PHASE: Define
CATEGORY: Water
LOCATION: Darfur , Sudan
The Necessity of Life
Africa

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Our project would be providing clean water to third world countries while decreasing diseases from dirty water. We have designed and inexpensive and effective device to purify water.
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264 out of 388 in Africa
53 out of 88 in Water
333 out of 735 in Define
395 out of 625 in Charitable
989 out of 1783 Overall

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Group 17
Our project would help bring better health to third would countries in an easy and inexpensive way.

The innovation consists of a black metal pot with a specially designed Fresnel lens that fits on the top of the pot with a rubber suction seal.  The Fresnel lens boils water by focusing sunlight to heat a central location in the pot filled with water. The black color of the pot absorbs the suns rays and will make the water heat faster. Due to the high temperatures year round in this area, the water will boil. The boiling water will evaporate and condensate on the lens. This pure water will run down the lens on the top of the device and be collected in a gutter surrounding the rim of the pot. It will then drain through a sealed pipe into a separate glass water bottle like container that can be screwed on and off.

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