Working for Pure Home Water
Public Service Fellow Thomas Hay (’10, Course 3) traveled to Northern Ghana to work with Pure Home Water, a non-profit organization that manufactures ceramic pot filters for home use. Thomas and Mary are pressing the ceramic filter using the Potters for Peace Press, which would later be replaced with a new press Thomas helped to design and build. Tom also documented the factory production process, oversaw quality control, and refined the filter.
Photo Courtesy : Leah Nation
This entry was posted on Thursday, January 20th, 2011 at 11:38 am. It is filed under International, Water and Sanitation and tagged with Africa, ceramic pot filters, Fellowships, Ghana, rural communities.
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What a innovative and economically feasible way to bring clean water to those who so badly need it. With waterborne deaths and diseases on the rise in “Third World” countries your work can hopefully reduce these deaths to relatively acceptable levels. Keep pushing!
There are all kinds of disease that linger in unclean water. It’s sad how we use and waste water and food when there are people in other Countries dying because they can’t get food or clean drinking water. This filter is saving lives and preventing disease.