This idea was formed when my family and I went backpacking for the first time. We could not carry all the water we needed for the duration of the trip, so we brought a portable filter and planned to purify water from a nearby lake. However, it was a squeeze based water filter, and it took an hour of hard work to purify enough water for our whole family. Because of our struggle for purification with the help of a filter, I started to wonder how much harder it must be for people without access to a filter to decontaminate their water. This backpacking experience was when I first saw the need for easy access to clean water, and after doing more research on the problem, I was inspired to work on this project.