Japan touts pedal-powered water purifier

Agence France-Presse: A Japanese company is gearing up for large-scale production in Bangladesh of a bicycle that can also be used to purify water at disaster zones or remote villages. "If you can bike to a river, pond, pool or other sources of water, all you need is your leg power to produce clean drinking water," Yuichi Katsuura, president of Nippon Basic Co. said on Thursday as he introduced the system. Cycloclean needs only manpower to turn a bike chain driving a motor to pump water through a series of filters,......

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