‘Everyone can benefit from handwashing’: how a new device is improving access to hygiene Inspired by watching his son playing in the bath, engineer Daigo Ishiyama created a tap that works without the need of running water.
This was the conundrum facing Ishiyama while he isolated in his New Jersey home in 2020 as news of the virus wreaking havoc around the world blared from his TV screen.
When Daigo Ishiyama contracted Covid in the spring of 2020, he felt grateful knowing he had the basics in place to keep his family safe.
“In the developed world, we tend to take access to water, sanitation, and hygiene for granted,” he says.
Permissions tbc] “We needed to approach the problem from the end user’s perspective and work backwards in order to create an appropriate and effective solution,” he says.
