The purpose behind this invention is rather noble. It is meant to reach out to those people stuck in floods and other such natural calamities and supply them clean water immediately. Disaster relief has the worst kind of suffering, and often systems in rescue operations are ill-equipped for situations. It is with some profound thought that designer Matthias Rauch worked on the life-saver of a machine or filter.

Called Water Ahead, the capsule like water urn filters water to make it potable. Its most unique feature is that it can be carried over to flood waters, is transport friendly. And it helps locate flood victims with integrated thermal graphic cameras, while acoustic signals and flash lights indicates their presence to the affected as well as lifeguards. It has `intelligent’ skin that sucks up muddy flood water and turns it into fresh drinking water.

How do they function? Acoustic signals and flashing lights inform the habitants that a capsule arrives. The mudwater of the flood has been filtered by diffusion through the capsule’s skin into fresh drinking water. Using a camera, helpers on the boat take stock of the position and settle on who should have priority of quicker help. The gadget may well turn out to be a mass product in future, with potable drinking water becoming a rarity in the name of commodity.
Via: Folkwang Hochschule