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It is a matter of peculiar interest to purify rain water in places where are short of clean water, and the rain coat collaborated by Hyeona Yang and Joshua Noble is rightly a device that would help many people around the world. It seems like cape, with tall collars to collect rain water and built-in charcoal filters and a chemical purification system to make the water safe for drinking. After the water is purified, it will be stored around the shoulders and pockets of the coat. The coat also has some tubes so that people would conveniently drink the collected water at any time and any where. [Read the rest of this entry...]

It is reported that lack of fresh and clean drinking water is the main reason why most people died at the sea. So to solve that problem, designers have come up with the SeaKettle that has an incorporated desalination process to produce clean water for drinking. The desalination process pumps sea water into the reservoir, let the water evaporate under the sunlight, and then the condensation process will start, and about 3 liters of fresh water will be collected for drinking. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Kitae Pak designed the Dew Bank Bottle lately after being inspired by onymacris unguicularis, a beetle found in the Namibian desert. The beetle procures water in a unique way: it goes to the peak of the sand dune every morning, and uses its body to help in dew formation, making the dew enriched fog to provide enough water for drinking. The Dew Bank Bottle works in almost the same way as that beetle. Its steel body assimilates the morning dew, purifies the water and then stores it in the bottle.

The Dew Bank Bottle won the Bronze Prize at the Idea Design Awards 2010.

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People say that swimming pools offer more than entertainment to the users, but also resulting in illness, provided that the pools are not completely safe from contamination. The Healthier Pool Purifier puts an end to the algae and other bacteria in the water with the mineral electrode insert, which would release ions to kill them. Powered by solar panels on the top, the electrode insert has a life span of up to one year while the passing of time won’t weaken its function. You like the design? Purchase it for $349.95 through Hammacher. [Read the rest of this entry...]

321 — pronounced “three to one” — is a reusable water bottle, or more exactly a portable water purifier designed to provide clean water to travelers. The concept behind the simple name is quite impressive: three liters of water is required to manufacture merely one liter of bottled water, but you could save more water using the 321 Water. Besides, the product also helps to reduce the need of plastic bottles.

Designed by Gretha Oost, Paul Charlwood and Andrew Howley, the innovative water purification system is easy to use, all you have to do is to fill the bottle with tap water through a drip system and slot in the filter.

One filter can last 100 uses (about 50 liters) and it could be purchased separately. [Read the rest of this entry...]

The ‘Water Bobble’ was invented as a result of the idea to “make water better” while not resulting in huge piles of plastic bottles to threaten the environment. Integrated with a replaceable carbon filter on the bottom of the cap, the bottle could sterilize the water direct from the tap, eliminating your constant purchase of bottled water. It is available in six colors. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Dare you drink your urine? Most of us may never though of that question before, but what if you’re in a desert while couldn’t find either water or a way out there? You should think of it. Luckily, the urine purifier would make the problem easier to answer as the new device could transform urine into pure water. Nevertheless, I bet nobody would look forward to use such a device, right? That’s too weird. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Neat, clean, convenient, as I would describe it, the ‘Happy Basin’ is an instant water purifier which is embedded with a nano ceramic filter at the bottom. Simple as it is, the basin allows you to purify polluted water simply by pushing it into the water body. As a final word, well, this is really exciting news to people living with polluted water. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Though I used to imagine that one day we could simply raise our heads up to drink water directly, I’ve never thought that day would come so soon. Named as “Sky Water”, the spacey looking device can collect rain water through the ring, filter it in the holding tank and then drive fresh water out from the bottom. It is really a good product that deserves our expectation over the years.

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Having clean water is not a conventional thing in some developing countries, not only for transportation but also for the cleaning process. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This weird gadget gonna help you get some freshwater by evaporating salt or brackish water. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This is actually a water purifier; you can just press the button and stir it in the water with the lamp side. If you do not stir enough, it will warn with red light. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Insert it in any handy source, and push the pump, you can have purified water and even with some iodine in it.

It has been proven in tests carried out by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. [Read the rest of this entry...]