This Amazing Invention Is Saving Countless Lives After Typhoon Haiyan Andri Antoniades - TakePart
go to original January 22, 2014

WaterStep's Mark Hogg and Kurtis Daniels reflect on their time in the Philippines, where WaterStep set up a training center in Cebu City to train disaster relief organizations in the installation, operation, and maintenance of WaterStep's M-100 chlorine generator. (watersteptv)

When natural disaster strikes, one of the first and most significant casualties is clean water: Humans can only go so long without liquids, and as days pass without functioning infrastructure bacteria spread and multiply and with them, the threat of disease.

Large aid organizations’ solution has often been to send 747s stocked with cases of bottled water to the affected areas. But drop-offs like this can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and leave behind a large stream of plastic waste.

Enter WaterStep, a Kentucky-based aid organization that says it’s come up with a clever solution: the M-100 Chlorine Generator, a football-size water filter that allows survivors to produce up to 10,000 gallons of potable water per day.

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