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Clothes clean drinking water

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Filtering with an old sari cuts cholera cases by half.

Filtering drinking water from rivers and ponds through a folded piece of cotton cloth could cut disease by half in cholera-plagued countries, a new field study suggests.

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  1. Colwell, R.R. et al. Reduction of cholera in Bangladesh villages by simple filtration. Proc Natl Acad Sci, Published online DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0237386100, (2003).

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