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History and design philosophy

The drastic shortage of potable water in Southern Africa’s rural communities was highlighted in the Community Water Supply and Sanitation (CWSS) White Paper, presented in the South African Parliament by Prof. Kader Asmal, Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry, in November 1994.

In 1995, we started development of a water treatment plant that, with the CWSS requirements in mind, could meet 3 fundamental criteria:
• it had to be easy to operate, maintain and sustain in rural areas
• it had to be affordable to the poorest of communities that needed it most
• it had to have scope for community involvement

The emphasis of our design is one of appropriateness to the end user’s technical capability.
This concept is different to the conventional design methodologies that have been adopted previously.

The need to treat water for drinking or process purposes has now become of relevance to organisations and businesses that have no affinity with the water supply industry, such as small communities, schools, holiday resorts. In industry, this can be extended to dairies, abattoirs, textile mills, tanneries, electroplating facilities, laundries etc.

Our approach has been to build water and effluent treatment plants that deliver results while being really affordable and really simple to operate. Conventionally, water treatment plants have always been evaluated on purely technical criteria and never on affordability or simplicity. Consequently, our design criteria is unconventional and appropriate to the end user’s business requirement and / or skill level.

This makes our plants attractive to end users who would not normally have considered in-house water treatment because it was outside their core activity. The large investment of capital (in a conventional plant) and skilled staff would not have been worthwhile because of the small water requirement.

Even though governements and aid agencies are providing water treatment in many instances the total number of people without access to safe drinking water increases by the day.

The worldmeters real time website gives an indication of how this is growing (scroll down to water for the facts) http://www.worldometers.info/

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