Drinkable Book – How to drink from a paper book.

Teri Dankovich, from Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, who has been leading the research on what she calls “the drinkable book” said in one trial, they tested a ditch contaminated with sewage that contained millions of bacteria. “Even with highly contaminated water sources like that one, we can achieve 99.9% purity with our silver-and copper-nanoparticle paper, bringing bacteria levels comparable to those of US drinking water,” she said.

via A new “drinkable book” has pages that turn raw sewage into drinking water – Quartz.

Technology is getting better and better for 3rd world nations!