Mincer, Jilian. "Product Design (A Special Report); Water, Water Everywhere...The LifeStraw looks simple; But it has the potential to save many live." Wall Street Journal [New York] 23 Jun 2008.n.pag.Web.15 Jan 2012. http://search.proquest.com/docview/399011954?accountid=285
In this newspaper article, Mincer explains what prompted Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen to create the LifeStraw for African villagers and how he came up with such a promising product that ensures 99.9% removal of bacteria and waterborne viruses. Mincer agrees that this LifeStraw is a perfect product that empowers people to acquire purified water right away to where they don’t have to wait for the African government to come up with solutions in the future. She explains how people in critical situations drink the unsafe and very dirty water not realizing the viruses it holds which can cause ‘diarrhea, dysentery, and eventually death’ as Jeff Nene explains. The result of the LifeStraw is a personal water purifier that eliminates basically all the waterborne bacteria and most viruses. When a person sucks through the straw the water goes through iodine filters and then a second chamber of granulated active carbon which absorbs the iodine, for better tasting water. Mincer is a writer in New York for Reuters who discusses investing and personal finance topics. She says that any views expressed are her own which could potentially be biased but in this article she shows no bias. She like many others is just explaining a solution to the drinking of unsafe water worldwide.
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