Life Straw

Safe drinking water interventions for home and outside use

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The LifeStraw® Concept Drinking Water Crisis The Link between Diarrhoea and HIV The Health Impact of Water Filtration LifeStraw® Family – Product Features LifeStraw® Family – Functioning LifeStraw® Family – Usage LifeStraw® Family – Comparison to other Point-of-Use Interventions for Safe Drinking Water LifeStraw® Family – Microbiological Performance LifeStraw® Family – Health Impact LifeStraw® Family – Durability LifeStraw® Family – Customer Acceptability LifeStraw® Family – Certificate of Quality LifeStraw® Family – Guarantee LifeStraw® – Complementary Tool to LifeStraw® Family LifeStraw® – Product Features LifeStraw® – Longevity and Efficacy LifeStraw® – Health Impact LifeStraw® – Customer Acceptability LifeStraw® – Usage LifeStraw® – Awards and Accolades Product Delivery and Customer Support Acronyms/ Definitions References Customer Support Offices 1 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29

The LifeStraw® Concept
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) call for a reduction of the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water by half between 1990 and 2015. Yet, an estimated 884 million people in the world, 37% of whom live in Sub-Saharan Africa, still use unimproved sources of drinking water1. Lack of access to safe drinking water contributes to the staggering burden of diarrhoeal diseases worldwide, particularly affecting the young, the immunocompromised and the poor. Nearly one in five child deaths – about 1.5 million each year – is due to diarrhoea. Diarrhoea kills more young children than AIDS, malaria and measles combined2. Drinking contaminated water also leads to reduced personal productive time, with widespread economic effects. Approximately 43% of the global population, especially the lower-income populace in the remote and rural parts of the developing world, is deprived of household safe piped water. Thus, there is a pressing

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