Video: New machine turns human sweat into drinking water

A newly developed device called the "Sweat Machine" extracts and purifies sweat from clothes, transforming it into clean drinkable water.

The Sweat Machine was built by Engineer Andreas Hammar using HVR Water Purification AB technology developed at the The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

UNICEF partnered up with Gothia cup to run the campaign, titled "United for children", and raise money for water purification tablets for children. The organizers of the event encouraged participants to hand in their sweaty clothes and take a sip of clean drinking water which was once sweat.

Stefan Ronge, creative director at Deportivo, an advertising agency that supported the project together with UNICEF, said the idea of the invention was to highlight the shortage of fresh water in some regions of the world.

Thousands of children die every day because of contaminated water. Approximately 80 percent of disease in developing countries are associated with bad water and sanitation. An estimated 780 million people around the world do not have access to clean drinking water

The unusual "Sweat Machine" is a reminder that "we all share the same water. We all drink and sweat in the same way, regardless of how we look or what language we speak. Water is everyone's responsibility and concern."