When there’s a flood, one of the biggest issues is the spread of disease through contaminated drinking water. Essentially sewage and drainage water gets into the drinking water supply, introducing some particularly nasty types of bacteria. The safe drinking water eco gadget uses the process of reverse osmosis to extract clean drinking water from contaminated water.
There are lots of ways to sterilise dirty water, such filtration, distillation, and through using chemicals. However, this flood rescue bottles designed by Ceren Bagatar are extremely easy to use, as well as being relatively low cost (around $20 to $50 per unit). Using a highly concentrated dioralyte solution that contains basic nutrients, the bottle is able to provide 15 portions of 500ml (7.5 litres) of safe drinking water per refill.
The bottles are also fitted with removable mouthpieces, where you have one mouthpiece per person. The mouthpieces encourage basic hygiene as another technique of limiting the spread of diseases.
Since there’s usually plenty of water in a flooded area, there doesn’t need to be any infrastructure to get clean water to a flood hit area. The units require no additional energy or equipment, meaning it’s a very effective technique for delivering clean drinking water in a short space of time. If the Flood Rescue Bottles are not already in the flood-hit area, they can easily be flown in by helicopter or shipped in on small boats.
Source: YankoDesign