Purifying Water With Sunlight
World Health Organization reports that water can be purified using sunlight and plastic bottles reducing deaths from unsafe drinking water in developing countries.
"A do-it-yourself technique of disinfecting water with sunlight and soft-drink bottles could save hundreds of thousands of lives a year, the World Health Organization said Thursday.In a campaign to reduce deaths from unhealthy water in developing countries, the UN health agency is promoting a nearly cost-free process called Solar Water Disinfection, or SODIS. The process is simple: Transparent bottles are filled with water and placed horizontally on a flat surface for about five hours. The heat and ultraviolet rays of the sun kill illness-causing microorganisms in polluted water."
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This is Silco Company "High Sierra Water Reclamation", we need your help bad. We are trying to help Pastor Jim Wilkins in Lake City, Florida who's phone number is 1-386-754-5905 he helps the people in Haiti with their problems, medical and fammin. Silco Company manufactures a water reclamation kit so that people in 3rd world countries can have clean potable drinking water. This is a serious problem because 70% of the people that have to go to the hospitals or clinics are there due to water-born illnesses. Most of them being children and a lot of them dying. The wife or mother of the family's that live in these remote areas do their laundry by sitting in a small stream bed washing their clothing on rocks. They take a container of this water home with them to use for drinking and cooking hints the diseases that fallow. Jim needs all the help he can get because they have to purchase their products from donations. Silco Company is willing to help all we can by selling the products as close to the manufacturing cost as possible. When buying in volume (case lots). We are greatly in need of getting our products to the clinics and churches in their remote townships and areas. Please feel free to contact myself and or Pastor Jim Wilkins. Lets start saving lives now. Thank you! We hope to hear from you soon.
Carl W Cooper
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P.O. Box 608 Dallas, Ga
(770) 443-0466