WaterWear: backpack-canister for transporting water

We are not used to limit the use of "daily" resources. Especially in terms of water: splashing around for two hours in the bathroom to close the faucet while you brush your teeth everyday trivia and the norm for the average urban dweller. But more than a billion people from developing countries much less fortunate in Africa alone women and children spend about 40 billion (!) hours per year collecting water in Jerry cans and barrels, and the nearest clean source often located at a distance of several miles from the settlement. So little to help those who are forced to get water so hard, the American manufacturer of industrial containers Greif has developed a special WaterWear backpack is a convenient container for transporting the precious moisture.





WaterWear – a project of the Corporation Greif together with the research center, Impact Economics. Novelty should be the first tool for convenient transportation of water to the person fully affordable for developing countries and regions that have suffered from natural disasters. Development is a voluminous backpack canister up to 20 liters of water and thus easily folded, taking up little space in the house.





Environmentally friendly (according to statements Greif) backpack is made of polypropylene fabric, which can be safely disposed of or recycled, as well as special plastic liner-lining. The latter can be easily removed for cleaning. Design backpack is designed for proper weight distribution of Luggage along the body to facilitate the transport of water through WaterWear even at a considerable distance. Also, the backpack canister has thick, flat bottom and an extra pipe for easy water filling.







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