A Straw of Life in a puddle of mud?

The interest for the LifeStraws have so far been enormous. I will first join the others in Sierra Leone the coming monday, and I’m currently enjoying my time at the big rock festival known as the Roskilde Festival.

I brought a LifeStraw along for testing purposes, as well as to get an opportunity to show off with my little new gadget. Since Denmark has experienced heavy rain the last couple of days, finding a suitable waterhole at the Roskilde festival turned out to be an easy task.

I decided to use myself as a guinea pig, and stuck the lifestraw into the dirty mud-like water and sucked.

Before I got any water in my mouth I heard people yell “You can’t drink that water, you are insane” or “What is he doing!?!?”.

Having faith in my little gadget I keept sucking and when the water finally reached my mouth I was happy to realise that the water tasted like any other water you from the tab, and that it was complete transparent. (in comparison to the brownish color of the water).

I let two very skeptical drunk Norwegians try it - and both of them stood up with a big smile and said “It works, it works”.

So yeah - even though my test wasn’t very scientific in anyway, the interest for the gadget showed to be very big. Hopefully we can manage to use this little tool in other projects in the future.

If you have any interest in being part of an eventual project, perhaps involving LifeStraws, perhaps something different - feel free to contact us at info@gmin.org.

That’s all for now from the part of the the GMin team, which is still in Denmark.

-Jacob

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