This adroit conception by Japanese water purifier company Nissan Basic has once again proved that originality and smartness goes hand in hand with modesty and simplicity. Basically, this candid contraption by the name of “Cycloclean” is a water purifying system that is manually powered by pedaling a bicycle, to produce a maximum of 5 liters (1.3 gallon) of clean, purified water in a minute.
The bicycle features puncture-free tires, while the pump and hoses are kept in an attache case-like box on the rear carrier and three filter cartridges are accommodated around the rear wheel, thus completing the whole unique yet astute water purifying system. So it is the ‘old school’ way of utilizing muscle power instead of petrol or even electricity. Yuichi Katsuura, president of Nippon Basic Co. said:
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.
While the design epitomizes the primeval potential of ‘green’, emission free technology, and also gives us more than reason to cycle, there is clearly an ethical intonation that can associated with this concept. A small number of products were sold to developing nations like Bangladesh, Philippines and Cambodia. Though the product costs about $660 in Japan, the company had seen its demand rise in Bangladesh and hence started a local assembly late last year, with an aim to reduce the price in cooperation with a Bangladeshi bicycle maker.
Source: Physorg
