iStraw: Clean Water in Dirty Places

Posted by Tanya Hall

February 9, 2009

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After months of hard work it has become a necessity to get away for a bit and go traveling. The only problem is though, sometimes traveling can make you more sick than stress at work thanks to new diets and unclean drinking water. This gadget is a simple idea that is designed to make your holiday memorable for the right reasons. sub_prodshot

The iStraw is not an iPhone app that maps clean drinking water throughout the world. It’s a bit more practical than that.

It is instead a lightweight portable water purification drinking straw. Yes, it’s a bit of plastic that connects your mouth to your cup.

Its genius comes in the form of a special membrane fitted within the straw, that uses Micro-filtration technology to clean your water. This means no more expensive and nasty tasting chlorine tablets.

The iStraw will protect you from waterborne bacteria and protozoa that are present in the drinking water and ice of many countries, and will therefore help to prevent illness, sickness and diarrhoea. In other words, it will keep you healthy enough to do your hiking, lazing and eating when abroad.

So how does it work? The iStraw’s special membrane uses Micro-filtration technology to purify potentially contaminated water. This special membrane acts like a micro-porous sieve that filters out harmful bacteria in the water leaving it a pretty impressive 99.9999% safe and clean to drink.

You don’t need to pack away hundreds of them as well. One iStraw can purify up to 500 litres of municipal or town tap water. The capacity of the iStraw to purify water depends on the quality of water to be purified.

The iStraw means you don’t have to worry about being offered local tap water or coke with ice cubes in restaurants.

It is also a green alternative as you don’t need to use plastic bottles of water that release harmful emissions into the atmosphere. Who would have thought that a straw would reduce your Carbon footprint?

Priced at £19.99, it’s a pretty good investment to ensure the hundreds of pounds you spent on your holiday isn’t wasted.

Source: iStraw

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