The MFRFP's Water Purifier
The Multi Functional Rural
Fuel Platform is fitted with a water purification system, so that the water
pumped in by the MFRFP can be cleaned, prior to distribution.
Why Clean Water?
More than 1.1
billion people around the world do not have access to clean drinking water and
waterborne illness is the cause of death of over 4,400 people per day, most of
them children under the age of five.
“A sub-Saharan
baby has 500 times the risk of dying from diarrhea compared with a baby
born in the developed world: improving drinking water quality would reduce
that risk substantially.”
- WHO/UNICEF, Water
for Life, 2005
If people do not have a steady
supply of good-quality water that is sufficient to meet their daily needs, this
can lead to disease through two principal transmission routes.
- Waterborne disease
transmission occurs by drinking contaminated water.
- Water-washed disease occurs
when there is insufficient water for washing and personal hygiene.
The lack of water means people
can't keep their hands, bodies and domestic environments clean: skin and eye
infections then spread easily.
Next ->
Clean Water Links
Applied Ozone Systems -
http://www.appliedozone.com
Aqua Science -Drinking Water from air -
http://www.aquasciences.com
Centre for Affordable
Water and Sanitation Technology -
http://www.cawst.org
Ceramic Water Filter -
http://www.purifier.com.np
Financing Water For All -
http://www.financingwaterforall.org
HTI Forward Flow Osmosis Water
Filters -
http://www.htiwater.com
Joint WHO and UNICEF World
Water watch program -
http://www.wssinfo.org
http://www.wssinfo.org/showTable.php?population&water&startYear=1990&endYear=2002
Loughborough University Water Technology Selection Guide -
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/well/resources/technical-briefs/49-choosing-an-appropriate-technology.pdf
Life Water -
http://www.lifewater.ca
Island Skywater - Drinking Water from air -
http://www.islandsky.com
Ozone Water Purifier (Kerrville, TX) -
http://www.ozonepurewater.com
Ozone Solutions, IA -
http://www.ozoneapplications.com
Ozone Supplies -
http://www.ozonesupplies.com
Potters for Peace Ceramic Filter -
http://www.potpaz.org/pfpfilters.htm or
http://www.pottersforpeace.org
Planet Kerala Solar Distillation -
http://www.planetkerala.org
Safe Drinking Water Network -
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/twnsosdwn/messages/
Solutions Benefiting Life - Micro Filter Manf Business -
http://www.solutionsbenefitinglife.com
Safe Water Systems -
http://www.safewatersystems.com
Solar Water Disinfection -
http://www.sodis.ch
Solar One Water Purifier -
http://www.solarone.net/Products/harvester_waterpurifier.html
World Water Council -
http://www.worldwatercouncil.org
World Health Organization's Guide to Drinking water -
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/gdwq2v1/en/index.html
