WEBVTT - Can Lifestraw save the world? 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.840 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:07.560 It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you should know 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:16.320 from house Stuff Works dot Com? Hey, and welcome to 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:20.000 the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, Charles W Chuck Bryan. Isn't 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:22.920 this proper place across from me that makes this stuff 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:27.240 you should know? Let's get physical physical, let me hear 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:32.760 your body talk. You're ready. I couldn't quite do it. 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:36.920 You should probably explain that I put my hand under 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:40.199 an into my under arm and kind of made like 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:44.040 a chicken flapping motion to try to make sound, to 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:48.440 make my body talk. Okay, I didn't know what. I 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:50.360 had no idea why you were doing. Really, I get 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:54.160 it now. My hand smells funny. Now. Olivia Newton John 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:57.720 would not approve. I was once kicked out of an 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:03.240 Olivia Newton John concert for being too rowdy? Are you serious? What? 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:08.000 I need a little bit more on that. I'll tell you. 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:15.640 I'll tell you another time. Okay, Wow, Chuck gosh. You've 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:18.119 heard of this body called the United Nations. Some say 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:22.040 it's fraudulent, some say it's official. Yeah, of course, um, 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:24.640 but you are familiar with you. I've been down to 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:27.640 N been to that building? Have you really it was 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:31.640 Whenn't it like a Mike Brady design that building? Yeah, 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:35.200 sort of that era. It feels like the flags. What 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:37.720 were you down there for? Well? I didn't go in. 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:40.000 I just have been to New York and said, oh, 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:42.640 look there's an UN building. You just shouted at it. Yes, 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:48.360 out exactly. Um, the you win. In my opinion, it's 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:51.760 a legitimate body, and I like it because it does 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:55.880 things like try to reduce the number of people who 0:01:55.960 --> 0:02:01.520 don't have ready access to clean water by half. It's 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:04.600 a huge undertaking, great initiative. But that's something that's going 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:06.600 on right now thanks to the u N. That's what 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:08.280 they can do. That's one of the things they can 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:12.080 do is kind of like throw their spare tire about 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:16.520 and be like, hey, China, let's do something. Yeah right, 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:22.120 um and uh. I say that that's a substantial undertaking 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:26.120 project because there's about one point one billion people as 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:29.320 of two thousand and six I believe, who lacked ready 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:34.440 access to clean drinking water right and it's it's hard 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:37.320 to imagine here and they developed West where we just 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:43.000 waste water, and in a startling degree, it's so cheap 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:47.480 and abundant and plentiful, especially in areas like the southwest 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:50.240 or the southeast, which you know here in Georgia we 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:55.680 have like our own um reservoir. The Chattahoochie River starts 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:59.680 in North Georgia, so we have that, and then South 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:03.160 George has this huge aquifer, so we're set for clean 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:05.920 drinking water. So it's hard to imagine having to walk 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:09.320 twenty kilometers to go get water and bring it back 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:12.160 and that be part of your daily life, you know, 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:14.440 but it is. And it's stuff like that that keeps 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:20.080 the developing world undeveloped because how can you focus on 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:24.720 anything innovative if you have to walk twelve miles to 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:27.240 get water every day? Yeah, if you're struggling just to 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:30.440 stay alive, what else you're gonna get done that day 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:33.880 besides meeting the goal of staying alive for yet another 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:37.560 day staying alive? Also, you know, again it's hard to envision. 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:41.920 We've talked about um, how how how much food and water? 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:44.200 How long can I go without food and water? And 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:46.600 all that was like we're trying to make it human, 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:49.360 but it's it was tough to conceive. Imagine if the 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:51.760 water that you did go get when you brought it 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:53.520 back to your house, you drank it, and then a 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:55.680 couple of months later it killed you, like you died 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:59.440 from diarrhea. Literally. Yeah, you want a couple of stats, Yeah, please, 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:04.680 About fifty of the world's uh destitute people josh suffer 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:06.880 from disease because of the water that they cook with 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:10.120 and drink and about. And this is really startling. Six 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:15.240 thousand people per day die from water borne illness. Could 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:19.360 have been prevented people a day. It's like, that's such 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:22.600 a huge figure that it's it becomes like this um, 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:26.560 this mass that that doesn't have any real definition. It's 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:28.720 hard to put faces to that, you know. Yeah, I 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:31.680 think about that tonight when you get a glass of 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:35.080 water from your tap. Just sucking bum everybody out think 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:37.400 about today. Six thousand people die because they can't do 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:46.000 something as simple as this exactly, and um dead trombone. Now, Um. 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:49.360 The way that people do die, it's not necessarily from thirst. 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:52.680 It's usually not from thirst because there is water out there. 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:57.279 The keyword here is um, sanitary, clean drinking water. Exactly. 0:04:57.320 --> 0:04:59.839 There's water out there, but they're full of all sorts 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:05.200 of acteriathogens. Apparently there's about four billion cases of diarrhea 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:10.279 every year. I count for about two that is grass 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:15.080 this article um cites about one point eight million people 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:19.880 die every year from diarrhea. And and you but you 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:22.479 become dehydrated. You do it so often that you become 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:27.120 dehydrated so quick that you die. And hydration brought on 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:30.200 by diarrhea. And if you're already malnourished, that's where the 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:33.880 problem is. It's not you know, I could get dehydrated 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:36.000 and drink more water, but if you're already malnourished. If 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:38.960 you say, like have HIV and your child or even 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:44.400 an adult with HIV, I think children get diarrhea at 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:46.839 a rate of four times that if they have HIV, 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:49.800 and adults are seven times more likely to get diarrhea 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:52.640 if they have HIV. And developing nations a lot of 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:57.039 people have HIV. Yeah about like HIV cases are found 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:59.920 in developing nations. So couple that all together, and you 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:03.000 have people dying because of something as simple as diarrhea. 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:05.960 That's just a nuisance to people like us. And we said, yeah, 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:09.000 we just go get the ammonium. But imagine a world 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:13.480 where there is no ammodium. I don't take amodium um. 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:17.239 But so that's so I can imagine that world weird anyway. 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:20.000 The article cites one point eight million deaths from from 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:24.440 diarrhea um. I would dispute that. I found that Giardia, 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:30.120 which is a diarrheal parasite um, causes two point five 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:34.120 million deaths alone, and cryptosporidium, which is also a parasite 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:37.800 that brings on diarrhea causes about three point five million 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:41.560 deaths worldwide alone. So just between those two bugs and 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:46.600 six million deaths a year from diarrhea dying of diarrhea. 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:51.479 And again, as we're saying, this is all from access 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.320 to a lack of access to clean drinking water. Right. 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:59.240 So that's right, Josh, And hopefully there is a solution 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:04.320 on the rising. And about five years ago someone made 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:08.719 great strides and solving this. A guy from what was 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:13.360 his name? His name is Torben vaster guard Franson. Yes 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:18.720 he's Swiss, yes, and Dutch or Danish? Does he? I 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.560 didn't know the Swiss head names that fancy. The Swiss 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:23.000 are gonna write in and say, of course we have 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:26.160 names that fancy, how dare you? Yeah, Josh? He developed 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:29.720 something called life straw and uh, it's a company based 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:34.920 out of Lausanne and Laosanne. I said it like I 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:44.000 was from laos though, um is it Lusanne? In they 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:48.000 basically produced stuff for clothing, but inwo they started to 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:51.320 make relief products like tents and blankets. About five years 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:54.640 after that they phased out all their conventional textiles to 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:58.400 concentrate on relief products. And in two thousand five is 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:03.360 when uh sister Franzen developed the life straw because he 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:06.600 was looking at a way to help guinea worm. Right. 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:09.239 Do you remember when that speaker from the Carter Center 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:11.840 came and talk to us. Yes, remember that pipe straw 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:15.720 that they had, Yeah, So that was the original life straw. 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:18.280 It was just as no frilled black tube that has 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:21.840 a steel mesh filter in it because the Volkswagen. Yeah. 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:24.520 And it has a string that you you can um 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:26.320 that allows you to wear it around your neck so 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:29.800 you always have it with you. It's not it's not cumbersome. UM. 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:31.800 And then what you do is you just lean into 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:34.760 the water and you drink, drink it, use it like 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:38.679 a straw, h and it filters the water. This specifically 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:44.000 the original it's still called the personal pipe filter. UM. 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:47.600 It originally was designed with the help of the carter 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:51.520 center um to fight guinea worm. Yeah, we actually mentioned 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:54.160 this and that food and water was the parasit. I 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:55.680 think it was a guinea worm was one of the 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:58.600 three growth parasites. Yeah, and and I think I had 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:00.440 a little sidebar on it two in the food water. 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:02.120 Let's hear it. And now is the time we talk 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:04.640 about guinea worm. I don't know. I was talking about 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:07.560 the LifeStraw. We have previously mentioned this, but we felt 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:10.320 like it deserved its own full Well, that's what gave. 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:14.240 It's what gave the LifeStraw. It's birth, I guess in 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:16.480 in two thousand and five, I guess is when they 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:20.160 really came up with this this personal pipe filter and 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:24.320 like we said, it filters out. Um. Do you remember 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:30.720 how to say this? Chuck? Is it dr cunlus, dracunculus, dracunculus, 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:34.760 that's what it is, drcunculus. The guinea worm. Right, this 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:38.760 this little s ob gets um, it goes down in 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:43.000 your intestine, lodges, reproduces, and then eventually travels down usually 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:46.280 to your leg right, and then when it's exposed to water. Next, 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.200 once it's ready to come out and it's grow and 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:51.160 do about a meter in length. Um. The next time 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:55.319 it's exposed to water, this milky substance, it's actually millions 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:59.720 of guinea worm larva go right into the water supply 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:02.800 and the whole life cycle is brought on again and 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:05.480 again and again. Yeah. So what happens in these developing nations. 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:08.920 People go down to the river to wash their wound 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:12.080 or just to be in the river, and then everybody, 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:13.720 all of a sudden the rivers infected and people are 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:16.000 drinking out of it. And that's just one of the diseases. 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:18.280 There are many, many, right, But that's what gave rise 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:21.520 to this life straw. The problem is the original personal 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:25.520 pipe filter. It was large. The the filter was large. 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:29.920 So the guy Torbin right Mr. Flourished name went back 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:32.960 to the drawing board and created life straw which is 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:38.200 much more um I guess, detailed, and and is much 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:43.360 more effective at at removing pathogens and bacteria and parasites. Yeah, 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:45.920 and as it as it exists today. The personal life 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:49.240 straw is about ten inches long twenty for our friends 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:52.960 everywhere else in the world, about two I'm sorry about 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:56.720 an engine around It's made of plastic. Like you said, 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:58.640 you wear it around your neck. So you've always got it. 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:01.880 And it takes about eight minutes to drink a quart 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:05.240 of water, which you probably shouldn't be drinking a quart 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:09.439 of water faster than eight minutes. Should we walk through 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:12.120 how how this one works actually, because that's what we did. 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:14.800 Ingenious and its simplicity, well it is, and you know 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:20.480 they've I've had these with um emergency drinking straws, filtration 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:23.880 straws in my backpack for years, so it's not like 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:26.360 it was a brand new idea. No, those are all 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:29.640 classified as what's called the p o U water purification 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:32.320 systems point of use. Yeah, exactly right, look at you. 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:35.280 So what happens. Obviously you suck the water through. It 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:38.199 goes through a filter at first that removes the big stuff. 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:45.520 Then there's a polyester filter that gets things much smaller, 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:48.760 down to about fifteen microns, which is about a tenth 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:51.040 of the diameter of a human hair. Yeah, and that's 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:53.880 actually small enough to catch bacteria most most specter. So 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:56.400 that's really yeah, that's true. Uh so that's really small. 0:11:56.480 --> 0:12:00.160 And then it goes through iodine coated beads resin beads, 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:03.319 and iodine is a halogen and I used to put 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:06.600 iodine pills in water when I was camping too, so 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:10.760 it has the same effect that kills parasites, viruses a 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:14.680 lot of bacteria, and they're in a little chamber that 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.120 you know gets the most bang for your buck as 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:19.400 far as touching the water. Then it goes into an 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:22.960 empty chamber, and then it passes through the carbon filter, 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:25.480 which is the final step. And everyone knows that carbon 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:29.200 um helps helps it taste better. It's very porous and 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:33.640 does a good job of cleaning things like odors. So 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:35.560 so you lean down and you drink the water out 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:38.120 of any water source and then when you're done, you 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:41.320 blow air through it and that pretty much blurs out 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:46.320 the stuff that you caught f and then you go 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:48.760 back to doing whatever you're doing. This could be the 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:51.640 end of our show eight minutes later, drink after corn 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:54.520 of water. But it gets better. It does with the 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:58.080 LifeStraw family. Yeah, so chuck over its lifespan. The the 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:03.920 personal um life straw can filter about seven hundred courts 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:07.920 of water, so taking that that's about two courts a day. 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:11.640 Um that lasts for a full year. Okay, so you 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:13.120 get your life straw, you use it for a year, 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:18.160 you get another one, the Family one, is much more effective. 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:22.400 I think it's uh. It filters enough to to keep 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:26.079 a family of five in water for three years before 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:30.679 it needs to be replaced ten quarts an hour by comparison, 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:33.360 which is obviously why they call it the Family one, right, 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:36.440 And it does about eighteen thousand courts over its lifespan 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:38.920 of three years. Right, Yeah, And it's kind of similar, right, 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:41.280 but it's just larger and it uses gravity, and it's 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:43.480 got a couple of more parts to it. And you 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:46.720 just said the magic word, Like there are all sorts 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:50.360 of water purification systems out there that require things like 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:54.280 electricity or a diesel generator or something that you don't 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:57.680 necessarily have. The cool thing about life straw and a 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:01.000 life straw family UM water fill terms is that, like 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:04.400 you said, it uses gravity um or with the lifestock 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:08.760 personal suction UM, but with the family version, there's like 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:11.360 a bucket at the top that has like that initial filter, 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:16.679 and then it goes down through increasingly smaller by micron 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:20.880 textile filters. It goes through a halogen chamber that releases 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:24.600 a low level amount of chlorine right um, and then 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:28.040 it hits the plastic hose so just exiting the bucket, 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:31.920 it's already been filtered three times, goes down this hose 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:35.400 down to another cartridge that that This is where the 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:39.240 ultrafiltration takes place, and it's also where it's um discharged 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:42.120 after that um And the cool thing is is after 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:45.720 you're done, you can squeeze his cleaning bulb three times 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:50.480 and basically it back flows all the impurities and there's 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:53.000 a separate tap to get rid of that, so you 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:56.200 clean it very easily. You don't need anything extra. It's 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:59.680 all self contained and it uses gravity, no electricity, no anything. 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:03.520 Brilliant and its simplicity just like it's smaller buddy, right. 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:06.680 But it also it saves five people's lives for three 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:09.360 years rather than one one person's life for a year, right, 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:10.960 and doesn't have a little spicket at the bottom, so 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:12.960 you can kind of use it as a as if 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:16.520 it were a repository of water. Yeah, that's exactly what 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:18.720 it is too. By the time it gets out of 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:21.800 that tap, no matter where it is, it's gone through 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.720 this filtration process. So yes, it is a repository. That's 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:28.720 that's right. And at the end of this process, my dude, friend, 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:32.920 you are going to have nothing in their particle wise 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:37.920 larger than a droplet of fog, right, a droplet of fog, 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:41.160 and that would be ninety nine percent of bacteria and viruses, 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:46.160 including things like salmonella and shakila and uh enter A 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:50.720 coccus and whatever. That last one is staff staff Yeah. Um. 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:53.800 The problem is is that there are some pretty nasty 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:58.160 bugs that are smaller than a droplet of fog, right, 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:01.400 fifteen microns, right, because we said with the LifeStraw, and 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:04.120 I think both of them the smallest, the the filter 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:07.480 goes down to his fifteen microns. Yeah, um, some nasty 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:12.680 ones too. Unfortunately, remember we talked about cryptosporidium and Giardia. 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:15.120 Both of those are smaller than fifteen microns and even 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:19.880 worse than that, Giardia um is actually resistant to iodine, 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:24.600 which is the LifeStraw. Personal is like big, like the 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:28.280 the last death blow is that running it through that 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:33.680 those those um halogenized resin beads, right, And actually we 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:36.240 need to point out that's just for the personal. Actually, 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:40.120 the family one does filter out the Giardia and the cryptosporidium, 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:44.120 which is good, but the personal doesn't because that's you know, 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:45.800 it's about as good as they can do for a 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:49.680 little ten inch personal system right. It Also, UM doesn't 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:53.440 filter out heavy metals fluoride, So if you don't want 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:57.240 to get dumber, you're out of luck. Slayer what mega death? 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:01.800 Oh yeah, okay, nice? Are you know? It's sad as 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:04.640 It took me a second figure you didn't laugh at first, 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:05.879 and then and I was like, I just want to 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:09.280 crawl under this desk um arsenic. So if you're in 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:11.280 a if you're in a if you're a poor person 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:16.000 in a developed area that has all sorts of factories 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:19.280 but no environmental regulations, you're kind of out of luck 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:22.080 with LifeStraw personnel as well well. And there that comes 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:23.760 in an effect though in a case of like a 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:27.320 urban disasters, because they start to send these two places 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:29.880 like New Orleans and so in that kind of case 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:32.360 you'd be kind of out of luck with the fluoride 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:35.520 and stuff. So there there are some things that that 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:40.679 the LifeStraw can't do right UM. And as a result, 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:43.200 there's a lot of people out there who are dedicated 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:46.440 to making sure that people get clean water who are 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:49.560 saying like this is great, this is helpful, but UM 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:52.600 at the same time, it's it's not really solving the problem. 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:54.680 So like UM in this article, there is a guy 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:58.200 named Paul Heatherington. He speaks for Water Aid, which is 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:00.760 a British charity, and I think there's a lot of 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:03.800 people who agree with them, UM that the way to 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:07.199 really solve the water crisis in the developing world is 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:11.760 to UM educate people on how to treat their water, 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:15.160 how to take care of their water, and then after 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:19.480 they understand this, or probably simultaneously is an even better idea, UM, 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:24.040 give them a clean source of water that's nearby, dig 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:27.800 them a well. Remember, if you're walking to and from 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:30.399 water twelve miles a day, you haven't gotten to the 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:34.080 point where you're manufacturing heavy equipment that can dig you 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:37.400 a well that will supply your village that comes later. Right, 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:41.240 So a multi pronged approach, get get life straw in 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:44.880 the hands of these people, work on the education. That's 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:47.399 Chuck's advice, right, should go to them life straw so 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:49.679 they can stay alive long enough to go to these 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:54.200 education classes exactly. Obviously, Josh, education and changing an entire 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:58.600 culture of water, sanitation and hygiene is going to take 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:01.800 a long time. So in meantime, get life straw in 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:05.560 the hands of these families. And luckily there are a 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:09.679 lot of companies, relief organizations, charities that are getting on 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:13.600 board because even though they're only think like you get 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:15.000 a deal in bulk, you can get them for about 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:16.840 three bucks apiece if you're a big organization. But I 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:20.240 think they're like five dollars just to buy a single one, 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:22.840 and that's even too much money for these people. Yeah, 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:25.160 that's that's part of the problem. And that's another thing. 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:29.000 I didn't see any criticism of Life Straw, of the 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:32.280 company that manufactures life straw UM, but I get the 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:37.119 impression that there's people out there UM, especially NGOs that 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:43.440 are dedicated to water UM, that feel like companies that 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:50.440 produce relief products are there not selling to these to 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:54.280 their clients, their end users. They're selling their creating these things, 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:57.159 are selling them in between two people like you and me, 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:01.040 or rotary clubs or large corporation. Right, So I went 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:04.840 on and um, there's links on UM. What is how 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:07.679 do you say this company's again best investor guard franz 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:10.840 in um and it says donate. There's like a whole 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:14.399 thing where there's links to the rotary club. There's one 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:16.320 in Spain, there's one in the U k. And then 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:19.159 there's one in the US. They all have different sites 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:22.119 you can donate. So when this it was supposed to 0:20:22.160 --> 0:20:25.760 be three bucks, I've seen five bucks. But then where 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:27.760 the rubber hits the road on this rotary site, it's 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:30.440 six fifty for a life straw and then twenty five 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:37.119 for the family unit, and ultimately it doesn't really matter. 0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:39.520 It's six fifty. You and I can afford that. And 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:41.440 I think like we should kind of put out something 0:20:41.440 --> 0:20:43.720 of a challenge to the stuff. You should know listeners 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:47.520 to donate one of these each. What do you think? 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:50.400 Don't you think? So? Dude, we get like a couple 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:54.359 hundred thousand life straws out there, that'd be awesome. Okay, 0:20:54.560 --> 0:20:56.760 you're looking at me for approval, like I can says, 0:20:57.640 --> 0:20:59.520 I don't want to do that today. I feel like 0:20:59.520 --> 0:21:03.000 going back to bed. And luckily, Josh, like I said, 0:21:03.000 --> 0:21:05.000 there are companies getting involved. And think this was just 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:09.600 released today. Uh, the Danes have teamed up with Coca Cola, 0:21:09.800 --> 0:21:13.760 our own Atlanta's based Coca Cola, and Vest Guard friends 0:21:13.760 --> 0:21:15.480 in in a in a group called Water for All 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:18.520 and they have a deal going Coca Cola apparently is 0:21:18.560 --> 0:21:22.520 the leading bottled water seller in the Nordic regions. It's 0:21:22.520 --> 0:21:26.280 called Killed Killed the Bold. Is there water that they 0:21:26.280 --> 0:21:30.120 sell there? You are good at Nordica? Probably all right. 0:21:30.520 --> 0:21:33.040 But they have a program called Three Leaders of Clean Water, 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:36.320 and it's this partnership where they donate three Leaders of 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:40.520 Clean Water to Africa for every purchase of Coca Cola's 0:21:40.760 --> 0:21:45.640 bottled water brand there. And just yesterday they donated twenty 0:21:45.720 --> 0:21:51.240 seven thousand life straw personal life straws through this partnership 0:21:51.680 --> 0:21:55.440 to Africa. See, I think I never got really, I 0:21:55.680 --> 0:21:58.239 can't get to finish my point. Vester gard Frandsen, Right, 0:21:59.040 --> 0:22:01.840 they are making the product that is very helpful. It's 0:22:01.960 --> 0:22:09.000 literally saving people's lives. Right. Um. I think anytime you 0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:14.320 combine capitalism with relief efforts, it kind of turns my 0:22:14.400 --> 0:22:16.840 stomach a little bit. I don't mind it, but it 0:22:16.960 --> 0:22:19.159 seems like when I really step back and think about it, 0:22:19.200 --> 0:22:24.040 that's such an a Western elitist view of things, because 0:22:24.040 --> 0:22:26.159 it's like arguing with somebody like, well, why don't you 0:22:26.240 --> 0:22:28.080 charge a little less, why don't you donate some of 0:22:28.119 --> 0:22:30.960 these and having a disagreement while there's somebody dying at 0:22:30.960 --> 0:22:33.919 your feet, you know. So, I mean I think it's 0:22:33.920 --> 0:22:35.919 this is one of those cases where it's like, just 0:22:36.880 --> 0:22:39.080 let's get these people their stuff and then we can 0:22:39.119 --> 0:22:41.960 have this conversation later. You know. Well, yeah, but unless 0:22:42.000 --> 0:22:46.760 it's a an NGO that has developed this and invented this, 0:22:46.920 --> 0:22:49.879 then you can't expect this guy to just go broke 0:22:50.359 --> 0:22:54.399 giving these away. I don't And it was tricky though, 0:22:54.440 --> 0:22:56.560 I know what you're saying is and same same with 0:22:56.640 --> 0:22:59.680 Code Cole. It's like, awesome, you know you helped foster 0:23:00.320 --> 0:23:05.720 this transportation of thousand um lifestraws to people who didn't 0:23:05.760 --> 0:23:10.600 have them. But like people begin with which a lot 0:23:10.600 --> 0:23:12.280 of people have a problem with buying bottle water in 0:23:12.280 --> 0:23:15.119 the first leg. So I think there's problems with it, 0:23:15.160 --> 0:23:18.520 But ultimately it's it's very very important not to lose 0:23:18.560 --> 0:23:22.280 sight of the that end user of life straw who's like, 0:23:22.480 --> 0:23:25.240 please send me one so I don't die. We should 0:23:25.240 --> 0:23:28.919 also mention too that um, the reason that you know 0:23:28.960 --> 0:23:31.959 we said that that that that company, the Friends and Company, 0:23:32.400 --> 0:23:36.800 quit making their other textile products was because they probably 0:23:36.800 --> 0:23:39.399