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A professor who developed an inexpensive, easy-to-make system for filtering arsenic from well water has won a $1 million engineering prize - and he plans to use most of the money to distribute the filters to needy communities around the world.

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TVblogger
Feb. 3, 2007, 2:37 p.m.
Good for him. It's nice to see people getting money that deserve it. I'm thinking back to the story when the child molester won the lottery.
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Amazing1
Feb. 3, 2007, 2:51 p.m.
What a good thing. And especially good that he is donating 70% of the prize money to distribute the filters to needy communities. Lovely to hear a good story, too. Thanks Aidenag.
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Searchbeam
Feb. 3, 2007, 5:05 p.m.
Thank God, altruism is alive and well, despite the snide remark here!
manorak, if you lived in one of these poor communities, you will be a changed person!
If anyone of your greedy capitalist cronies want to make a profit on this concept, they could license the technology from George Mason University and make these filters and throw these poor people into perpetual poverty, trying to pay for the insane profits, just like the World Bank did for decades!
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Searchbeam
Feb. 3, 2007, 4:57 p.m.
This is the second biggest news from BanglaDesh!
First, Dr. Muhammad Yunus of Grameen Bank won the Nobel Prize for his very successful micro-lending system that beat the conventional banking methods and gave economic freedom to millions!
And now Professor Abul Hassam for his invention that will literally give new life to millions who cannot get pure drinking water!
There is hope in this world!
God Bless these pioneers!
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Bobola
Feb. 3, 2007, 11:03 p.m.
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Bobola
Feb. 3, 2007, 11:10 p.m.
It seems a rather high award for a trivial observation that iron shavings reduce arsenic oxide in the presence of water to pure element. I would suggest to use zinc instead of iron as a stronger reducing agent. The arsenic is deposited on the bed of iron so the later will need to be periodically replaced.