The use of unsafe water as a source for
drinking, cooking, and bathing can lead to serious health complications.
Water
purification filters is a program to help eliminate parasites and reduce gastro
intestinal illness in families...
Noticing chronic intestinal sicknesses in the
children of San Nicolas, even after attention from medical brigades, the drinking water from
the wells of that community was found to be polluted.
As a result, in 2016 Amazing Comfort Ministries initiated the water filter program.
These simple yet highly effective bio-sand filters essentially remove parasites and other
water-borne pollutants. They are installed directly in the home by locally-hired
specialists, thus also providing employment, and will provide clean potable water to a
family for 10 years.
Amazing Comfort Ministries purchases the filters directly from another Christian
ministry in Honduras, at a unit cost of $120.
Honduras is the second poorest country in Central
America, with a per capita GDP of approximately $1,600. Nearly two-thirds of the population live
below the poverty line.
Many of the rural poor are subsistence farmers, barely growing only
enough food to feed their families and leaving little money for anything else.
More than one million Hondurans lack access to improved sanitation, and almost 650,000 lack
safe water. This is most prevalent in rural communities.
La Villa and San Nicolas are no
exception.
The Hydraid BioSand household water filter is a
lightweight, portable biosand filter intended for point-of-use water filtration and can provide
clean water for a family of eight to ten people.
Uncean source water is poured into the top
of the Hydraid filter. A diffuser plate helps to gently distribute the water over the surface of
the sand media.
A biological layer at the top of the sand contains “friendly” bacteria that
consume pathogenic organisms that are present in the water.
As the water makes its way
through the sand column, further disinfection of the water takes place through the actions of
mechanical trapping, predation, adsorption, and natural death.
Clean water collects at the
bottom of the filter and flows by gravity out of the filter through plastic piping attached to
the filter’s exterior.
A properly operating and maintained Hydraid Biosand Filter can
provide up to 48 liters of clean water per hour.
With reasonable care a Hydraid Biosand
Filter can last for 8 or more years.
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