Ceramic Water Filter Cambodia

August 2007 field note the water and sanitation program.

Ceramic water filter cambodia. The filter is flowerpot shaped holds about 8 10 liters of water and sits inside a plastic or ceramic receptacle. The filters are distributed and marketed. Clean drinking water for all of southeast asia. Ceramic water filters provide affordable high quality drinking water at a household or classroom level for communities who are otherwise without access to safe drinking water.

Use of ceramic water filters in cambodia ceramic filter pilot projects 2002 2006 in cambodia have yielded promising results that suggest these interventions can be effective in improving drinking water quality and can contribute to substantial health gains in populations using them. The ceramic filter is a clay pot that holds approximately 10 litres allowing a family to produce up to 30 litres a day. Boiling this water takes time from other productive activities often for women 6. To use the ceramic filters families fill the top receptacle or the ceramic filter itself with water which flows through the ceramic filter or filters into a storage receptacle.

It is cheap portable effective and can be used and maintained even by the poorest families lerman says. Rdic s operation started at a small scale as it developed its manufacturing techniques. Water filter use to sieve adsorption ion exchanges and other processes to remove unwanted substances from water in cambodia. Ceramic water filtration the ceramic filtration system for a mere 20 us dollars an easy to use filtration system can be constructed and installed using locally available materials.

Over the seven year crediting period water filters will be provided to up to 1 7 million people across a potential 312 000 households. This project will improve access to clean drinking water and reduce emissions by selling affordable ceramic water filters to rural households in cambodia. A ceramic water filter manufacturer in cambodia claims that b y eliminating the need to burn firewood to boil water each filter in circulation saves about 2 tons of firewood each year according to conservative estimates 2. The crc is distributing one ceramic water filter to some 6 000 households in 53 villages.

Resource development international cambodia rdic has been making ceramic water filters in cambodia since 2003.