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Tales from the Missionary Hut: Just suck

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3 Tales from the Miss suck

Globally concerned inventors do come up with some interesting ideas and here we learn how to sort out shortages of clean drinking water across the globe with a simple drinking straw. Does it suck? Can they be serious? The invention is real enough.

Recommended links:

Article by Nathalie Rothschild: This invention really does suck
A website dedicated to the Lifestraw
BBC Article: New straw to kill disease as you drink
Article: Interview with the developer of the Lifestraw

Related topics: Spoofs

Africa, children, culture, death, developing world, development, disease, diy, drinking water, health, indigenous, invention, Lifestraw, poor, poverty, Spoofs

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Stacey said:

WORLDbytes missionary hut series is very funny, especially with our very own S.L.A.G. guiding us through. But i am getting more and more outraged by the pitiful and demeaning, so called ‘innovations’ people are actually producing and imposing on people in the Third World. It really does suck.