SkyHydrant Water Filtration
Equals Safe Water to Areas in Need
Siemens provides membrane technology for 300 SkyHydrant water filtration
system installations worldwide to areas in need of safe drinking water.
Low maintenance, simple operation and high efficiency SkyHydrant water
filtration units convert contaminated water into clean, potable water
that exceeds the World Health Organization’s (WHO) requirements
for potable water. Siemens Water Technologies is working with the SkyJuice
Foundation of Sydney, Australia, a not for profit charitable organization,
to provide a reliable source of clean drinking water to communities without
a safe water supply. Siemens supplies low-pressure membrane technology
for the SkyJuice Foundation’s SkyHydrant water filtration unit.
So far, over 300 systems have been installed worldwide, including a recent
installation in the rural village of Obambo-Kadenge in Kenya, Africa,
also a target under the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals.
SkyJuice is a global assistance partner providing access to reliable and
safe drinking water to meet the real needs of developing nations and in
disaster relief applications.
Siemens Water Technologies delivers cost effective, reliable water and
wastewater treatment systems and services worldwide.
This Kenyan child is happy
to now have clean water all the time. The SkyHydrant solution
guarantees a permanent water supply at minimal costs.
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The World Health Organization estimates that about 1.2 billion people
worldwide lack access to clean drinking water. Two million people a year,
many of them children and the elderly, die from preventable waterborne
diseases.
Designed for affordable community water supply and disaster relief applications,
the SkyHydrant unit is compact and portable with a robust design. The
technology is based on chlorine disinfection combined with a self-contained
Memcor low-pressure membrane filtration system from Siemens that operates
under minimal feed pressure without the need for power and conditioning
chemicals. The SkyHydrant removes particulates, bacteria, protozoa and
other pathogenic material greater than 0.1 micron, and produces a minimum
of 10,000 litres per day of potable water. The self-cleaning unit can
be easily transported, installed and operated with minimal training and
operator interface. The treated water should be chlorinated to ensure
protection against post-treatment contamination. SkyHydrants have been
commissioned in 16 countries over four continents, such as in Sri Lanka,
Pakistan, and Indonesia. Besides the Kenya installation, other SkyHydrant
units recently installed in 2007 include: Yogyakarta and Jakarta, Indonesia;
the San Jose de Los Molinos District in Peru; and Nagigi Village in Savusavu,
Fiji.
“The SkyHydrant unit, incorporating the robust Memcor membrane technology,
is a sustainable solution for supplying clean water to communities in
the developing world,” says Rhett Butler, Business Development Manager
for the Memcor product line at Siemens Water Technologies in Australia,
and chairman of the SkyJuice Foundation. “The technology is affordable
for even the poorest communities, but even more important, it is helping
to save lives.” As an example, a safe water kiosk containing four
SkyHydrant units was installed in March 2007 in the rural village of Obambo-Kadenge
in Kenya. Before the kiosk was installed, the village of several thousand
residents relied mostly on runoff water collected in the shallow Gona
Dam. This highly turbid water was contaminated by human activity and livestock
waste. With no running water or power and virtually no sanitation, outbreaks
of water-borne diseases like cholera, typhoid and dysentery were common.
The kiosk contains the SkyHydrant units, a pump powered by a small windmill,
a header tank, a clean water storage tank and a tap stand. The kiosk is
supplying approximately 2,200 litres per hour of potable water for less
than 0.2 Euro per person per year. The water turbidity is reduced from
400 NTU to less than 0.1 NTU, and the community is already benefiting
from the kiosk in improved health and prosperity. “Our successful
projects illustrate how SkyJuice and Siemens Water Technologies, working
with other community organizations, are helping to improve the health
and well-being of communities throughout the world,” said Butler.
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