Potters for Peace: Ceramic Water Filters

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Mon, 3 Apr 2006 19:58:07 +0200

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Potters for Peace: Ceramic Water Filters

 

 

 

 

Ceramic Water Filters

 

I don't know which I like more: the fact that a group called Potters

for Peace actually exists, or the fact they seem to be quiet superheroes.

 

Specifically, they make a ceramic water filter which, it would appear,

is high-tech (colloidal-silver-saturated earthenware), low-cost,

easy-to-use and filters out " approximately 99.88% of most water born

disease agents. " They also make energy-efficient kilns. It makes me

inexplicably happy to know that the potters are throwing down for

sustainability.

 

Their numbers are completely amazing: the filters are made locally in

places like Nicaragua and Guatemala and retail for around $9. Skilled

potters can set up a production line in a couple of weeks, and an

actual press to crank filters out at the rate of several dozen a day

costs about three or four thosand dollars (if I remember right - it

might have been $800).

 

$3/year for potable water (a filter lasts about three years) with

local skills and local materials. This is the good stuff.

 

 

quiet superheroes is right. i know one of the potters, lynette yetter,

who is truly a superhero. she gives of herself unselfishly, and really

struggles to promote the ability of indigenous people to be self

sustaining in an increasingly complex world. i would definitely

encourage anyone who is interested in supporting a project that really

directly effects the lives of the people it professes to, to contact

potters for peace.

 

Here are some web sites with more ceramic filter information:

 

POTTERS FOR PEACE

http://www.potpaz.org/pfpfilters.htm

 

 

UN Brochure on Ceramic filter Technology

Publicación de la Naciones Unidas sobre el filtro:

http://www.ideassonline.org/bros_view_eng.asp?id=28 (ENGLISH)

http://www.ideassonline.org/pdf/br_28_59.pdf (SPANISH)

 

http://www.who.int/household_water/en/

 

 

USAID REPORT on the Ceramic Water filter (Danielle Latange,CDC):

Informe financiado por USAID sobre el filtro

http://www.edc-cu.org/pdf/report1-final.pdf

 

 

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISES :

http://www.ide-international.org/Page.asp?NavID=210

 

 

GUATEMALA (AFA GUATEMALA FITLER

http://www.waterfiltersforthepoor.com

 

PRACTICA FOUNDATION/HOLLAND Small Smart Water Solutions book

http://www.practicafoundation.nl/smartwater/csp.htm

 

Engineers without borders

http://www.edc-cu.org/filtron.htm

 

CAMBODIA: RECOURSE DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL

http://www.rdic.org/waterceramicfiltration.htm

 

USDA:http://www.fas.usda.gov/excredits/gfe/Nicaragua%20visit%209_02.html

 

NICARAGUA FILTRON (in Spanish)

http://www.filtronnica.com

 

MIT :

http://web.mit.edu/watsan/img_nicaragua_ceramic.htm

 

THAILAND filters

http://www.burmeseyouthproject.homestead.com/burma.html

 

NEPAL AND INDIA filters

http://www.solutionsbenefitinglife.com/gallery.htm

 

Other

SWISS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY:

Poverty Alleviation as a Business

http://www.intercooperation.ch/sed/product/heierli/main.html