Sound Byte from National Public Radio USA
by Peter Kenyon
Link to NPR site: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124012949
An American in Yemen has become one of the few global manufacturers of affordable and deceptively simple ceramic water filters that could play a vital role in bringing safe drinking water to millions of people. Using technology that originated in Latin America, he sold 20,000 filters last year at $25 apiece, and hopes to expand his operations this year.
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Attached is the first part of the report from Dr. Kingsley Donkor and Megan Campbell of the Thompson Rivers University Chemistry department analyizing water from the first of two filters that were brought to be evaluated for the possiblility of problems with Barium in clay used to form filters. These results are for the new 100% Plainsman red earth filter. You can read the report but essentially even analysis of a un flushed filter shows the barium level to be one third of the allowable limit initially and then reduced to one third of that level very quickly.
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From Yemen Today Magazine: http://www.yemen-today.com/go/development/3376.html
31/12/2009 06:48:00 by : Sammi Aryani
Khadija al-Zafeni walks two kilometers to collect water from a rain-fed cistern three times a day. “My children were constantly sick because of the water.
Khadija al-Zafeni walks two kilometers to collect water from a rain-fed cistern three times a day. “My children were constantly sick because of the water. Each of them was stricken with severe diarrhea every month. It would reach the point to which they would be skinny and frail and sleep all day. For a mother, it’s hard to watch your children suffer like that.” This is the daily condition for the staggering 44 percent of Yemenis who currently live without access to clean drinking water, one of life’s most basic necessities, but also the one most easily taken for granted. However, Khadija is gratefully using the past tense, for, thanks to Richard Boni’s colloidal silver filters, her family has now been granted the right to drink water free of disease. As the Silver Filter Company expands, this could be the reality for the rest of Yemen’s rural and urban poor.
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Here is the English checklist of equipment for ceramic water filter factories. 355K Adode Acrobat (pdf)
