Ceramic filters taken to the world

Potters Water Action Group is an association of individuals and organisations united in the war against waterborne diseases.

Since 1999, members of the group have been promoting and improving the silver enhanced, ceramic water filter that can be produced almost anywhere in the world using locally obtained materials.

Professor Richard Wukich a Slippery Rock University ceramics professor came up with the idea for filter factories in undeveloped areas of the world. He travels the world in a bid to eliminate the thousands of children dying every day from drinking contaminated water.

Today, unclean water is the biggest extant threat to human health. Over one billion humans do not have access to clean water resulting in the deaths of roughly 5,000 people every day from preventable water-borne illnesses.

The Potters Water Action Group have designed a cheap effective filter designed to help eradicate water borne diseases.  A ceramic bell is made from a blend of local clays and a friable material such as sawdust or rice husks. As the filter is fired to 900 centigrade the friable material burns out leaving micro-pores which filter out any particulate matter in the water. After firing, the filter is impregnated with silver nanoparticles which act as an anti-microbial agent. The filter is housed on top of an easily obtained 19 litre bucket.

For more information about the good work the Potters Water Action Group do then go to their website here.

The Water Filter Company commends the work done by this group.