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access to safe drinking water is a global problem for nearly a billion
people
for about two hundred million many in africa
high levels of naturally occurring flora water causes disfiguring dental and
skeletal disease dental flor as this is a darkening are modeling a petite
service or so stigmatized k
media that poverty stable
delta for assistance is much more physically debilitating
was support for the national science foundation university of oklahoma
environmental scientist laura bronson
is on the case she's developing fluoride filtering devices that use cheap
materials readily available right there in the villages like charred animal
bones or charge work
during recent fieldwork in ethiopia she and her team set up their lab in the
bathroom of the local cast
s and started experiment
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next year
that would make it even more effective
brunson says many water projects in developing countries fail for obvious
reasons money runs out org machinery breaks down
and disseminate communities who visited you know they were maybe two that were
actually functioning
expressed written consent
but equally important he says about cultural factors
figuring out how to get the community behind a water filtering project
the teen talk to a lot of people and asked a lot of questions how do you use
flatter when you get it from
what you think about the current treatment systems or something you would
prefer to have
brunson who also teaches at the college of business
says getting communities committed to water treatment could also be a
money-making opportunity for local people
if you can set up a business in the facts are that you're selling that's
helping people get treated water
is making enough money that you can be self-sustaining then you can keep going
science and local entrepreneurship coming together to make a portable safe
water available two million
what a clean clear idea
precise nation i'm miles o'brien