Triple Quest (www.triplequest.com), global distributor of the Hydraid® BioSand Water Filter, today announced that an extensive field study conducted in rural Cambodia by researchers at the University ...

The new filter weighs about 15 pounds, compared to about 300 pounds for the concrete filters. “We didn’t use the lightweight filters in our research,” Sobsey said, “but we’re happy to know companies ...

A concrete tube, gravel and sand costing $25 help make a filter that can save 50,000 children a year Jalalabad: It's made of concrete, gravel and sand and costs just $25 (Dh92) to make, but the ...

Low-cost biological sand (biosand) filters can help provide safe drinking water to people in rural and peri-urban areas in developing countries, who are being forced to drink contaminated water due to ...

ACCESS to clean water and good sanitation has long been a cry of every community, urban or rural. In an effort to enable more people access safe drinking water, simple water technology inventions have ...

The Biosand Filter is celebrating thirty years of providing clean drinking water to communities in the developing world. The idea of designing a water filtration system small enough to be installed in ...

Water is said to be life. This is because everyone needs safe water for drinking, cooking, and simply for keeping him or herself clean on a daily basis. It is for this reason that the United Nations ...

CHAPEL HILL – A simple, affordable household filtration device can reduce the incidence of diarrhea, one of the leading causes of disease and death in developing countries, by up to 40 percent, ...