Petra Wadström

Swedish inventor

Petra Wadström
Petra Wadström (born 20 February 1952) is a Swedish inventor of a water purification device called Solvatten, which is a portable device that heats and purifies dirty local water in locations with access to significant amounts of sunshine. . Life and work. Wadström did biochemical medical research at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, and then moved to Basel, Switzerland, to join a team exploring DNA research. While living in Australia for a year in the late 1990s, Wadström tackled one problem of families living off-the-grid, lack of access to clean water. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra_Wadstr%C3%B6m

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