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Water: A Crisis in Our Time

Water: A Crisis in Our Time. FACT: 40% of people have no access to clean water FACT: 5 million people die every year from preventable water-related diseases. FACT: Chronic intestinal disease reduces the body’s ability to absorb food, creating ‘malabsorptive hunger.’

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Water: A Crisis in Our Time

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  1. Water: A Crisis in Our Time • FACT: 40% of people have no access to clean water • FACT: 5 million people die every year from preventable water-related diseases. • FACT: Chronic intestinal disease reduces the body’s ability to absorb food, creating ‘malabsorptive hunger.’ • FACT: Scarcity of water has created more refugees than all the wars in history, producing hydrological poverty. • FACT: Future wars will more likely be fought over water than oil. Living Waters for the World

  2. Living Waters for the World Our Mission …providing training and materials to empower churches and other organizations to bring clean water to people where water supplies are polluted. Living Waters for the World

  3. Living Waters for the World Our Niche …working together with partners to purify existing water sources using simple, sustainable and affordable technology, for communities up to 500 people. Living Waters for the World

  4. Living Waters for the World Mission Approach A three-year partnership agreement between U.S.-based church or organization and an international organization (e.g., clinic, school…) 1st trip: survey and partnership development 2nd trip: installation and education 3rd & 4th trips: follow-up and troubleshooting Living Waters for the World

  5. Living Waters for the World Clean Water U. Course Descriptions CWU 101 Learn the fundamentals of team leadership, field survey, water testing, and partnership development CWU 102 Learn the health, hygiene and spiritual curriculum, teach other course participants and finally become capable to lead the training for in-country instructors. CWU 103 Build a fully functioning water purification system from the ground up, culminating in the production of purified water. Living Waters for the World

  6. Hopewell Camp and Conference Center

  7. Dining Hall

  8. Hopewell Church, ca 1850

  9. Types of Water Purification ‘Boards’ • Standard Board: to clean most types of raw water. • Softening Board: Standard Board plus water softening to remove Ca and Mg from hard water. • R.O. Board: Softening Board plus reverse osmosis unit for water that is brackish or that contains metals.

  10. Starting our board • We were divided into four teams, two built Standard boards, one built a Softening board and one built an R.O. board.

  11. Almost Done

  12. Standard Board

  13. Softening Board Water softener Water softener recycler Shallow-well pump

  14. R.O. Board softener reverse osmosis unit

  15. The Process Batch processing • Step One: Filtration • Step Two: Ozonation • Step Three: Use and Transfer Water

  16. Water Source Here, lake water is pumped 40 feet vertically to the raw-water tanks. Solar cells power pump Raw-water tanks

  17. 300 gallons of raw water go through the filtration cycle to storage tank 0.5-micron filter 5-micron filter raw water sediment filter

  18. Clean-water storage tank Overflow pipe

  19. Ozonation cycle From clean-water tank To clean-water tank Ozone churn Ozone generator

  20. Water use and transfer Bottle rinse & fill Bottle disinfectant

  21. Drinking water

  22. Clean Water U. September 2005 Class

  23. Hiking around the camp 2-inch Wolf spider with babies American Beauty-berry Callicarpa americana Lycosa carolinensis

  24. Hiking around the camp Gulf Fritillary Agraulis vanillae Large gilled mushroom

  25. Remnants of Hurricane Rita

  26. Tour of Oxford, Mississippi Ole Miss campus

  27. Tour of Oxford, Mississippi William Faulkner’s Rowan Oak

  28. Oxford, Mississippi – Town Square

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