Solving the #H2O problem #EmTechAsia pic.twitter.com/MIkrpqXvzq
— Judy Yeo (@JudyYeo1) January 27, 2016
Theresa invented the first antimicrobial water filter paper: the pAge Drinking Paper. The pAge paper has gained public/media attention in the form of The Drinkable Book™, a collection of these silver nanoparticle-coated filters with water safety tips printed on them in English and the local language. The filters are cheap, lightweight for portability, and require no energy or external inputs. Each pAge filter can purify ~100 L of water: several days of drinking water for a family or several weeks for an individual. The target market for the pAge filters is the “bottom of the pyramid”: the hundreds of millions of people who earn