Resource Development International (RDI)

A Khmer-American friend named Amy wanted to visit a ceramics factory I never heard of just outside Phnom Penh that produce a rudimentary - but effective - water purification product for folks in the primitive Provence's. Very interesting to me.

Millions of poor people on this planet - most often young children - die of, of all things, diarrhea every year. Diarrhea from ingesting nasty water.

RDI produces a ceramic pot with a complex blend of natural earth elements. Water placed in the ceramic pot takes about an hour to percolate, drip by drip, through the porous pot bottom into a plastic holding tank and becomes safe to drink. First-world science, third-world implementation.

RDI is a non-profit company and gives away everything as fast as they make it.

I salute RDI, RDI is addressing the source of a huge health problem that is simple and cheap to fix and saves millions of lives and millions of dollars and the grief of millions of people.

Here are pictures followed by an interesting video.