Aquaduct: an easier way to transport clean water
January 18, 2008
Thanks to our good friend Susan who gave us this design heads-up, we now know that Aquaduct has won a pedal-powered machine contest called Innovate or Die. The contest was sponsored by Specialized and Google. Aquaduct is amazing in that it is a bike designed for third world countries (or maybe Raleigh if this drought persists) where a person must travel away from their home, sometimes 3 or 4 miles, to get water each day. The Aquaduct enables a person to ride to the water, fill up a 20 gallon tank on the back, and then pedal back, with the pedalling pulling water through a filtration system and into a clean 2 gallon tank on the front. See the YouTube video showing the whole process here.
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Tags: , aquaduct, bicycle, clean water, environmental, green, product design, transportation
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January 21st, 2008 at 12:58 am
I’m really digging on the one that kind of looks like a banana!
January 21st, 2008 at 5:26 am
Nice peppy look aquaduct, It certainly redefine the way we travel in the future. It’s interesting to see a automobile which runs on water, with this break through technology we can win on environment.
February 9th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Um, don’t mean to offend but it does not run on water it transports water with pedal power the exact same as a bicycle the amazing thing is thought that it filters the water as the person rides. This is a great thing because of the water sanitation problems in many underdeveloped countries like Africa where a large amount of deaths everyday are due to diseases and bacteria from unclean water. Amazing invention.