2. Pollution from urban living runs into viable drinking water sources.

3. Leading many people
to scavenge through
horrible conditions.

4. This is the reality that many
countries face, clean
drinking water has become
scarce.

5. 78 million people lack clean
water access (Water.org)
3.4 million people die each
year from water related disease
(Water.org).

6. Industrial waste is also deposited into viable
water sources. People that live downstream of
these facilities are left with contaminated drinking
water.

7. Knowing the negative
outcomes industrial
complexes continue to
contaminate our water
system.

8. Waste continues to build up
and is directed into some of
our main clean water
sources.

11. Agricultural runoff in under developed areas is not
regulated and inevitably ends up in drinking water
reservoirs.

13. "Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends,
have become global garbage cans."
— Jacques Cousteau

15. Yet the people of less
developed areas have
to hold the rest of the
world's ignorance on
their shoulders.

16. Clean water sources are so
scarce in developing countries.
Many people have to walk
miles just to get access to
"drinkable water."

19. Despite the hardship of all this water
pollution, people are creating answers.

20. Lifestraw and
Lifestraw Family
have provided a 4-
step filter process
that allows people
to drink directly
from natural water
sources.

21. How does it
work?

22. 1) This first stage is a
filter with holes no
larger than the
diameter of a single
hair (100 microns).
This filters out big
sediment such as dirt.
2) The second
stage is a filter with
holes no larger than
15 microns! This
filters out different
types of bacteria
that could be found
in the water.
3) The water moves
through this third stage
made up of beads
saturated with iodine.
The iodine kills
parasites and 99.3%
bacteria and viruses.
4) Finally, the water
passes through a
chamber of
granulated carbon
This makes the
water smell and
taste better and kills
any remaining
parasites.

23. These filters can remove 99.9999% of waterborne
bacteria and 99.9% of parasites.

24. The straws are easily portable with a string
for people to hang around their necks.

25. Lifestraw Family is capable of
filtering approximately 18,000
liters of water...

26. ...enough to give a family of five
water for up to 3 years!