Customizing Each Project
July 17, 2014
A child collects safe water from a chlorinator
A Water Missions International team will go into a community and perform an assessment. Our engineers look at the community’s water needs, geography, and economy, among other things. They’ll design a solution to the community’s lack of safe water. If there isn’t a viable water source in the community, such as a river or lake, our team will work with the community to drill boreholes to serve as the main water source. If such a source already exists, our team will perform tests to determine what level of filtration and treatment will be required.
Depending on the water source, our engineers will install a treatment system. If the water just needs to be treated, but not filtered for dirt or other contaminants, they might install a chlorinator to purify the water with chlorine. If the water needs more than just chlorine to make it safe and potable, they might install our Living Water™ Treatment System, which filters and then chemical disinfects water. Even the power source for the system is customizable—either solar or diesel fuel—depending on what best suits the community.
Community members can collect safe water from tapstands such as this one outside of the enclosure housing this community's treatment system.
A safe water solution doesn’t end with making the water safe to drink. A community isn’t going to be transformed by safe water if they still have to spend most of the day walking to get it, so part of the solution involves making the water accessible. Depending on the geography and layout of the community, our engineers might have the water piped from the treatment system to tapstands around the community, or they may build an enclosure in a centralized location where the system operator can distribute water.
The possibilities are endless based on each community’s needs. Our goal is to find the best way to make safe water easily available. We work closely with each community to make sure all needs are being met. Every person and community is unique, so their safe water solution should be too.
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