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Ron, I am so glad to see that you will be at the UNICEF meeting in New York on May the first. I have wanted to meet you for along time now.
I hope you are the top innovation in the changmakers competition you have worked hard for many years and have achieved so much, and helped so many with your Filter.
Look forward to seeing you.
Cordially,
Charles Veach
Sr. Director
World Health Alliance International.
"Purifying the world one drop at a time"
For sure, the US Embassy in Moldova has lost it’s interest in implementing this project.
We are very interested in partnering with a local established pottery producer in Republic of Moldova. Good luck!
Petru Botnaru
Good work, the idea is an ancient concept that can still be effective.
Best
Edwin
Hi Ron,
It seems like your initiative is both sustainable and has had a significant impact on communities globally. I am very interested in the web-based mechanism by which you provide feasibility support, technical assistance, and other information. Could you elaborate on this aspect of Potters for Peace?
Thanks!
Samit Shah
Samit…good to hear from you.
To offer you an example of how we offer Technical Assistance over the internet:
Yesterday morning we got an e-mail from a new group in Peru who learned to make the filters over the internet (without in-house training from PFP) but had problems with filtration rates. We asked for precise explanations and pictures of the problem, they sent them and we were able to identify what the problem was and offered alternatives to resolving it in a matter of minutes.
We share equipment diagrams, photos, videos, studies, production manuals, hygiene promotional material, Flip charts, Posters and Power Point Presentations in Spanish and English, share supplier addresses , filter instructional material in English, French, Spanish, Swahili , Portuguese and Arabic.
We offer draft project presentations to our partners so they can use as a model to then send out to potential funders of their project, we offer referrals to others when the topic requires more input or expertise and can help set up visits to the existing filter workshops.
We can even send some possible filter t-shirt designs and posters.
The bottom line is, if there are more sustainable filter production facilities producing more filters, promoting their use and selling them with hygiene education, there will be more families with potable water and maybe we could meet the US MDG for potable water, worldwide.
We share the information with private enterprise, Universities, churches, research institutes, local and international NGO’s , other filter producers, UN and World Bank, Appropriate Technology enthusiasts around the world and even the US Army Corps of Engineers.
Peace
Ron
PS… I forgot to mention, we offer all the above for FREE and accept donations and periodic consultancy work to fund our work.
Ron Rivera
International Coordinator
Ceramic Water Filter Program
Potters For Peace www.pottersforpeace.org
Managua, Nicaragua
tel: 505 277 3807
pottersforpeace@yahoo.com
PFP is a Member of The
Hi Ron,
Interesting title..
I've noticed that your signature innovation is the Ceramic Weapons of Mass Bacterial Destruction: produced locally to help make water potable at the household level, worldwide.
Relate to the comment from Brian of Water Washer, I'd like to ask whether you have the laboratory analysis result regarding the coliform concentration of the water.
I have no chance yet to meet Peter Bleecke buut will try to arrange it next week.
regards,
yuyun
Hi and thank you for your response:
You can see some of the testing at :
http://s189535770.onlinehome.us/pottersforpeace/?page_id=25
and if you e-mail me I could send you another document with the breakdown of the bacteria and amount spiked at the laboratory for the testing. Feel free to write the authors of the studies.
Peace
Ron Rivera
International Coordinator
Ceramic Water Filter Program
Potters For Peace www.pottersforpeace.org
Managua, Nicaragua
tel: 505 277 3807
pottersforpeace@yahoo.com
Member :http://www.who.int/household_water/en/
Hi Ron,
Very interesting...I didn't pick up from the video the method your products use to kill or eliminate pathogens...can you let me know? Are you aware of http://www.silver-colloids.com/Reports/reports.html and its low cost potential for such efforts? Also, have you read about the Water Straw... http://www.gizmag.com/go/4418/
Thank you,
Brian
Brian
Good to hear from you. To answer your question:. The ceramic filter has two lines of defense the first being the pore size of the filtering elements that are from 6 micros down to 1 micron or less. The bacteria cannot go through them. The second line of defense is the colloidal silver in the walls of the filter that inactivate the electric charges of the bacteria. If you write me I can send you the official CDC write up on the Filter and an 80 page mathematical model prepared by the University of Colorado on how the filter works. More studies are found on our web site.
The CS that mentioned at http://www.silver-colloids.com/Reports/reports.html is really directed toward human consumption. The CS we use is of industrial quality and is much stronger but the silver stays in the pores and is not released into the filtered water.
As for the Life Straw, it’s an amazing breakthrough, I hope it can me produced and distributed world wide at a low low price ASAP so I can go back to being a potter again (smile).
Peace
Ron Rivera
International Coordinator
Ceramic Water Filter Program
Potters For Peace www.pottersforpeace.org
Managua, Nicaragua
tel: 505 277 3807
pottersforpeace@yahoo.com
PFP is a Member of The International Network to Promote H
Hi Ron--
Have you looked through the various "competitors?" I know there is at least one other participant who is promoting the benefits of silver-colloids and there are multiple folks who are working on different designs for pottery filtration units...some of those designs are very attractive.
Sorry, don't think you get to go back and "just be a potter" (ha).
Thanks for all your contributions and best wishes.
Brian
Hello Ron,
Creative title! Its great that you have so many partners and as especially trying to reach out to Universities. I like the fact that you are working to make your technology available in an open-source format so that others can start up similar production.
It seems as though you have a very small staff for all the work that you are doing. Is there anyway that you could train and employ locals to assist you with achieving your goals?
Thanks for updating your bio section.
Dana Frasz
Changemakers
Greetings and thank you for your comments. In fact, when establishing filter production facilities PFP recommends that the local partners contract employees (when possible) of other filter factories in other countries to participate also. This has happened in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Unfortunately getting entrance Visas have been impossible in the case of Ecuadorians to Nicaragua and Indians to Ghana.
We have also been lucky to be able to have interchanges between the Kenya factory owner and the Nicaragua factory, a Partner from Nigeria visited the factory in Ghana, The Bali and Sri Lankan partner visited the Cambodian factories, the Colombian partner visited the factory in Nicaragua, so did the partner from the Dominican Republic and the partner from Cuba.
To date the equipment to produce the filter (molds and presses) can be ordered from private workshops in Holland, Cambodia, Ghana, Nicaragua, and Kenya and soon in Benin. Or you can download the plans and have a professional mechanic make one for you locally.
As for more trainers we are presently a team of 6 trainers, most are volunteers and the local partners in each country pays them (on a sliding scale) for the 3-4 week training , besides also paying for lodging ,meals, translator when necessary and r/t flight to the partners country.
I hope I have answered your questions.
Peace
Ron Rivera
International Coordinator
Ceramic Water Filter Program
Potters For Peace www.pottersforpeace.org
Managua, Nicaragua
tel: 505 277 3807
pottersforpeace@yahoo.com