Human Powered Water Purifier–Update

In order to turn their design into reality, the lead students representing the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) open-source human powered water purifier design group met at Western Kentucky University over the weekend of May 16-18. The students came from as far away as Sweden and Venezuela but they each came with one intent: to build a water purifier that would function without supplemental electricity or battery power. Read on…