Solar Bag Cleans Water While Walking

July 25th, 2012 by Chelsea

Clean water is hard to come by, but a solar-enhanced bag has combined portability and potability.

The Solar Bag, designed by Ryan Lynch and Marcus Triest, is exactly what it sounds like: an over-the-shoulder messenger style bag that can be filled with water and lugged around while the sun’s UV rays purify. The Solar Bag can decontaminate about 2.5 gallons of water in as little as six hours.

Lynch said the bag was designed to be used by families in sub-saharan Africa.

Sources: TreeHugger and Ryan Lynch
Image: Courtesy of Ryan Lynch

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Tags: Africa, mobile water purification, solar water purification, sub-saharan africa, water purification, water purifier

About the Author

Chelsea is a former newspaper reporter who has spent the past few years teaching English in Poland, Finland and Japan. When she wasn't teaching or writing, Chelsea was traveling Europe and Asia, sampling spicy street food along the way.

T. Lester

Yeah, sure six hours of walking around, uhuh. May be worth drilling for water instead.
Barbfran

How does the UV get to it if it’s black? Sounds more like solar pasteurization.
Ryan Lynch

Its 2.5 gallons, not 2.5 liters
- Zachary Shahan
  
  Thanks. Updated.