuff. So there there are some things that that 297 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:40,679 Speaker 1: the LifeStraw can't do right UM. And as a result, 298 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:43,200 Speaker 1: there's a lot of people out there who are dedicated 299 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:46,440 Speaker 1: to making sure that people get clean water who are 300 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:49,560 Speaker 1: saying like this is great, this is helpful, but UM 301 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:52,600 Speaker 1: at the same time, it's it's not really solving the problem. 302 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:54,680 Speaker 1: So like UM in this article, there is a guy 303 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:58,200 Speaker 1: named Paul Heatherington. He speaks for Water Aid, which is 304 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:00,760 Speaker 1: a British charity, and I think there's a lot of 305 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:03,800 Speaker 1: people who agree with them, UM that the way to 306 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:07,199 Speaker 1: really solve the water crisis in the developing world is 307 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:11,760 Speaker 1: to UM educate people on how to treat their water, 308 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:15,160 Speaker 1: how to take care of their water, and then after 309 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:19,480 Speaker 1: they understand this, or probably simultaneously is an even better idea, UM, 310 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:24,040 Speaker 1: give them a clean source of water that's nearby, dig 311 00:18:24,119 --> 00:18:27,800 Speaker 1: them a well. Remember, if you're walking to and from 312 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:30,399 Speaker 1: water twelve miles a day, you haven't gotten to the 313 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:34,080 Speaker 1: point where you're manufacturing heavy equipment that can dig you 314 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:37,400 Speaker 1: a well that will supply your village that comes later. Right, 315 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:41,240 Speaker 1: So a multi pronged approach, get get life straw in 316 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:44,880 Speaker 1: the hands of these people, work on the education. That's 317 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:47,399 Speaker 1: Chuck's advice, right, should go to them life straw so 318 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:49,679 Speaker 1: they can stay alive long enough to go to these 319 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:54,200 Speaker 1: education classes exactly. Obviously, Josh, education and changing an entire 320 00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:58,600 Speaker 1: culture of water, sanitation and hygiene is going to take 321 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:01,800 Speaker 1: a long time. So in meantime, get life straw in 322 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:05,560 Speaker 1: the hands of these families. And luckily there are a 323 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:09,679 Speaker 1: lot of companies, relief organizations, charities that are getting on 324 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:13,600 Speaker 1: board because even though they're only think like you get 325 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:15,000 Speaker 1: a deal in bulk, you can get them for about 326 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:16,840 Speaker 1: three bucks apiece if you're a big organization. But I 327 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:20,240 Speaker 1: think they're like five dollars just to buy a single one, 328 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 1: and that's even too much money for these people. Yeah, 329 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,160 Speaker 1: that's that's part of the problem. And that's another thing. 330 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:29,000 Speaker 1: I didn't see any criticism of Life Straw, of the 331 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:32,280 Speaker 1: company that manufactures life straw UM, but I get the 332 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:37,119 Speaker 1: impression that there's people out there UM, especially NGOs that 333 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:43,440 Speaker 1: are dedicated to water UM, that feel like companies that 334 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:50,440 Speaker 1: produce relief products are there not selling to these to 335 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:54,280 Speaker 1: their clients, their end users. They're selling their creating these things, 336 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:57,159 Speaker 1: are selling them in between two people like you and me, 337 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:01,040 Speaker 1: or rotary clubs or large corporation. Right, So I went 338 00:20:01,119 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 1: on and um, there's links on UM. What is how 339 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:07,679 Speaker 1: do you say this company's again best investor guard franz 340 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:10,840 Speaker 1: in um and it says donate. There's like a whole 341 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:14,399 Speaker 1: thing where there's links to the rotary club. There's one 342 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:16,320 Speaker 1: in Spain, there's one in the U k. And then 343 00:20:16,359 --> 00:20:19,159 Speaker 1: there's one in the US. They all have different sites 344 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:22,119 Speaker 1: you can donate. So when this it was supposed to 345 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:25,760 Speaker 1: be three bucks, I've seen five bucks. But then where 346 00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:27,760 Speaker 1: the rubber hits the road on this rotary site, it's 347 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:30,440 Speaker 1: six fifty for a life straw and then twenty five 348 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:37,119 Speaker 1: for the family unit, and ultimately it doesn't really matter. 349 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:39,520 Speaker 1: It's six fifty. You and I can afford that. And 350 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:41,440 Speaker 1: I think like we should kind of put out something 351 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:43,720 Speaker 1: of a challenge to the stuff. You should know listeners 352 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:47,520 Speaker 1: to donate one of these each. What do you think? 353 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:50,400 Speaker 1: Don't you think? So? Dude, we get like a couple 354 00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:54,359 Speaker 1: hundred thousand life straws out there, that'd be awesome. Okay, 355 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:56,760 Speaker 1: you're looking at me for approval, like I can says, 356 00:20:57,640 --> 00:20:59,520 Speaker 1: I don't want to do that today. I feel like 357 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:03,000 Speaker 1: going back to bed. And luckily, Josh, like I said, 358 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,000 Speaker 1: there are companies getting involved. And think this was just 359 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:09,600 Speaker 1: released today. Uh, the Danes have teamed up with Coca Cola, 360 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:13,760 Speaker 1: our own Atlanta's based Coca Cola, and Vest Guard friends 361 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:15,480 Speaker 1: in in a in a group called Water for All 362 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:18,520 Speaker 1: and they have a deal going Coca Cola apparently is 363 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:22,520 Speaker 1: the leading bottled water seller in the Nordic regions. It's 364 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:26,280 Speaker 1: called Killed Killed the Bold. Is there water that they 365 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:30,120 Speaker 1: sell there? You are good at Nordica? Probably all right. 366 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:33,040 Speaker 1: But they have a program called Three Leaders of Clean Water, 367 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:36,320 Speaker 1: and it's this partnership where they donate three Leaders of 368 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:40,520 Speaker 1: Clean Water to Africa for every purchase of Coca Cola's 369 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:45,640 Speaker 1: bottled water brand there. And just yesterday they donated twenty 370 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:51,240 Speaker 1: seven thousand life straw personal life straws through this partnership 371 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:55,440 Speaker 1: to Africa. See, I think I never got really, I 372 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:58,239 Speaker 1: can't get to finish my point. Vester gard Frandsen, Right, 373 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:01,840 Speaker 1: they are making the product that is very helpful. It's 374 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:09,000 Speaker 1: literally saving people's lives. Right. Um. I think anytime you 375 00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:14,320 Speaker 1: combine capitalism with relief efforts, it kind of turns my 376 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:16,840 Speaker 1: stomach a little bit. I don't mind it, but it 377 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:19,159 Speaker 1: seems like when I really step back and think about it, 378 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:24,040 Speaker 1: that's such an a Western elitist view of things, because 379 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:26,159 Speaker 1: it's like arguing with somebody like, well, why don't you 380 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:28,080 Speaker 1: charge a little less, why don't you donate some of 381 00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:30,960 Speaker 1: these and having a disagreement while there's somebody dying at 382 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:33,919 Speaker 1: your feet, you know. So, I mean I think it's 383 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:35,919 Speaker 1: this is one of those cases where it's like, just 384 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:39,080 Speaker 1: let's get these people their stuff and then we can 385 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:41,960 Speaker 1: have this conversation later. You know. Well, yeah, but unless 386 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:46,760 Speaker 1: it's a an NGO that has developed this and invented this, 387 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:49,879 Speaker 1: then you can't expect this guy to just go broke 388 00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:54,399 Speaker 1: giving these away. I don't And it was tricky though, 389 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:56,560 Speaker 1: I know what you're saying is and same same with 390 00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:59,680 Speaker 1: Code Cole. It's like, awesome, you know you helped foster 391 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:05,720 Speaker 1: this transportation of thousand um lifestraws to people who didn't 392 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:10,600 Speaker 1: have them. But like people begin with which a lot 393 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:12,280 Speaker 1: of people have a problem with buying bottle water in 394 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:15,119 Speaker 1: the first leg. So I think there's problems with it, 395 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:18,520 Speaker 1: But ultimately it's it's very very important not to lose 396 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:22,280 Speaker 1: sight of the that end user of life straw who's like, 397 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:25,240 Speaker 1: please send me one so I don't die. We should 398 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:28,919 Speaker 1: also mention too that um, the reason that you know 399 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:31,959 Speaker 1: we said that that that that company, the Friends and Company, 400 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:36,800 Speaker 1: quit making their other textile products was because they probably 401 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:39,399 Speaker 1: found that was a good market for these other things. 402 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:42,720 Speaker 1: Like they also make the permanent and zero fly, which 403 00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:46,119 Speaker 1: are these things? I think, is it Julia Roberts just 404 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:48,840 Speaker 1: really involved with the netting, the anti malaria netting. It 405 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:54,240 Speaker 1: seems like in uh Angelina Jolie thing to be involved 406 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:58,199 Speaker 1: in She's all about in the movie everything. Yeah, but 407 00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:00,680 Speaker 1: they also do manufacture those two produ ucks which which 408 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:04,000 Speaker 1: helped present prevent malaria, not present malaria, that would be 409 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:08,639 Speaker 1: a whole different malaria, come and get it. So they 410 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:14,480 Speaker 1: also have these care packs for HIV positive families and 411 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:19,119 Speaker 1: you get like a permanent and a life straw and antibiotics, condoms, 412 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:23,439 Speaker 1: things like that, some brochures and brochures to educate you. 413 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:26,680 Speaker 1: So they're doing good and we love it. We're behind 414 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:28,240 Speaker 1: it all the way. I don't want you to get 415 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:34,160 Speaker 1: the wrong idea from Josh's harsh words. Right, thank you checkers. Um, 416 00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:38,280 Speaker 1: they're not the only people creating stuff, and the Rotary 417 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:40,560 Speaker 1: Club isn't the only group that you can go through 418 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:44,600 Speaker 1: to donate things. Um again, Carter Centers dedicated to guinea worm. 419 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:46,960 Speaker 1: They kind of have their eyes on that prize because 420 00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:50,320 Speaker 1: we're on the brink of eradicating it from the planet, 421 00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:54,480 Speaker 1: like literally won't be found on Earth. Yeah, once I 422 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:57,760 Speaker 1: think two countries maybe three have it left. Um and 423 00:24:57,880 --> 00:24:59,679 Speaker 1: only be the second time that's ever happened in the 424 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:02,480 Speaker 1: history the world. What was the first one that polio? Yes, Josh, 425 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:04,840 Speaker 1: I think it was polio because this is the first 426 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:08,520 Speaker 1: parasitic disease, second disease overall. So the Carter Center really 427 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:10,119 Speaker 1: wants to get rid of this. So you can donate 428 00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:13,080 Speaker 1: to the Carter Center at Carter Center dot org, slash health, 429 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:17,240 Speaker 1: slash Guinea, underscore worm and that will take you to 430 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:19,119 Speaker 1: their little mini site. You can do all sorts of 431 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:23,040 Speaker 1: donating there. You can go to vestor guard Franson dot com. 432 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:25,680 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and spell that one for you, okay, 433 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:29,320 Speaker 1: V E S T E R G A A r 434 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:33,639 Speaker 1: D hyphen f r A N D s E n 435 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 1: dot com and then slash donate. That's gonna take you 436 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:39,520 Speaker 1: to all these Koana sites. UM. And then there's a 437 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:43,280 Speaker 1: group called Project h Design dot org. So in this 438 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:46,400 Speaker 1: article it cited that they're um passing out life straws 439 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:50,600 Speaker 1: to people in India. UM, I didn't see that anywhere. 440 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:52,639 Speaker 1: It's not just in Africa. I mean this is happening 441 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:54,879 Speaker 1: all over the world, but Africa and is obviously a 442 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:59,480 Speaker 1: big ground zero for waterboorns. And yeah, in India is developed, 443 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:02,760 Speaker 1: being as that country is, I think a significant portion 444 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:07,920 Speaker 1: of people in that nation, uh sixteen million residents which 445 00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:14,840 Speaker 1: is surprisingly that's of New Delhi's sixteen million residents don't 446 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:18,560 Speaker 1: have access to clean drinking water. Um. So yeah, it's 447 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:21,639 Speaker 1: not just in Africa. Uh. I didn't see Project H 448 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:25,640 Speaker 1: designs water or lifestyle project, but they did have something 449 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:28,920 Speaker 1: called the hippo roller. It's you know what a sod 450 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:32,040 Speaker 1: roller is. It's like a big drum with like uh 451 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:37,360 Speaker 1: I guess a handles attached, like a lawnmower handle. It's this, 452 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:41,240 Speaker 1: but the drum in this case is plastic and you 453 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:43,320 Speaker 1: take it to your water source, fill it up up 454 00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:45,440 Speaker 1: to twenty five gallons, and just roll it back home, 455 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:48,520 Speaker 1: so you don't have the big thing on your head. No, 456 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:51,640 Speaker 1: and it's huge most of the time. Apparently people can 457 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:54,240 Speaker 1: haul five to six gallons at a time. This allows 458 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:57,200 Speaker 1: them to basically make five trips and once those are 459 00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:59,880 Speaker 1: a hundred bucks um and you can go onto Project 460 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:03,920 Speaker 1: H design dot org um and find out about do 461 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:05,639 Speaker 1: any of that. And they have a bunch of different 462 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:09,879 Speaker 1: cool ones, cool projects that they're funding. And here's my 463 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:13,440 Speaker 1: final call, Josh. I would encourage people to try and 464 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:16,560 Speaker 1: conserve water on their own. It's not like the water 465 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:19,320 Speaker 1: that you can serve in your house and uh peoria 466 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,400 Speaker 1: is going to go to be bottled up in chip 467 00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:25,359 Speaker 1: to Africa. But we went through our drought here in 468 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:28,840 Speaker 1: Atlanta last summer and we had all kinds of water restrictions, 469 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:32,000 Speaker 1: and Emily and I really got used to the idea of, 470 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:36,280 Speaker 1: you know, water is a limited resource and you shouldn't 471 00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:38,919 Speaker 1: just waste it. And we really gotten that that. You know, 472 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,280 Speaker 1: we're not like using our bathwater to do our dishes, 473 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,680 Speaker 1: but we collect our water from our a C unit 474 00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 1: and water our plants and we like I never pour 475 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:50,600 Speaker 1: water out like that I'm drinking that's gotten, you know, tepid. 476 00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:52,960 Speaker 1: I always like pouring a plant. Just try and reuse 477 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:55,560 Speaker 1: what I can, So I would encourage people to do that. 478 00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:58,080 Speaker 1: I always pour it on myself in a sexy manner, 479 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:00,639 Speaker 1: give my T shirt. That's to do with it. And 480 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:03,719 Speaker 1: it's not wasteful at all. It's well worth it. So 481 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:08,159 Speaker 1: we'll see what happens after um the giant nations of 482 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:10,240 Speaker 1: the world are drawn into World War three, and the 483 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:16,600 Speaker 1: Balkans over water conflicts in Until then, we'll keep podcasting, right, 484 00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:19,800 Speaker 1: and if you want to learn more about life straw, 485 00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:23,440 Speaker 1: I strongly recommend you, guys, go type that word L 486 00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:26,159 Speaker 1: I F E S T R A W into the 487 00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:29,280 Speaker 1: swinging search bar how stuff works dot com and Chuck, 488 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:36,040 Speaker 1: Now it is time for a listener, man, Josh, I'm 489 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:43,360 Speaker 1: gonna call this a couple of emails about uh madaffanel. Okay, 490 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:46,600 Speaker 1: remember we talked about that in Is Science Facing Out Sleep? 491 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:49,040 Speaker 1: I do I like that one? You want to give 492 00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:51,160 Speaker 1: a quick rundown on what what that product? What that 493 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:58,760 Speaker 1: product is? Madaffanel is a non stimulant um I guess 494 00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:03,800 Speaker 1: drug of arousal that people that was originally designed for knocleptics, 495 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,920 Speaker 1: and suddenly people who don't like to sleep and like 496 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:08,880 Speaker 1: to get things done for forty eight hours at a 497 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:13,240 Speaker 1: stretch without feeling tired started taking That's right. So we 498 00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:19,040 Speaker 1: got one from a neurobiology um major. So he is 499 00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:22,760 Speaker 1: a neuroscience major and he's Dave A. K A the professor, 500 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:24,560 Speaker 1: and he has just to say, guys are writing in 501 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:28,440 Speaker 1: as a neuroscientist, and you're probably scared that I'm writing 502 00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:31,640 Speaker 1: you with a pocket protected complaint about the number of 503 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:36,960 Speaker 1: times you incorrectly said munafodil instead of medaffanel. Seven. He 504 00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:40,000 Speaker 1: points out, Yeah, we got it backwards, which is not 505 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:43,160 Speaker 1: unlike us. But fear not, guys are coming peace. I'm 506 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:50,640 Speaker 1: a PhD student from Toronto, Canada but studying neurobiology of 507 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:55,040 Speaker 1: cocaine addiction. UM familiar with madaffanel because it has regular 508 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:58,360 Speaker 1: recently undergone clinical trials for use as a treatment for 509 00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:01,760 Speaker 1: cocaine addiction. It has thought that medeffanel could work for 510 00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:05,240 Speaker 1: cocaine dependence the same way methodone works for heroin as 511 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:07,680 Speaker 1: a maintenance treatment, but the results are inconclusive right now, 512 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:10,320 Speaker 1: A word of caution to just because a drug like 513 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:14,760 Speaker 1: medeffanel doesn't directly impact dopamine systems in the brain doesn't 514 00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:18,520 Speaker 1: mean it can't have rewarding and addictive effects. Do you 515 00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:22,160 Speaker 1: everythink of that? I did, any drug that can keep 516 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:23,600 Speaker 1: you up all night so you can be twice as 517 00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:26,480 Speaker 1: productive as a potential to be addictive, because productivity itself 518 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:29,440 Speaker 1: can be extremely rewarding. I never really thought about that. 519 00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:33,480 Speaker 1: That's great, So it's like indirectly addictive. Then yeah, lastly, 520 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:35,520 Speaker 1: at the risk of being two technical. More and more 521 00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:39,120 Speaker 1: evidence is suggesting that glutamate and GABBA G A B A, 522 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:43,360 Speaker 1: the neurotransmitters directly impacted by medefanel, play an important role 523 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:46,560 Speaker 1: in addiction, perhaps even more so than dopamine. In fact, 524 00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:50,120 Speaker 1: by altering dopamine levels, drugs like cocaine make long term 525 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:53,360 Speaker 1: changes in glutamate and GABA circuits in the brain, and 526 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:57,000 Speaker 1: these changes are thought to underlie addictive behavior. You say, 527 00:30:57,040 --> 00:31:04,080 Speaker 1: cocaine exactly like Glen Fry. It's chilling cocaine. Thanks a lot, guys. 528 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:06,440 Speaker 1: I swear on my medaffanel that I won't sleep until 529 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:10,560 Speaker 1: I see a podcast on addiction. Man, this is so crazy. 530 00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:13,080 Speaker 1: He's like a big person in a week to predict 531 00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:18,000 Speaker 1: an upcoming podcast or that would have already come out 532 00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:20,800 Speaker 1: by now. That's right. That was from Dave the professor, 533 00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:22,880 Speaker 1: and then we had another note from Andrew. He said, 534 00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:25,560 Speaker 1: I just listen to your Now you went too angry. 535 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:27,960 Speaker 1: Just listen to your podcast on facing out Sleep. Was 536 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:30,600 Speaker 1: a little bothered by your one sided bashing of medaffanel. 537 00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:33,400 Speaker 1: A little bothered. That's angry. You focused on people who 538 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:35,959 Speaker 1: abuse medeffanel by using it. To avoid sleep. I've been 539 00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:38,400 Speaker 1: using it for my sleep at mia for three years 540 00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:41,680 Speaker 1: and has greatly improved my quality of life. Prior to this, 541 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:43,320 Speaker 1: I would sleep eight hours a night and still be 542 00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:45,120 Speaker 1: tired all day. Now I sleep eight hours a night, 543 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,320 Speaker 1: feel awake and alert the rest of the day. Ethical 544 00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:51,520 Speaker 1: doctors aren't prescribing this to allow patients to avoid sleeping. 545 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,480 Speaker 1: They prescribe it to patients who have a medical condition 546 00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:57,920 Speaker 1: which caused them to be tired despite having had enough sleep. 547 00:31:58,440 --> 00:31:59,920 Speaker 1: And he says I still love the show, so he 548 00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:06,200 Speaker 1: wasn't really angry, Signed the chairman of the maker of Madafanelnafadel, 549 00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:11,760 Speaker 1: I mean Dan Andrew. Yes see, you got it wrong. 550 00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:16,080 Speaker 1: That's right if you have a correction, specifically, if you're 551 00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:19,440 Speaker 1: a neurobiologist, we love hearing from experts. We should keep 552 00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:21,640 Speaker 1: his email addressed to Okay, let's do it so in 553 00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:25,760 Speaker 1: case we have questions and and don't forget we're all 554 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:31,040 Speaker 1: starting the push now to um donate life straws, right chuck, Yeah, yeah, 555 00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:33,240 Speaker 1: So we're going to figure this out. Well, we'll look 556 00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:35,120 Speaker 1: for more information soon. In the meantime, if you want 557 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:38,600 Speaker 1: to donate a life straw, knock yourself out agreed. Uh. 558 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:41,000 Speaker 1: If you are an expert in your field and you 559 00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:43,000 Speaker 1: think that what you have to say would interest us, 560 00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:46,640 Speaker 1: we want to know yes we do. 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