Safe Drinking Water to developing countries and remote ... - ICWT

Safe drinking water for
developing countries and remote
sites around the world:
From acknowledging the crisis to
manufacturing the products that
will make a difference

Staggering Statistics About the
World Water Crisis
• 884 million people in the world do not have
access to safe drinking water*
• 3.575 million people die each year from waterrelated
disease*
• 43% of water-related disease are due to
diarrhea*
• 84% of water-related deaths are in children
ages 0-14*
• 98% of water-related deaths occur in the
developing world*
*www.water.org

More…
• At any given time, half of
the worlds hospital beds
are occupied by patients
suffering from a water
related disease.*
• Every 15 seconds a child
dies from a water-related
disease.*
• 1.4 million children die as
a result of diarrhea each
year.*
*www.water.org

The Global Crisis: Limited or No
Access to Safe drinking Water
• Many developing countries
have limited or no access to
safe drinking water.
• Power, which is often needed
to facilitate large-scale water
treatment, is many times not
available.
• Population increases will only
escalate the problem.

Research and Development
of Solutions
• Many dedicated groups are
working with people all around the
world to find solutions.
• Drilling wells, digging wells,
choosing the best water supplies,
installing filters, teaching locals to
make water filters, disinfection
with chlorine bleach or tablets,
capturing rain water, etc.
• Some organizations have built
water plants for entire
communities. High O&M costs of
these systems often leave them in
disrepair and some are no longer
used after the sponsors leave or
monies are depleted.

Even with these solutions , is the
water bacteriologically safe to drink
• Shallow wells are mostly GWUDI, groundwater under the direct influence of
surface water, and are bacteriologically unsafe.
• Most alternative filtration devices are lacking in efficiencies, quality and
quantity.
• Disinfection with UV - for UV to be effective the water must be clear for the
UV rays to penetrate the water to inactivate the pathogens (disease causing
organisms).
• Disinfection with chlorine bleach or tablets is probably the most common
type of disinfection around the world. With proper contact time and under
certain circumstances, it can be effective.
• In Haiti, where I was a few months ago setting up a Sunspring, the locals in
the Jalousie Slum or Porta Prince, carried mints with them. When they had
to drink a glass of dirty water, they put a mint in their mouth first to
improve the taste.

Historically
• Simple technology has been used and the end result has
been inadequate water treatment at quantities too low
to make a difference.
• In addition, often the inferior technology has left the
water cleaner but not necessarily bacteriologically safe
to drink.
• Some significant NGOs and mission groups have spent
large sums of money on water treatment plants that are
very energy consumptive, with multi-stage filtration and
disinfection systems, but often they still cannot say that
every drop of water that comes through the plant is
bacteriologically safe to drink.

The Opportunity
• We realized the need to develop a system that
would meet the following design criteria:
– Quality effluent is bacteriologically safe to drink
– Quantity is enough for effluent for small villages and
communities
– Low consumables and long component life (5-10 year)
– Alternative energy, efficient components
– Secure, vandal resistant, lockable
– State of the art technology for worldwide deployment,
yet simple enough to teach locals to operate and
maintain

After 2.5 years of R&D we launched
the SUNSPRING
• The Sunspring is a portable,
self contained, solar powered,
microbiological water purifier
capable of treating up to 5000
gallons of water safe drinking
water per day. The raw water
source can be from deep wells,
shallow wells, lakes, ponds,
rivers, creeks, captured
rainwater, etc.

SUNSPRING
The Sunspring accomplishes all of our identified design
criteria plus additional features & benefits.
Water Quality is assured through a process called physical
exclusion, the .02 micron pore size of our membrane
modules physically filters out the bacteria, virus and cysts
from the finished water. If the water is going to storage or
a large distribution system we can add a hypo chlorinator
(requires no power).
Water Quantity is accomplished by sizing the components so
that the system can operate as much as 24 hours a day
(with significant sunlight) and create up to 5000 gallons per
day of safe drinking water. Typical output will be 2000-
4000 gallons per day.
Low consumables, the pre-filter is a 25 micron pleated paper
pre-filter that can be removed and washed out and reused
several times before it has to be replaced.
Alternative energy, the Sunspring is totally Solar powered
and system components are designed to be energy
efficient.
The aluminum diamond plate enclosure, is light weight,
tough, vandal resistant and is lockable. The Solar
modules are purposely designed on top of the Sunspring,
which makes them as secure as possible.
The Sunspring is an ideal integration of “State of the Art”
water, energy and manufacturing technologies, which
provide a solution for safe drinking water to the world.

Manufacturing at IWT, Rocky Ford,
Colorado
• IWT has a 24,000 sq.ft. manufacturing
facility with capabilities of producing
up to 100 Sunspring units per
month.
• The Sunspring weighs about 600 lbs,
and total shipping weight of 900 lbs
(crate=300 lbs).
• The tools and components required to
perform the installation are supplied
(except materials for the 3’ by 3’
concrete pad). It takes about 2-3
hours to field assemble, disinfect and
commission the Sunspring.
• In about 3 hours, bacteriologically safe
drinking water will be ready to provide
to an entire village or community.

Sunspring
• Currently IWT Sunspring units have
been installed in 5 Countries; the USA,
Mexico, Haiti, India, and in the
Democratic Republic of Congo. We
currently have interest from regions all
around the world.
• Developing Markets:
– Developing countries - orphanages,
schools, hospitals
– Mission groups and NGOs
– Concerned governments
– Military in-house and response
applications
– State parks, national parks, USFS, local
parks
– Emergency response, disaster
preparedness
– Off grid camps, campgrounds, cottages
– Work camps, oil and gas fields, mining
industry

At IWT, we are committed to researching and
developing real water solutions for safe drinking
water – we want to make a difference.
• So how much does it cost to supply a remote village with bacteriologically
safe drinking water
• Sunspring price of $24,550.00 (single unit MSRP)
– Based on 5 years life, estimated life is over 10 years.
– Based on 2500 gallons per day (9463 liters per day), the Sunspring is rated at
up to 5000 gallons per day (18925 liters per day).
– Based on spending $1000 a year on maintenance, we estimated to be less than
$200.
– Using these conservative numbers the Sunspring will produce 4,562,500
gallons of water in a 5 year period and you will spend $29,550.00
– This is .6 cents a gallon or .16 cents per liter
Innovative Water Technologies, INC.
Jack E. Barker/President
P.O. Box 410, 48 Mill Creek Road
Dumont, Colorado 80436 USA
Cell 719-469-6807
Toll Free 877-567-9310

Thank You
Innovative Water Technologies, Inc.
www.Innovativeh2o.com
Saving lives globally,
one SUNSPRING at a time.