Solar Powered Water Jug to Purify Drinking Water
Posted on November 22, 2012 Comments (4)
Deepika Kurup, a 14-year-old New York student, won the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge for her invention of a solar-powered water jug that changes dirty water into purified drinking water. She won the top prize of $25,000.
During “the 5 minutes of my presentation 15 children have died from lack of clean drinking water.”
I am thankful we have kids like this to create solutions for us that will make the world a better place. We rely on hundreds of thousands of such people to use science and engineering methods to benefit society.
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4 Responses to “Solar Powered Water Jug to Purify Drinking Water”
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November 25th, 2012 @ 5:48 am
Congratulations Deepika…. great work done.
February 10th, 2013 @ 5:43 am
Amazing girl… so proud of u deepika….
May 11th, 2013 @ 8:18 pm
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July 5th, 2013 @ 4:23 am
Awesome!!!
What an amazing invention.
Solar-powered water jug can be really useful, a good step towards saving conventional source of energy and purifying water.
Well done Deepika!