Emergency Water Purifier for Flood Conditions
by Jerry James Stone in Drinking Water, Purification, Technology
For this year’s Aspen Design Challenge — which had the theme Designing Water’s Future — Umea Institute of Design student Ceren Bagatar proposed the following concept: a Rescue Bottle.
The bottle is designed to address not only the scarcity of fresh water the world is facing, but mostly the contaminated and hazardous water conditions due to flooding, hurricanes and tsunamis. Those disasters expose and contaminate surface water, ground water and drinking water supplies with a variety of elements: toxins, chemicals, septic and animal carcasses.
The Rescue Bottle filters contaminated water through a reverse osmosis membrane using the driving force of highly concentrated dioralyte solution. The bottle has a 500 ml capacity and has an interchangable mouthpiece for multi-user usage. The dioralyte solution supports 15 batches of drinking water.
Awesome concept, Ceren!
Photo courtesy of Yanko Design
Photo courtesy of Yanko Design
Photo courtesy of Yanko Design
Source [Yanko Design]
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Posted on May 28, 2009
concept, Design, design challenge, Drinking Water, flood conditions, flooding, ground water, reverse osmosis
About the Author
Jerry James Stone
Jerry is a web developer, part-time blogger and a full-time environmentalist. His crusade for all things eco started twenty years ago when he ditched his meat-and-potatoes upbringing for something more vegetarian-shaped. Jerry also blogs over at Treehugger. His passions include green tech, eco politics and smart green design. And while he doesn't own a car anymore, he loves to write about those too. Jerry studied at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, CA. During his time there he was a DJ at the campus station KCPR and he also wrote for the campus paper. Jerry currently resides in San Francisco, CA with his cat Lola. You can stalk him on Twitter @jerryjamesstone.3 Responses to “Emergency Water Purifier for Flood Conditions”
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May 30, 2009
That is good, but this is better:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/6999169.stm
P.N.Chetty
Oct 04, 2009
Dear Sir, 4th October, 2009
Your invention is wonderful and could save millions of flood victions. As District Chairman, Water Management in The International Association of Lions clubs, District 324-C1, my congratulations to you provided it is within the reach of a common person. Could you provide more information about the cost of unit, cost of replacement cartridges, quantity of water that can be processed by each cartridge and ultimately cost for processing a liter of flood water.
With regards,
Lion P.Nukaiah Chetty
9-19-33, Sunkaravari Street, ANAKAPALLE-531 001 (INDIA)
Gordon
Dec 20, 2009
Great idea to filter flood water. How about other water filters? Here is to compare top water filters.