Many more people around the world now have access to safe drinking water as Korea's technology to supply clean water has been shared with other nations.
Three hundred home-use water purifiers that can eliminate arsenic and provide clean drinking water were delivered to the village of Binh Chau in Vung Tau Province in southern Vietnam on January 17. The supply of water purifiers is part of ongoing efforts to improve environmental conditions and to fine-tune the Korean technology to make it suitable to the situation in targeted countries, finally providing, "environmentally appropriate technology."
Subterranean water in the province is contaminated with arsenic, one of the most dangerous carcinogens, due to geological reasons in the province. However, many residents in the province have been using underground water as drinking water and it has become a threat to their health.
The water purifiers can sanitize water without using electricity, as they are equipped with filters that have arsenic absorbers. This feature was added in consideration of the instable electricity supply in some rural areas. In addition to arsenic, the filters can also process other harmful materials, including microorganisms in the water. They are designed so that they can be maintained just by changing the filter.
The Korea Environmental Industry Technology Institute (KEITI) has been providing environmentally appropriate technology to Vietnam, the Philippines, Cambodia and Indonesia since May 2014. This supply of water purifiers to Vietnam is its first project to bear fruit.
The KEITI has also undertaken the construction of a water purification facility in the state of Iloilo in the Philippines. It will be completed in February and will help the victims of the typhoon Haiyan that hit the province in 2013. The facility is designed to store rain water and to provide drinking water.
The KEITI is also working on a simplified network of waterworks in Cambodia and a waste water processing facility in an industrial complex in and excrement disposal facilities in Indonesia will be completed in late March.
"We intend to establish a system to properly and continuously maintain the water purifiers and other facilities so that the sharing of environmentally appropriate technology does not end up as a one-time solution," said Kim Yong-joo, president of the KEITI.
By Limb Jae-un
Korea.net Staff Writer
Photos courtesy of the KEITI
jun2@korea.kr
Three hundred home-use water purifiers that can eliminate arsenic and provide clean drinking water were delivered to the village of Binh Chau in Vung Tau Province in southern Vietnam on January 17. The supply of water purifiers is part of ongoing efforts to improve environmental conditions and to fine-tune the Korean technology to make it suitable to the situation in targeted countries, finally providing, "environmentally appropriate technology."
Subterranean water in the province is contaminated with arsenic, one of the most dangerous carcinogens, due to geological reasons in the province. However, many residents in the province have been using underground water as drinking water and it has become a threat to their health.
Three hundred home-use water purifiers that can filter out arsenic are delivered to the village of Binh Chau, in Vung Tau Province in southern Vietnam, on January 17.
The water purifiers can sanitize water without using electricity, as they are equipped with filters that have arsenic absorbers. This feature was added in consideration of the instable electricity supply in some rural areas. In addition to arsenic, the filters can also process other harmful materials, including microorganisms in the water. They are designed so that they can be maintained just by changing the filter.
The Korea Environmental Industry Technology Institute (KEITI) has been providing environmentally appropriate technology to Vietnam, the Philippines, Cambodia and Indonesia since May 2014. This supply of water purifiers to Vietnam is its first project to bear fruit.
The KEITI has also undertaken the construction of a water purification facility in the state of Iloilo in the Philippines. It will be completed in February and will help the victims of the typhoon Haiyan that hit the province in 2013. The facility is designed to store rain water and to provide drinking water.
The KEITI is also working on a simplified network of waterworks in Cambodia and a waste water processing facility in an industrial complex in and excrement disposal facilities in Indonesia will be completed in late March.
KEITI officials and a resident of Binh Chau, in Vung Tau Province, drink water from the water purifier provided by the KEITI.
"We intend to establish a system to properly and continuously maintain the water purifiers and other facilities so that the sharing of environmentally appropriate technology does not end up as a one-time solution," said Kim Yong-joo, president of the KEITI.
By Limb Jae-un
Korea.net Staff Writer
Photos courtesy of the KEITI
jun2@korea.kr
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