So, I Headed over to the sculpture garden around noon today to check out this "Designs For The Other 90% " exhibit. Luckily it was free. The idea is this: we in the USA are generally in the top 10 percent of the world population in terms of luxury of life. That is to say, 90% of the worlds population does not have acces to the huge amount of services such as clean water pumped to our homes, electricty, natural gas, sewage systems, cars/buses/trucks, basic building materials, and all that good stuff. The products in this exhibit are being used currently by communities of the other 90%.
The blue thing is a water pump that you operate by walking on it like a stair master. The plastic buckets are several examples of water filtration using ceramic filters. The other pictures shoud be pretty self explanatory.
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