Water Research Part Deux

After some sketching and looking at art and designs related to water I decided to delve into researching information about how water is currently being distributed in LEDC's and current
solutions and problems.

One of the first things I came across was this;

http://www.waterislife.com/the-straw/

A unique invention that somehow filters impurities out while taking the water down your gullet.

In the short term this could be a good way of purifying water but it does not strike me as being long term. It would be more beneficial to set up a reservoir or teach the communities how to build wells and purify it themselves.

Due to the dry nature of some of the countries it is no surprise that people have to walk miles to dried up or dirty wells that are being shared with the animals and mosquitos which causes malaria and other diseases.

It seems that if everyone where to give just a little bit of money then clean wells could be built which would dramatically reduce diseases and death.

http://www.reliefforafrica.org/

This would be an interesting point to illustrate but it would end up being too dark like the majority of charity posters for africa, I personally do not think it is a good thing to prey upon peoples pity for money, you should inspire them through design to want to help, not because they feel they have too.

Bit too depressing right?