Moringa Oleifera... Shocking New Discovery

A very interesting method of water purification was released a couple of years ago, causing me to be a little surprised that I have yet to hear about it, especially as it proves to be both low-cost and efficient. As most of us are aware, many nations suffer from the lack of drinking water, particularly water in a purified form. Statistics show that nearly a billion people across Asia, Africa, and Latin America rely on untreated surface water for their daily needs, and of that approximately one billion people, about two million of those individuals die as a result of water borne diseases. A miraculous discovery has been made by Canadian researchers, involving the use of a tree called the Moringa Oleifera. This tree, a vegetable-producing tree with a wide variety of alternative uses, is found in nearly each of the regions suffering from lack of clean water. It has been found that the seeds from this tree can be crushed into a powder and used as a "water-soluble extract in suspension, [thus] resulting in an effective natural clarification agent for highly turbid and untreated pathogenic surface water." Proven effective, I can only hope that news of this discovery has been spread to those nations suffering from lack of clean water, and furthermore that world health organizations and similar programs striving to help those in need, are incorporating methods such as the planting of Moringa Oleifera's.