Polluted Drinking Water Supplies: Beyond Flint
Technology for today’s water challenges
“My children’s lives have been changed forever because the government believed we have no right to clean water,” said Nakiya Wakes of Flint, Michigan. “We drank what we had, which turned out to be deadly and damaging to so many people.” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
When governments here and abroad fail to provide their citizens with access to clean water, a fundamental human right, local municipalities and humanitarian and non-profit organizations can fill in the gap. Be a part of the solution, minimize suffering and provide immediate access to drinking, bathing, food preparation and cooking water with HydroVolt water purifiers.
Did you know ANSA provided free water for Flint residents? In February 2016, Representatives of ANSA Technologies were on the ground in Flint, purifying water for residents with the HydroVolt SQN and AQS Reverse Osmosis purification systems.
Skepticism Endures
For years, the primary solution to Flint’s water crisis was bottled water, a costly and wasteful solution. Michigan stopped distributing cases of bottled water over a year ago, much to the frustration of residents who still rely on it.
Michigan Radio NPR explains, “Despite assurances from government officials and outside experts, many of Flint’s residents will not drink the water. Their skepticism isn’t without justification.
When the crisis began, state and federal officials repeatedly denied that there was any issue with the water, despite clear evidence that there was. Later, officials manipulated test results, downplayed the problem, and lied to residents.”
There are people still waiting at this very moment for their lead pipes to be replaced. Can you imagine being unsure of your drink, your shower, your sink for over five years?
While lead pipe repair continues, why waste time, money and resources with bottled water? Make pure drinking water on-site at the point of use. Process any water source through an EVERYWHERE WATER purifier/desalinator and instantly share up to 99.99% pure drinking water at an operating cost hundreds of times lower than bottled water!
Not just Flint
Of course, other US cities are suffering from contaminated water due to governmental negligence, including Newark, New Jersey.
Also, bottled water is not the only faulty form of a bandage on the problem. Sink filters are another unreliable short-term solution.
An ABC News headline states, Newark handing out bottled water as filters appear to fail to protect residents from lead.
“More than eight months after officials in Newark, New Jersey, began handing out nearly 40,000 filters to help protect residents from elevated levels of lead, tests…showed that elevated lead levels in the water remained.”
According to The Guardian, “The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ordered Newark to give its residents bottled water after the city discovered that water filters it distributed last year may not be working.”
The article cites Newark resident Kelvin Watts who had been using the filters: “I don’t know how long we’ve been dealing with this lead. It’s crazy. It’s terrible, because that means you’ve got lead in your system and you thought you were being safe, but it wasn’t. It was unhealthy.”
Imagine how much harm could have been and will be avoided with the presence of the HydroVolt SQN™ water purifier and desalinator, the best alternative to get high volumes of pure drinking water at very low operating costs.
The system delivers pure drinking water at hundreds of times lower cost than bottled water. HydroVolt SQN is capable of providing 5,000 gallons of 99.99% pure drinking water per day from fresh water sources for about 1 cent per gallon operating cost.
Sink Filtered Water May Not Be Pure Water
University of Michigan professor Nancy Love, in a Frontline article, points out another important problem with providing sink filters, which can harbor bacteria. “Emphasizing filters as the only barrier between safe and unsafe water pushes all maintenance and treatment responsibility onto residents.”
Be a part of the solution, providing instilling confidence in water quality and quantity and offering the HIGHEST OVERALL QUALITY with LOWEST OPERATING COSTS.
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