{"id":2093,"date":"2006-11-01T20:17:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T02:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2093"},"modified":"2006-11-01T20:17:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-02T02:17:00","slug":"re-third-world-water-filtration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/re-third-world-water-filtration\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: Third world water filtration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s more from the Red Cross<\/A>:<\/p>\n

The most recent UNICEF data show that only 26 per cent of Cambodia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rural population has access to adequate drinking water compared to 55 per cent of the rural population living in the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s least developed countries. The situation is particularly bad in four remote and impoverished north-eastern provinces – Kratie, Mondulkiri, Rotanakiri and Stung Teng – where the main sources of drinking water are springs, rivers, streams and rainwater.
\nSlightly more than one-fifth of children under the age of five living in these provinces have diarrhoea in a given two-week period, according to the 2000 Cambodia Demographic and Health Survey. The same survey says more than 50 per cent of under-fives in the north-east have moderately or severely stunted growth, an indication of chronic, incapacitating malnutrition.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The health status of the Cambodian children is grim. Almost one in 10 Cambodian children dies before his or her first birthday,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says Charles Lerman, regional health coordinator of the American Red Cross, which is supporting the CRC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Community Hygiene and Water Purification (CHWP) project, along with the International Development Enterprises and the Freeman Foundation.
\nThe locally produced ceramic water filter is part of the CHWP project, a one-year scheme that concludes in December that aims to reduce childhood illness and death from diarrhoeal disease by providing safe water containers and disseminating health and hygiene messages to communities.
\nThe CRC is distributing one ceramic water filter to some 6,000 households in 53 villages.
\nThe ceramic filter is a clay pot that holds approximately 10 litres, allowing a family to produce up to 30 litres a day. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It is cheap, portable, effective and can be used and maintained even by the poorest families,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Lerman says.
\nThe CWF is impregnated with colloidal silver, which neutralises any pathogens not already captured by a clay matrix through which the water passes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s more from the Red Cross: The most recent UNICEF data show that only 26 per cent of Cambodia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rural population has access to adequate drinking water compared to 55 per cent of the rural population living in the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s least developed countries. The situation is particularly bad in four remote and impoverished north-eastern provinces … Continue reading Re: Third world water filtration<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-xL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}