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Unfriendly Water: A Worldwide Plague
By Franklyn Gallup of WoodFloorist.com
Today I had planned to help friends refinish their wood floors all day. I found out on arriving that they were spending the morning finishing up a five day course about how to make water filtration units for places around the world where clean water is a real problem. This sounded like an interesting undertaking so I decided to check it out. I didn't realize that it would take 3 hours but found it well worth the time I invested. The problem
I found out that 3.5 million people die of water-related diseases every year. A child dies of a waterborne disease every 20 seconds. In the past decade, more people have died of water-related causes than from all wars combined.
The solution
Teach people how to teach others how to make a local water filtration system that people in areas where clean water is needed could make using local materials.
I had ended up sitting in on the fifth day of a five day course and was trying to understand what was being discussed. The conversation at first was focused on the acceptance of help from people outside the country in need of clean water. The discussion was very positive. After the inside discussion the group went out to undo the molds that they had made the previous day. Once outside I saw four concrete boxes with water in them and two steel boxes. I took pictures and listened to try and understand what I was looking at. The four concrete boxes filled with water were poured and released from the mold during the first four days of the course. They were filled with water to help with the curing process. My focus quickly went to the two steel boxes. The steel was the mold for making the water filtration systems. There were two new units that had been created the day before inside the mold still. Everyone was getting excited to unwrap the two new systems. I would later learn that I was looking at the boxes upside down. There was a box inside forming the inside of the system and this had to be removed very carefully first. They turned the box so the top was on the bottom and attached a device with a big threaded rod and a nut on top. This was designed to extract the inside box out of the form. There were many hands working on undoing the bolts and nuts so the extraction process could begin. One of the things I found interesting was that they coated the steel with Crisco oil before pouring the concrete into the mold so the concrete did not stick to the steel. Once the inside form is removed the outside form is removed. One part forms three sides and the other piece of the form forms the forth side. It has the part where the filtered clean water comes out. The form will be filled with biosand and they teach people how to make this filtering sand. The overall idea is to make a filtration system which will produce clean water for thirty years. It is designed to be simple to learn to make on site where clean water is needed. Grasping the concept After looking and listening I started to wonder how I would explain this to someone. Essentially, this is like a Brita Filter made out of concrete the size of a water fountain. It has been designed simple enough so common people can learn to make them with local materials. Using concrete instead of plastic means it will last for generations. It turns contaminated water into pure clean drinking water. I was told a location with the steel molds could produce one filter a day or 365 a year. How does it work? Take a minute and Click here How it works. This will explain it better than I can. The design is pure genius. How much does it cost? Take a minute and Click here to see WITH HOW MUCH MONEY
The Mission I have included a map with pink tags of where these units are being used and orange tags of where someone wants to go and train people to make them. One of the things that really made me realize the importance of this work is that people had taken the expense to travel from Africa to take part and learn from this 5 day training course here in Washington state.
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FriendlyWaterfortheWorld.com
| How It Works
| Calculate your water footprint
| BioSand Filter information from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| One minute video explaining how a biosand filter works
                      
Friendly Water for the world
One of the two steel boxes containing a new water filtration system
The devise used to extract the insdie form
Lots of anticipation getting everything ready to extract the inside form
A large wrench begins to extract the inside form by turning the nut
The inside form is being lifted out
The inside form has been removed
The system with the inside form removed
There is tape protecting the hose at the bottom of the unit. This gal is removing the tape.
I took a picture of the inside of the unit. Notice the hose at the bottom.
Once the inside form is removed the nuts are undone to remove the outside form.
This is one part of the outside form. The fourth side is what the bolts and nuts hold in place
This is the fourth side of the outside form being washed off.
What a finished biosand filtration system looks like
Pink tags on this map indicate where they are being used and orange tags show where they are still needed
A scale model in clear plastic to show how it works
Mark 9:41 tells us about water
All living things need water
The mission of Friendly Water for the World
Working directly with the communities
Biosand filter components
Removes harmful waterborne bacteria and viruses
Affordable and durable
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Many take water for granted: just go to the faucet & turn it on. We don't think of those, even right here in the U.S., who don't have drinkable water "at hand." We don't think how much is wasted as we wash dishes, wash our hands & faces, take a bath or shower, or wash a couple pieces of clothing. But there are too many who don't have drinkable water, let alone water they can wash their hands, faces, bodies with. It's is exciting to see that someone is doing something about this. Sign me up for the next class!
 | | tink-r Jul 10, 2011 03:03 |  appreciated |
CONTRIBUTOR'S REPLY
You are so right. A lot of us do take clean water for granted.
Everyone should have access to clean and hygienic water.
When I was in Cambodia traveling I saw some nasty sights, like a young boy playing in a trench, there was a cow in the trench with him and to my surprise he pulled out a cup from his pocket and drank the water from the trench it was nasty brown water with cow poo in and around it.
It’s about time the western world takes action, Just look at the Horn of Africa famine and drought.
Water is Life's Soulmate. Water makes the world go round, world go round, world go round.We have an Artesian well in Olympia ,WA., which I visit every few days.
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