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  TVblogger1 year, 6 months ago

  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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  Amazing11 year, 6 months ago

  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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  Searchbeam1 year, 6 months ago

  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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    ONEMEMPHISDUDE1 year, 6 months ago

    ..manorak makes a point, (albeit while taking a political shot at the libs!) I believe that the professor may have also been thinking of his native land when he mentioned that the products are made in Bangledesh for approx. $40 each. What if we applied Capitalism to the formula:

    If the idea takes off and the need is sold, these component units can be manufactured in China for about $5.oo per each. The products are sold at $19.95 on late night t.v., (but wait...There's More!...if you order before midnight...etc.) Now the product goes Worldwide.

    Arsenic water poisioning is a thing of the past. Bangledesh citizens have full employment assembling Chinese made filter materials. The good professor resigns from GM University and invests his millions employing scores of his former American students in R&D, seeking cost effective solutions for the ills of modern man.

    Never, ever, be ashamed of Capitalism. Your computer: "Brought to you by--CAPITALIST AMERICA!"

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  Searchbeam1 year, 6 months ago

  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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  Bobola1 year, 6 months ago

  OnOne

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  Bobola1 year, 6 months ago

  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.

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