When disaster strikes or an emergency becomes a reality, one of the most crucial things in life is often disrupted. During catastrophic occurrences, water service can disappear in a minute. Just when people need it most to drink, to help clean up injuries, or for sanitary reasons, all of a sudden it's no longer there, and then panic starts to set in...
In Pakistan, people are forced to endure a lot of hardships. One of the greatest of these is the lack of clean, fresh water. Every year approximately 30% of all deaths in the country are caused by pathogens in the drinking water. In this figure is the fact that 250,000 children die annually from waterborne illnesses...
No matter where in the world a disaster happens, mobile drinking water trailers can be flown in to provide the victims with fresh water they so desperately need. With these mobile water purification systems, there is no longer a need to lift in thousands of bottles of water. The equipment housed in the trailer can convert local resources into a product that is free of bacteria, bad odors, and nasty tastes...
In September, 2009, severe earthquakes devastated the capital of West Sumatra in Indonesia. Thousands of people were left without sanitary drinking water when the water supply station serving 60% of the population was put out of commission. Since water is a critical resource in keeping people healthy, and none of us can live without it, people began drinking unsafe water from the rivers and canals, and they began getting sick...
Sad but true, there are a lot of people in the world who are being forced to drink unsafe water every day of their lives. Due to this horrific fact, these people face lots of serious diseases and premature death, because pure water is one of the necessities of a healthy life. The drinking water in these countries is contaminated with human filth, chemical wastes, and bacteria, and yet the people have no way of cleaning it up...
