People who are emergency responders know that the biggest problem they often experience is the lack of clean water they need when answering a disaster call. As they pull into areas where serious storms or other calamities have struck, they find people who are literally dying of thirst, covered with filth, and desperate for water resources that are safe and free from contaminants. These situations are the reasons why a number of companies have developed mobile water purification systems that are capable of disinfecting massive amounts of any type of water and making it safe for human consumption.
Following a disaster, municipal water systems have often been destroyed. People can no longer just turn on a faucet to get all the water they need to keep life on an even keel. In addition, search and rescue teams are often brought in to search for survivors, and they also need drinking water as well as water to clean away the mud and contaminants they’re working in all day. Lack of water only makes a bad situation that much worse. Most of us have no conception of what it would be like if our sources of clean water virtually dried up, but the lack of water is one of the most dire emergencies people can face.
With a mobile water purification system, workers can bring in the equipment to produce huge quantities of water. For example, the system designed by Ecosphere can purify 72,000 gallons of water per day to be used for drinking, cooking, bathing, and cleaning. This system can be mounted on a truck for easy portability, and it’s capable of treating almost any water source. Using a multi-stage purification process, this technology will remove animal and human byproducts, biological pathogens, industrial wastes, and other pollutants from the water leaving it clean enough for human use.
Many water purification systems are designed to run off of solar energy. Since disaster situations often 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 a problem with unsanitary water. The units are designed to be self-contained, rugged, and portable, and they can convert saline, brackish, or contaminated water into safe, fresh water at a rate of about 30,000 gallons a day. These mobile drinking water trailers can literally save lives.
Kristie Brown
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