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| Mr John Griffith, the Inventor from the Safe Water Trust, a non-governmental organisation based in England, demonstrating how the filter is used |
RURAL dwellers in the country will get good and safe drinking water with the help of a new technology that will filter water from their rivers, streams, ponds and lakes.
Known as the aquafilter, the equipment has been designed and developed to meet the needs of people who lack clean water especially in deprived communities.
It is said to remove about 99.9 per cent of bacteria from unclean waters during filtering to prevent consumers from contracting diseases such as cholera, diarrhoea, typhoid, dysentery and any other sickness.
Speaking at a press conference to introduce the equipment onto the Ghanaian market, the inventor from the Safe Water Trust (a non-governmental organisation based in England), Mr John Griffith, said more than 3,000 of the filters were being used in the Gambia, Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda and DR Congo, among other countries as well as on pilot basis in some parts of the country.
According to him, two units of the filter had been developed - the aquafilter community for large populations including schools, communities, clinics and villages and the aquafilter family for household use.
He said the filter had been developed using hollow fibre ultra-filtration membrane which would hold back dirt, bacteria and virus, adding that the filter would provide five litres of drinking water per minute.
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