Water is the basic essential to life. People can live up to a week or better without food, but can only live 2-to-3 days without water. Clean water can be hard to find if you get stranded or there is an emergency. If you have to find your...
In Kenya, people place great importance on family and traditional values, and often live with extended family. Many of the lower class people live in mud huts with thatched roofs. The people there are known for being fast and efficient runners.
This article states that a good majority of the county lives in rural areas. Any filtration system that we might build will have to be small, cheap, and accessible so that it will be effective for the people there.
For this project, we were not sure if any fabric would work at all for any sort of filtration so we decided that our best bet would be to try as many different types of fabric as possible, both in what material they were made out of and in how the fabric was made (woven, knitted, etc.).
