(water splashes)
- [Dan] This looks like so much fun!
Oh yeah, nice job!
- Welcome back to What's Inside.
I'm Lincoln, this is Dan, and today
we're gonna cut open a water filter.
- That's right, a giant water filter.
(laughs)
We're gonna do this for two reasons.
First of all, because you guys recommended it
so thanks a lot for that.
The second reason is because every year,
Bill and Melinda Gates write an annual letter
outlining their key take on global issues,
and this year's letter is entitled,
"Two Superpowers We Wish We Had".
In the letter, it challenges readers to imagine
if they had a super power for good,
what would it be, pretty cool thought right?
- Yeah.
- The goal of the letter is to broaden awareness
and get each of us involved to make a positive
lasting change in the world.
We've mentioned in a previous video
that I was born in the Philippines,
I lived there for a couple of years giving service.
If I had a super power for good, what would it be?
Mine would be to bring clean, drinkable water
to the entire world.
Here in America, a lot of us don't realize
how big of a need clean water is.
Here's a crazy stat for you.
If you took all of the people in the United States,
everybody, and then you doubled that number,
that number would be how many people
do not have access to clean drinking water.
- That's crazy.
- Here's some water that I got from our house here.
Before Lincoln comes and gets ready to film this,
I've got this cup.
Ooh, toilet water.
There we go, toilet water, non-toilet water.
Alright before you drink it, let me just tell Lincoln.
One of these is toilet water, from our toilet.
- Oh no.
(laughs)
- So Lincoln was really quick to drink it,
do you want to drink one now?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, you wanna drink some toilet water?
- This is toilet water?
- I don't know.
- Yeah you do.
- Haha, I do know.
- This one's toilet water?
- Could you tell the difference between the two?
- Yeah, this one has more bubbles than this one.
- Okay, so which one is the toilet water then?
- This one.
- You're wrong, it's this one.
The water here in our toilets, here in America,
is actually cleaner than most of the drinking water
that's in the developing countries around the world.
- That's crazy.
- Isn't that sad.
But rather than just sit and talk about the needs,
I gotta show you guys, and I've gotta show Lincoln!
(upbeat electronic music)
- [Dan] It's backwards, you flip it.
- Oh.
(water gushing)
- Here we go, here comes the jump.
Let's see it.
Whoo!
This water is where they're swimming,
they're having fun, it's a blast.
It's a little bit cold but these kids love it,
but it isn't just somewhere to play like a swimming pool.
This is the place where you clean your clothes,
where you swim and have fun, and also
where you take your bath, and where you get your water.
We're gonna fill this up with some water.
Now, I'm gonna put this back in
and now we're gonna take it over to the house,
which the thing is pretty heavy.
And in case you didn't see it,
there's a pig right there, he's just hanging out.
He's got a rope that's tied to that tree right there
and then I guess he can just swim in the water
so you can see why diarrhea is the number two
killer in a lot of the developing world.
It's because water is such a precious commodity,
you get it from wherever you can.
If this is the best option, this is the best option.
Alright, we got our water, it is heavy, let's go.
The interesting thing is, you just saw me
fill it up with water from the river.
It keeps the water in there unpurified the whole time
until you need to use it, and so,
that's nice, because sometimes people will
purify their water, the have drinking water,
but then they'll let it sit out for a day or two days
and then, it might not be clean anymore
by the time you wanna drink it.
Alright, so let's pump that up.
(squeaking)
I don't know if you can feel hotter than it is here.
You probably see the sweat on my face but
it is very hot, right Linc.
And when you tighten it up, that has the pressure in it,
and so the water that's coming out of here
goes through the actual filter and it sprays out.
- Whoa Dad!
- See that, it's pretty good right.
That's clean drinking water.
(slow relaxing music)
What's up guys, we're cruising in our tric,
a motorcycle with this little basket.
We're here at our friend's house in the Philippines
and this is where most people get their water.
There's two of these in the neighborhood,
and then they come over, they fill up their buckets
and then they carry them all the way over to their house.
Here's the house, so here's the living room,
a bedroom, see most of the floors are concrete
or dirt here, and then here's where the cooking area,
so you bring your jug right here, you have where you cook
and then the bathroom is down there.
This is the bathroom in the Philippines.
Here's the toilet, you take a bucket of water,
you dump the water in.
It just has an umbrella right here
and some tarps and clothes and toilet.
You just dump the water in there and it washes out.
(upbeat electronic music)
- Back in America, it is so cold.
I miss the beaches in the Philippines.
- Oh it was so warm there right.
- Yeah.
- Oh, and the people were so nice and awesome
and it was so good to be there.
For many years of my life, I've been able
to give back to the Filipino people.
It was nice to be able to give them
some water filters while we were there.
We do have one back here in America,
because of course, you want to see what's inside of it,
we have to cut one open.
That's the side where the filter actually is.
Interesting, look how that works.
Isn't that cool, so the water all goes into there
and somehow gets filtered and then come out of that.
Must be the nanofilters right in there.
So we definitely need to cut this open for sure.
I'm not gonna cut this big blue container
because I would rather replace the filters
and then be able to give this to somebody that needs it.
And then on the other side, here's the pump,
you remember the pump.
Pumps it up.
Look at that.
(upbeat hip hop music)
Alright Lincoln, I think I cut all the way through it.
It's pretty close.
- Oh yeah, I can see it too.
- Alright, let's see what this filter looks like.
- Cool.
- Whoa.
- It's like big sticks.
- It's like straws.
- Yeah.
- These little plastic things must be the actual filter,
like they're small enough for the water to go in there
and then see, look inside, see you can see
what it looks like at the top, how it has those holes.
- Yeah.
- So if you can see all the holes at the top,
somehow it filters into here and goes up and out.
It just has those little tubes.
It's like little tiny tubes.
This is supposed to be able to filter out
99.9% of viruses, I mean they say
don't use like the dirtiest water you can find,
which obviously it might not filter all the way
but it should be able filter 99.9% of the viruses,
'cause this outer layer of hard plastic
and it has inner layer of red plastic
and then it just gets to these white
straw-type materials, which is the actual filter,
that's really really fascinating.
I don't know, I didn't think that's
what it was gonna look like inside.
- Yeah, that is weird that these little plastic things
filter out all the water that you drink.
- It's amazing that they can invent something like that.
The bottom line is, there are people out there
that need help, and one water filter
is not going to save the world.
Go to the Bill and Melinda Gates annual letter,
it's in the link in the description below.
Read it, and think about, if you had a superpower for good,
what would it be?
- Leave it in the comments below.