{"id":111840,"date":"2020-08-24T04:23:13","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T11:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/millions-of-people-worldwide-die-every-year-from-waterborne-diseases-because-of-a-lack-of-affordable-practical-disinfection-technologies"},"modified":"2020-08-24T04:23:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T11:23:13","slug":"millions-of-people-worldwide-die-every-year-from-waterborne-diseases-because-of-a-lack-of-affordable-practical-disinfection-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/millions-of-people-worldwide-die-every-year-from-waterborne-diseases-because-of-a-lack-of-affordable-practical-disinfection-technologies","title":{"rendered":"Millions of people worldwide die every year from waterborne diseases because of a lack of affordable, practical disinfection technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/millions-of-people-worldwide-die-every-year-from-waterborne-diseases-because-of-a-lack-of-affordable-practical-disinfection-technologies2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To address this need, researchers have developed a strong, flexible filter out of a silica aerogel that efficiently kills bacteria, resists getting clogged, and needs just a quick dip in dilute bleach to renew its disinfecting properties.<\/p>\n<p>Read about the loofah-inspired aerogel here: <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3lhulJo?fbclid=IwAR3mLvaN1ruT0KRaTWynbxoTe9O91fK7hTyeNtdnRQvEJRjZ93d-jDXqNUU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" role=\"link\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3lhulJo?fbclid=IwAR3mLvaN1ruT0KRaTWynbxoTe9O91fK7hTyeNtdnRQvEJRjZ93d-jDXqNUU\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3lhulJo?fbclid=IwAR3mLvaN1ruT0KRaTWynbxoTe9O9\u20263d-jDXqNUU<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To address this need, researchers have developed a strong, flexible filter out of a silica aerogel that efficiently kills bacteria, resists getting clogged, and needs just a quick dip in dilute bleach to renew its disinfecting properties. Read about the loofah-inspired aerogel here: https:\/\/bit.ly\/3lhulJo?fbclid=IwAR3mLvaN1ruT0KRaTWynbxoTe9O9\u20263d-jDXqNUU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}