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Pro-Youth Association
H2WOO - Water Well CleaningKitAnca Pricop
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Context
The problem addressed by this project is thatwhile Romania is a member of EU, only 16%of its rural drinking water sources are safe touse.
Also Romania rural economy was affected in2011 by E. coli infection of cucumbers, withan estimated local impact of 9 mil. euro forJune 2011 alone.
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Context Commercial water filtering devices are
expensive or very difficult to use. The offer isquite large but all present several drawbacks: Cheaper solutions process relatively small volumes
rural areas require large volumes for foodproduction;
Processing large volumes is expensive ruralareas are usually poorer and government
investments are limited; Some cleaning methods use chemical or
biological products with considerableenvironmental impact.
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Idea
We propose a filtration device based on
microbial fuel cells and slow sand, easy to
install and maintain, low cost, to improve
water quality through filtration andinactivation of both biological and chemical
agents in a non-polluting, non-toxic,
autonomous way.The kit will include an instruction manual and
several kit versions depending on the
locally available materials.
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Idea
Small amount investments in bio-compatiblefiltration and monitoring devices, such asmicrobial fuel cells, could have helped save
at least 550 mil. euro in agriculturaldamages, more than 20 mil. euro fortreatments and prevented at least 19confirmed deaths.
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How it works ?
The proposed solution is a kit for filtering andmonitoring water from water wells, having twocomponents:
1. A comprehensive instruction manual onhow to build the filter and/or monitoringdevice. The manual will include detailedinstructions on how to choose materials and
items, on how to find equivalent parts, on howusing different types of filtering agents impactthe impurities, on the factors that influence thesafety of water etc.
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How it works ?
2. A variable set of items required to
complete the filtering/monitoring device. The
kit should be flexible enough in providing onlythe items not available locally, in order to
minimize the overall costs. At its minimum, the
kit includes a contaminant detection kit based
on microbial fuel cells.
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How it works ?
A microbial fuel cells is a device thatconverts chemical energy to electricalenergy by the reaction of
microorganisms.
Bacteria needs energy to survive, in thesame way that humans needs food to live.
However, this extensive treatment isjustified by the electricity produced whilecleaning the wastewater.
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Key benefits
There is a variety of products on the
market for water filtration. Through our
solution we will have the followingadvantages:
1. The product is cheap and uses locally
available materials;2. It's easy to make and it comes with a
comprehensive guide;
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Key benefits
3. Allows chemical and biological
decontamination; all chemical
decontamination devices are expensive;
the needed components for chemicalcleaning are already in water, we're just
providing the right environment;
4. It is self-powering and is monitoring atthe same time water quality;
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Key benefits
5. It is organic - in balance with the entire
environment.
6.Through the performance of microbial fuel
cells we can produce electricity directly
from wastewater.
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Key benefits
But power energy is just the secondarybenefit. First of all we want to clean the
wastewater. MFCs clean wastewater in
an energy efficient way. That is wherethe real benefit is.
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Final thoughts
As a prospective we can apply this idea inall the developing countries throughreligious missions, locally non-
governmental and governmentalorganization directly involved with thepotential customers. They will help usmake some campaigns for informing the
people about this device and teachingthem how to use it.
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Partners
Our partners are: the University of
Bucharest 3Nano-SAE Research Center -
providing scientific support and the Gorj
Local County Council County, DeltaCultural Foundation, C4C Association -
from which we will use their infrastructure
to extend our reach.