How it Really is
My concept is that we in the western world take for granted how dire the rest of the world is. From our point of view everyone has a house, clean water, goes to school etc. but in reality 80% of our worlds population are in poverty. Approximately 6,000 people die each day from illness's that clean water could have prevented with the global killer being diarrhea. More people die each year from diarrhea than from cars, guns, cancer, nuclear missiles, and everything else. Attempts at solving this problem through design have been made with the best example being the "LifeStraw". The "LifeStraw" being a swiss made large plastic tube that when sucking through dirty parasite filled water, purifies it making it drinkable. This is a great attempt but not enough to solve poverty. Because of this I plan to bring this to light and create a manifestation reflecting "How the the world is" and "How it really is". I am hoping to create some sort of drinking apparatus where the user has to put a lot of effort in just to get a couple of drops of water, mirroring the efforts of what majority of the world have to go through each day.
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