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Portable Water Purification Systems Clean up Contaminated Water

9th March, 2010 - Posted by health news - No Comments

Folks who are emergency responders know that the most important problem they frequently experience is the shortage of clean water they need when responding to a disaster call. As they pull into areas where serious storms or other accidents have struck, they find folk who are literally dying of thirst, covered with filth, and desperate for water resources that are safe and free from pollutants. These situations are the reasons why a number of firms have developed mobile water purification systems that are capable of disinfecting huge amounts of any type of water and making it safe for human consumption.

Following a disaster, city water systems have frequently been destroyed. Folks can’t just turn on a tap to get all the water they need to keep life on an even keel. In addition, search and rescue teams are regularly brought in to go looking for survivors, and they also need drinking water as well as water to wash away the mud and contaminants they’re working in all day. Shortage of water only makes a bad situation that worse. Almost all of us have no conception of what it might be like if our sources of clean water nearly dried up, but the lack of water is one of the most dire emergencies folk can face.

With a mobile water purification system, workers can bring in the hardware to supply huge quantities of water. For instance, the system designed by Ecosphere can purify 72,000 gallons of water per day to be used for drinking, cooking, showering, and cleaning. This system can be mounted on a wagon for simple portability, and it’s capable of treating virtually any water source. Using a multi-stage purification process, this technology will remove animal and human byproducts, biological pathogens, industrial wastes, and other contaminants from the water leaving it clean enough for human use.

Many water purification systems are engineered to run off solar energy. Since disaster eventualities regularly involve power outages, having water purification that runs off the sun’s power can be a real advantage. These are the types of units that the U.S. Military has sent overseas to be used by troops in third world countries where there is an issue with unhealthy water. The units are built to be self-contained, rugged, and portable, and they can convert saline, brackish, or contaminated water into safe, water at a rate of about 30,000 gallons a day. These mobile drinking water trailers can literally save lives.