Seeking to Change the Emergency Relief Paradigm: Caminos de Agua Becomes A National Finalist for its New Water Filter Design
News Category: News and Community News
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After the devastating earthquakes and hurricanes that hit the region in 2017 – and after witnessing the extreme inefficiency and cost of shipping bottled water to those emergency zones – Caminos de Agua decided to consider the potential of our technologies for disaster relief situations. We went to work on a new water filter that attaches to nearly any container in minutes and with no training required – ideal for emergency response where the water available can be treated quickly, on site, and with locally available materials. Show Less.
At about the size and weight of a 1-liter bottle of water, our new Aguadapt filter concept can produce more than 27,000-liters of drinking water over its lifetime and transition from emergency relief to a permanent water solution for families. Utilizing Caminos de Agua’s certified Ceramic Filter, a refillable cartridge, and a newly-designed universal adapter, Aguadapt removes biological pathogens, organic chemicals, and can even be modified to remove arsenic, fluoride, and other contaminants – all at a price accessible for a family living on less than USD $2 per day.
Caminos de Agua is a community focused, data-driven, and science-oriented non-governmental organization (NGO) based in San Miguel de Allende. We drive to empower local at-risk communities to obtain adequate supplies of safe and healthy drinking water. Today, Caminos de Agua is a team of ten full- and part-time employees, plus several graduate-level engineering and public interest interns from Engineers Without Borders UK and other universities and institutions. We’re a mix of expat residents and Mexicans, technologists and community organizers, researchers and educators, united by our concern for public health and welfare. Caminos de Agua is organized as a registered nonprofit in both the U.S. and Mexico. At Caminos de Agua, we believe that access to safe, healthy drinking water should be a fundamental human right. We help communities at risk confront challenges of water quality and scarcity through:
1. Water monitoring 2. Education 3. Community-led solutions 4. Research and development 5. Activism
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