Teenage Innovator Creates Inexpensive Water Purification System for Rural Areas In a touching breakthrough, 15-year-old Californian Aria Patel has created an inexpensive and environmentally friendly water purification system that can assist rural areas with limited access to water. Her creation, which employs biodegradable filters composed of coconut husks and sand, can potentially bring clean drinking water to thousands of individuals globally. Aria, a sophomore in high school who is interested in science and environmental sustainability, started developing this project after seeing the water crisis in many poor areas. “I wanted to develop something simple but effective that communities could implement easily without depending on costly infrastructure,” she explained. Her low-cost system is only a fraction of the cost of conventional filtration systems and has been tested successfully in several villages in India and […]