Meet Nithya Tammana: The 11-year-old New Jersey inventor who built a sub-$38 moss filter that can remove up to 95% of lead from drinking water
- Photo credit: actionfornature.orgWhen Nithya Tammana learned that lead could enter drinking water through old pipes and plumbing fixtures, she did not treat the problem as someone else’s responsibility.
- The New Jersey student began researching affordable ways to make contaminated water safer, eventually focusing on a humble material often found growing on rocks, trees and damp ground: moss.
- Her invention, a low cost moss based filtration system priced at under $38, is designed to remove up to 95 percent of lead from water in testing.
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- Photo credit: actionfornature.orgWhen Nithya Tammana learned that lead could enter drinking water through old pipes and plumbing fixtures, she did not treat the problem as someone else’s responsibility.
- The New Jersey student began researching affordable ways to make contaminated water safer, eventually focusing on a humble material often found growing on rocks, trees and damp ground: moss.
- Her invention, a low cost moss based filtration system priced at under $38, is designed to remove up to 95 percent of lead from water in testing.
Sources: Times of India