Only a few are deployed, but thousands are helped.
Global aid giant, Mercy Corps, has partnered with the high-tech manufacturing and engineering company, Itt Corporation, to distribute portable water treatment systems to Pakistan in the wake of the flood crisis. The system being deployed is innovative in that few are needed, yet thousands of people are helped. According to Randy Martin of Mercy Corps and Bjorn Euler of Itt, the systems have already provided clean water to 110,000 Pakistani flood victims and only five water treatment systems are in place.
"The portable, self-contained water-filtration devices take impure water from a variety of sources including rivers, lakes, and wells and remove bacteria and contaminates via sand, charcoal, etc. Water is then injected with chlorine and stored in 10,000 gallon pillow tanks. Each pillow tank is either unloaded in bulk via tanker truck or distributed via tap stands. Each pillow tank can connect to four to five tap stands,...
Global aid giant, Mercy Corps, has partnered with the high-tech manufacturing and engineering company, Itt Corporation, to distribute portable water treatment systems to Pakistan in the wake of the flood crisis. The system being deployed is innovative in that few are needed, yet thousands of people are helped. According to Randy Martin of Mercy Corps and Bjorn Euler of Itt, the systems have already provided clean water to 110,000 Pakistani flood victims and only five water treatment systems are in place.
"The portable, self-contained water-filtration devices take impure water from a variety of sources including rivers, lakes, and wells and remove bacteria and contaminates via sand, charcoal, etc. Water is then injected with chlorine and stored in 10,000 gallon pillow tanks. Each pillow tank is either unloaded in bulk via tanker truck or distributed via tap stands. Each pillow tank can connect to four to five tap stands,...
- 9/3/2010
- by Jenara Nerenberg
- Fast Company
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