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Innovative Bicycle is Designed to Meet Needs of Urban Poor
By Derek Newberry, The City Fix, June 12, 2008

The product is called the Aquaduct, a tricycle designed by a team of five at IDEO that stores water in a twenty gallon tank in the back of the bike’s wide, blue frame. As the user travels back home, the energy they expend pedaling is used to filter the water into a removable two gallon tank that rests in front of the handlebars.

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