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  • From: loren luyendyk <loren@sborganics.com>
  • To: Permaculture Listserve <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Pure Water Revolution- NOT
  • Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 01:05:31 +0000


With all due respect, this is a well meaning project but it relies on the
same thinking and approach as most NGO's use, and is actually a band-aid as
he claims other methods are. Is it really empowering people to provide
themselves clean water, or is it merely promoting the current paradigm that
the 3rd world be reliant on the first world to help them?
How much does the unit cost? Certainly more than the intended recipients can
afford, therefor the project will rely on donors to support it. Where is it
built? It is manufactured from refined materials that are hard to come by in
non-industrialized areas. It is likely that this unit would be dismantled
and used for something else in extremely poor areas.
Also- it relies on boiling the water in order to distill it. This means that
people will need either gas stoves or firewood to get clean water, further
exacerbating the issue of affordability and the problem of deforestation.
What about solar distillation which can be achieved with a sheet of plastic,
a cup, and vegetation? Would it be more empowering to teach people the
PRINCIPLES of water filtration as opposed to selling a pre-fabbed unit?

Same model, not a real solution. It actually makes me angry as this is an
ignorant approach to aid, though I realize the project means well and is
intended to address possibly the most pressing issue facing the world, clean
water. It may be suitable for certain situations though it would not be in
many.
There are many complicated issues to creating truly lasting and sustainable
solutions to the water crisis, this site attempts to address hard
questions:http://waterservicesthatlast.wordpress.com/2011/10/10/the-naked-truth/


Our organization has attempted small scale water filtration projects so I
have a little experience with
this:http://www.surferswithoutborders.org/Slow_Sand_Filter.html

I do not have the answers but I have been asking questions-
> Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 18:48:02 -0400
> From: venaurafarm@bellsouth.net
> To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [permaculture] Pure Water Revolution
>
> On 5/7/2012 5:53 PM, Marjory wrote:
> > There is a some really nice work being done to develop, small, rugged,
> > drinking water stills to alleviate the crisis from lack of clean water.
> >
> > Check out:
> >
> > http://www.purewaterrevolution.org/
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Marjory Wildcraft
> Excellent. We need mopre of this. I understand the Berkey filters are
> very good.
>
> LL
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