The 'Gift of Water' to Those in Poverty
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Technology
Gift of Water provides a small water purification system to help Haitians gain access to clean drinking water.
Two buckets filled with chlorine tablets is all it takes for one Carmel organization to give clean drinking water to those in poverty.
“It’s not a flashy system, it’s not a flashing organization. We're all volunteers and we only have two employees in Haiti, but it truly does save a life one bucket at a time,” said Laura Moehling, director of operations at Gift of Water.
The system works when dirty water is poured into one of the buckets filled with chlorine tablets. The dirty water goes through a string filter and then travels through another to remove heavy metals.
Moehling said providing the buckets has been a good start, but it’s not enough.
"The benefit of our system is not only that it produces bottle-quality water, but we also use the community - so it’s a community based program,” she said. “Since 2010, we've shipped 25,000 and placed them in homes in Haiti."
The Gift of Water purification process is quite simple and similar to most public systems used in the United States today.
The system incorporates both a physical filtration step for particle removal and a chlorination step for disinfection. This dual approach leads to high-quality treated water.
The Gift of Water system follows a two-bucket approach. The process involves prechlorination to disinfect the raw water from bacteria, followed by a 1 micron (μm) polypropylene string filter to remove suspended solids and larger disease-causing protozoa in the first bucket.
The second bucket involves granular activated carbon (GAC) to remove organics and residual disinfectants, and then post-chlorination to keep the product water safe from recontamination. Users access the treated water via a tap in the bottom bucket.
Sources: The Indy Channel and Gift of Water
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