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# Sweet Device Of The Week: Life Straw
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/sweet-device-of-the-week-life-straw/
- Published: 2008-05-07T12:05:18.000Z
- Updated: 2016-05-29T13:35:54.000Z
- Description: They Say...Half of the world's poor suffer from waterborne disease, and nearly 6,000 people - mainly children - die each day by…
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:15

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They Say...Half of the world's poor suffer from waterborne disease, and nearly 6,000 people - mainly children - die each day by consuming unsafe drinking water. [LifeStraw® ](http://www.vestergaard-frandsen.com/lifestraw-introduction.htm?ref=protein.xyz)water purifiers have been developed as a practical way of preventing disease and saving lives, as well as achieving the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe water by the year 2015 I say.. Lets start giving 'em out ASAP. Start in Burma.