Solar Bottle!

Is it worth a prize? or even to consider it as an 'invention'?

The developers of this system of water disinfection , as
termed SODIS, say that this can help one sixth of the 
worlds population who dont have access to 'safe' drinking
water can not have one .

SODIS is nothing but keeping contaminated water in
this 'solar bottle' and exposing it for sunlight for six hours.

this has won the index award for 2007 !

Apparently, the people who don't have access to safe
drinking water are from the poor third world countires .
Those are the same who aren't sure whether they
would have their daily bread and butter.will they be
crazy enough to buy this stuff ?

And, if this is to serve the purpose of providing enough
daily water, each member has to buy atleast four of
them [ provided each one is of 500 ml capacity ] , in
order to fulfil ones daily water requirement of around
2 litres.

will not the people be intelligent enough to use some
transparent bottle thats there in their home ? 


The other issue is, it won the 2007 index award ! ain't
the design of the bottle cool ? yes, thats why this thing
 fetched the index awards .

But, this ain't an invention ! its just a modification of the
already well known disinfection properties of
sunlight . Those intersted to know more about can visit 
the artice by clicking here.

i wish that they make a safety lock and alarm or things
like that so as to ensure this most-of-the-times-outside-home
stuff will'nt be stolen by a neighbour !

index awards 2007