LifeStraw® – Awards and Accolades

Good design should have a positive effect on the user and if possible on society. LifeStraw® meets these basic criteria, truly an excellent design solution. LifeStraw® offers a simple, elegant solution to a large and complicated problem that profoundly affects many people’s lives around the world. By addressing this problem the designers are opening possibilities of limiting the number of people without clean water – and thereby reducing deaths resulting from this lack, especially in the developing world.

- Jury of INDEX: 2005 International Design Award (September 2005)

LifeStraw® is a very simple and elegant solution to a problem that kills millions of people. Let's get it out there.

- Saatchi & Saatchi Award for World Changing Ideas Judge Peter Gabriel (February 2008)

Awards

• 2008 Saatchi & Saatchi Award for World Changing Ideas
• ‘INDEX: 2005’ International Design Award
• ‘Well-Tech 2006’ Innovation Technology Award

Accolades

• ‘Best Invention of 2005’ Time (November 2005)
• ‘Europe’s Best Invention’ Reader’s Digest (July 2006)
• ‘Innovation of the Year’ Esquire (December 2005)
• ‘Invention of the Century’ Gizmag (December 2005)
• ‘A Water Purifier for the Masses’ Popular Science  (December 2005)
• 'A Water Purifier That Could Save Lives’ New York Times (October 2006)
• ‘Gadget Produces Safe Drinking Water’ Newsweek (June 2007)
• One of the ‘Ten Things That Will Change The Way We Live’ Forbes (February 2006)
• ‘Tools for Better Living’ Fortune (December 2006)
• ‘Design for the Rest of the World: LifeStraw®’ The New York Sun (May 2007)