Is there any research or studies into how to mass produce water to

[D H]

The number of people at risk due to poor quality drinking water would be much higher than 5 million, but even if it is a quarter of Africa's billion people, you're still only talking $1.6 billion.

Those LifeStraws have a limited lifetime, about a year from what I can see. That makes your $1.6 billion an annual expenditure, and now you are starting to talk about a lot of money.

 

[Ryan_m_b]

Those LifeStraws have a limited lifetime, about a year from what I can see. That makes your $1.6 billion an annual expenditure, and now you are starting to talk about a lot of money.

Which is why the consideration for any aid program is to both treat the symptom and the disease. Spend money on the things that will immediately keep people alive and spend money on helping develop their country so that they can drag themselves out of poverty.

just think, that $1.6B could fund a lot of great work at the LHC and go to the JWST.

It could but it could also save millions of lives. There has to be a balance obviously but considering these large projects are already funded (and the latter is grossly over budget as I understand it) there's no reason to simply pile all money into it and not give a relatively negligible amount of money to aid.

 

[wildwohl]

and look at the multitude of billions of dollars in aid that the charities and U.N. get and the only ones that benefit from it are the charities and the U.N.

 

[Ryan_m_b]

and look at the multitude of billions of dollars in aid that the charities and U.N. get and the only ones that benefit from it are the charities and the U.N.

There are millions of people alive and prosperous today thanks to aid that would beg to differ.

 

[Ryan_m_b]

and look at the millions that are alive and prosperous without the aid.

I'm sorry but that isn't an argument, it's a huge fallacy. It's akin to saying "look at all the people who aren't receiving chemotherapy who are alive and prosperous" to a cancer patient in need of chemotherapy.

This thread stopped being about water production a while ago.