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The Biosand Water Filter |
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| Vineyard Ministries Central Mexico and the Centre for Affordable Water
and Sanitation Technology (CAWST) have joined forces to disseminate water
filters in Mexico, including Mazatlán. The Biosand Water Filter is inexpensive,
sustainable, requires no chemicals or electric power, and the technology
is easy to make with local materials. The filter eliminates over 96% of
waterborne diseases, including parasites and amoebas, and produces up
to 12 gallons of pure water an hour. |
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| The Mazatlán task force is headed by Canadians Rod and Ingrid McCarroll,
of the Friends Who Care Charities Ltd. They have set up two-day workshops
to teach local communities how to build and operate the simple, self-sustaining
filter. Working with Fred, they have already put the water purifying filters
in each of the Vineyard churches and the Mazatlán orphanages, with later
plans to install them in colonia schools and small churches. |
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| As Rod McCarroll explains, “The technology is very inexpensive.
A village can build the filter for around $40US. It will service a
family of up to 20 and last for generations. If the family cannot
afford that, sometimes we will donate the filter or they can pay $1
a month to purchase it. There are over 4000 units in Honduras and
the Dominican Republic, 12,000 in Cambodia, 2,000 in Haiti and 700
in Cuba. We recently installed a filter at a Hogar de Niños
that spent $70US a month for purified water, a huge sum for them.
Now they have free, clean water for decades to come.” |
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| A donation of 1,000 pesos will purchase two Biosand Water Filters, one
for the purchaser and one to be donated to a needy family or community.
Delivery is free of charge in Mazatlán. Contact the Pacific Pearl office
at webmaster@pacificpearl.com
or Fred Collum at the Vineyard (tel: 913-0191 or 916-5114) for further
information. |
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