Clean Water Machine

DesignCreated by the Leader of Tunbridge Wells Borough Council Could Provide Cheap Clean Drinking Water to Help Ebola-stricken Areas in Sierra Leone

The simple unit can be towed by a 4x4 and taken to remote communities where it can extract water from dirty ponds, rivers, bore holes and even the sea and turn it in to drinking water for 2,500 people for 1p a litre.

It was designed by David Juke's company Potable Water Solutions to help people in Africa and India.

But the pressing need of supplies in Sierra Leone to help with the deadly virus outbreak could mean the Hydrovoyager is soon on its way there.

Its unique selling point is that because it is so compact, it can be taken to ‘hard to reach' places where clean water is scarce, along dirt tracks or even loaded on to a small boat.

Distributor David Hesketh who lives in Frant told the Courier: "People either have no option but to drink water from bore holes or ponds or buy bottled water from water vendors which can be extremely expensive," he said.

He added: "There are other devices out there which would be called mobile but they are quite a substantial size, the size of a decent-sized garden shed or bigger and they cost thousands. They are used by governments where there have been disasters. They are mobile but not very mobile. David Jukes took the standard technology and miniaturised it."

The unit uses filtration to rid the water of sand and grit, then it desalinates it and finally the water passes through a UV tube which kills the "vast majority" of the bugs and viruses.

He said: "Once it has been delivered to wherever it is going it is as simple as putting the pipe in to the water source and the only moving part is a diesel generator. It produces eight litres of safe drinking water every minute or 7,500litres in a 12 hour day and that is sufficient to support a community of 2,500 people. The rejected water can be used to support livestock or irrigate crops."

Mr Hesketh said the beauty of the unit was it could be used across several communities, shuttling between each one, creating enough water for one village for a week before moving on to the next in rotation.

And this equipment which is distributed by Coretechs Solutions where Mr Hesketh is a partner could be on its way to Sierra Leone.

A World in Need representative Tamba M'Bayo, who has just arrived in England to talk about the ebola crisis, has seen a demonstration of the Hydrovoyager and is interested in the machine, said Mr Hesketh.

Source: Courier

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