Fresh Water Availability
While fresh clean, water is taken for granted in many places, it is a scarce resource in others, due to either scarcity of water or contamination of water sources. Although 70 per cent of the world surface is covered by water, only 2.5 per cent of the water is fresh water. Nearly 70 per cent of the freshwater is frozen in ice caps, and most of the remaining is present as soil moisture, or lies in deep underground aquifers as inaccessible groundwater. Less than 1 per cent of the world freshwater resources is accessible for human use.
Newsletter, February 15, 2012:
Can water be too clean?
It is a widespread myth that drinking reverse osmosis filtered water, can lead to a lack of minerals in the human diet. Minerals are essential for the human body to control bone growth, metabolism, nerve and muscle functions etc. Important minerals are calcium, magnesium, sodium, iron, etc. It is a misconception that we obtain our daily mineral doses from water. Nevertheless, some people spend quite an effort to gain water containing the ‘correct’ number and distribution of minerals. The fact is that the food by far contributes with the majority of the daily need of minerals. Even with very mineral rich water it is impossible for the human body to receive enough minerals only by drinking water!
Is this glas of water too clean?
Reverse Osmosis is a well-known and widely accepted under-the-sink water purifying method, and the technology has been part of the food ingredient industry for decades. Reverse Osmosis purification gives as a result very high-quality drinking water, and is implemented in Pure H2O’s mobile BlueBox water purifying units, which makes them a suitable solution to provide safe drinking water anywhere in the world as long as surface water is present. They remove sediments, organic chemicals, bacteria, pathogens, as well as dissolved solids like minerals, heavy metals and aqueous salts. The filtration saves humans from mercury, cadmium, lead, chromium arsenic, etc. which can cause severe health issues and even be lethal, at the expense of removing ‘good’ minerals, which can be gained elsewhere. In spite of the removal of innocuous minerals, this should never be an argument of downplaying the importance of cleaning water polluted by disease-causing contaminants. The human vitamin- and mineral requirements will be met through the food intake.
The BlueBoxes supply drinking water in accordance with both the WHO guidelines and Sphere standards. The drinking water quality therefore suits all sorts of deployments, such as military use and emergency relief.
For more information, visit:
www.pureh2o.net
www.who.int
Newsletter, December 22, 2011:
Solar power driven water treatment unit suitable for emergency saves lives.
Every 20 second a child dies worldwide of diarrhea and other water borne diseases. The diseases mainly occur in areas with bad water conditions and high poverty. Sufficient amounts and easy access of clean water is one of many important steps to combat such diseases. As managing director Jesper Ellegaard puts it: ”Not everyone is privileged to quench one’s thirst when needed. I feel we have an obligation to alleviate the shortage of clean water.”
The BlueBox UF Solar
Pure H20’ BlueBox UF Solar makes it possible to treat water from any source. With the development of the BlueBox UF Solar a new solution has seen the light of the day. The BlueBox UF Solar is a development of BlueBox 1200, and is mounted on a trailer and connected to solar panels. The use of solar panels makes it suitable in areas where there is no electricity or where gasoline is scarce. The use of solar panels makes it environmentally friendly and easy to use even in very remote areas. The capacity is 1800 liters per hour at 25 degrees water.
The high quality of the clean water is achieved through ultrafiltration membrane technology, which cleans the water from all biological organisms, including all potential water borne diseases. The pump sucks in raw water, which is then fed through 4 pre-filtering processes (100 my, 25 my, 5 my coal filter), then ultra filtration and UV-light exposure. The unit will remove sediments, organic chemicals, bacteria, cysts, giardia, and cryptosporidium and similar pathogens. The system will remove heavy metals such as arsenic, but it will not remove aqueous salts or radiation compounds.
The drinking water quality is in accordance with both the WHO guidelines and Sphere standards. Together with the fast deployment time and sturdy design it is well suited for both NGO’s and emergency deployment.