How a spray bottle started it all


  • Nation
  • Friday, 07 Dec 2018

PETALING JAYA: Some people may consider ironing a monotonous chore but it was this dull task that sparked the lightbulb in the mind of a housewife in finding a solution to problems affecting society at large.

As Teng Yu Mein sprayed water on the wrinkled clothes she hoped to smoothen, an idea suddenly struck her to come up with an invention to make clean drinking water accessible to marginalised communities.

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