Question: Does your work mean more people can have access to safe drinking water?

Helena Quilter answered on 17 Mar 2016:

Hi there. I don’t do that personally. I work in a research centre where people do that though! It’s very important work – there are 783 million people in the world who don’t have access to clean drinking water. One of my best friends is trying to use a material from trees to make really cheap water filters for developing countries and another guys is making little computers that can tell if there are any toxins in the water or if it’s safe to drink!