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Point-of-use water treatment has the potential to provide populations affected by natural or manmade disasters with immediate and sustained access to clean water.
Each household is enabled to take responsibility for its own supply of drinking water. Relief agencies are then better able to focus on sanitation, medical care and security. Portable and reusable point-of-use products are more cost-effective than tankered water or site-specific solutions and can be used by people long after the emergency has subsided. Point-of-use products enable populations affected by flooding to treat surface water.
The point-of-use water treatment product most suited to deployment during an emergency is the lightweight low-cost gravity-fed ceramic drip filter. Drip filters distributed with appropriate water collection and storage containers provide households with a complete drinking water solution. |
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