2006-02-17

Invention may bring power and clean water to the world's poor

Dean Kamen, the engineer who invented the Segway, is puzzling over a new equation these days. An estimated 1.1 billion people in the world don't have access to clean drinking water, and an estimated 1.6 billion don't have electricity. Those figures add up to a big problem for the world and an equally big opportunity for entrepreneurs.

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