--- title: Ogilvy Colombia Filter Caps: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024 description: Find out why Ogilvy Colombia Filter Caps is one of the best inventions of 2024 canonical: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094779/ogilvy-colombia-filter-caps/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2024-10-30T11:39:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T11:54:31.235Z article:section: Business og:title: Ogilvy Colombia Filter Caps: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024 og:description: Find out why Ogilvy Colombia Filter Caps made this year's list og:url: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094779/ogilvy-colombia-filter-caps/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc378e435f1ec89e1/698a8a1cdb2987ed62270c75/filter-caps-best-inventions.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Ogilvy Colombia Filter Caps: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ogilvy Colombia Filter Caps: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024 twitter:description: Find out why Ogilvy Colombia Filter Caps made this year's list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc378e435f1ec89e1/698a8a1cdb2987ed62270c75/filter-caps-best-inventions.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Oct 30, 2024 # A Humanitarian Water Filter by [Chris Norris](https://time.com/author/chris-norris/) ## Chris Norris  Born of the urgent need its developers witnessed firsthand amid their work in South America, Baylor International Filsa Water, the Colombian Red Cross, and Ogilvy Colombia partnered to create [Filter Caps](https://filtercaps.co/en/) to make untreated water safe for consumption. "Every day in Colombia, the news is about child malnutrition in isolated or forgotten communities like La Guajira and El Choco," says Fabio Quiroga, Ogilvy Colombia's CEO. "So our team was really motivated to push boundaries." They used 3D-printing to craft layers of sweet-corn resin that shape the fixture that attaches to the top of a bottle, which users can fill from a well, pond, or river. Inside the cap, a chemical mixture of metals, minerals, and other ingredients (like activated carbon) filters out contaminants, impurities, and mineralizes the water to make it safe to drink. Each filter costs less than $6 and can filter 5 liters of water a day, and the company estimates that the 1,000 units they've distributed will provide as many 10,000 people with clean drinking water. 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