(Reposted here from naturalnews.com)
Thursday, March 29, 2018 by: Ethan Huff
(Natural News) Hands down, the most important factor in maintaining public health is access to clean water, and scientist Liangjie Dong from the University of Hawaii has come up with a revolutionary new technology that stands to bring clean water to even the poorest and most remote regions of the world – all for just a few pennies a gallon.
It’s known as Mesopaper, and it basically looks like a grey-colored coffee filter of sorts that you simply place over the top of a water bottle or jar before pouring water through it. Mesopaper is capable of filtering out heavy metal toxins like lead, arsenic, and mercury, all while preserving important nutrients like calcium and magnesium that benefit health – and the best thing of all is that Mesopaper costs next to nothing to produce.
Dong first came up with the idea back in 2005 when he developed his first crude design of the technology, which involved the use of cartridges that had to be inserted into water in order to purify it. He first brought the technology to Bangladesh, where some 20 million people are exposed to arsenic in their drinking water, teaching the locals how to use the system to achieve maximum benefits.
This little experiment was a huge success, but there was just one problem: The first version of the technology wasn’t all that self-explanatory. In fact, after the trip was over, a local manager asked Dong if there was any way he could redesign the system to make it simpler for people to use without having to first receive instructions – and this is how the latest version of Mesopaper came to be.
Seven years after receiving this request, Dong successfully developed a brand new filter design that’s flat and only requires water to be passed directly through the filter in order to work. And once the filters reach their life capacity, they simply stop allowing water through, which is when you know it’s time for a replacement.
Mesopaper encapsulates toxins naturally so they don’t escape back into the ground upon disposal
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