Current projects
Our projects incubate small-scale water techniques and initiate networks that have strong potential to increase access to water for the poor.
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Sujol
Since hand pumps were installed to supply the population with drinking water, some 77 million people in Bangladesh have been exposed to contaminated groundwater, with 10 million drinking highly toxic water every day. A water treatment plant using proven techniques incubated by EMF is now being built to remove the arsenic and salinity from the water.
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Water Schools Program Since 2010 the ‘Water Schools’ program - a joint initiative of EMF and the Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC) - has promoted sustainable clean water and sanitation facilities in faith-related schools. Access to clean water and sanitation facilities and proper hygiene will lead to a reduction in water-related school absenteeism and, in the long run, to a community-wide reduction in water-borne disease. EMF continues to support the program by providing the Water Schools with access to its network of innovators and portfolio of techniques.
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Voltea In 2006 EMF joined the Voltea team, a Unilever Venture based company, which was working on a new desalination technology, now known as Capacitive deionization (CapD-I). The CapD-I technology, invented by Marc Andelman in the USA, is removes ions (i.e. dissolved salts such as sodium, calcium, chlorine, nitrate and arsenic) from a variety of water sources ranging from tap to brackish ground water. The technology uses little electricity, has high water recovery a nd does not need any chemical regeneration. In 2012 Voltea is set to enter the market place in Europe and USA for industrial and commercial applications and in Asia for village use, as in Bangladesh.
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Daoist Ecology Temple Project
Through its partnership with the Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC), the Ecological Management Foundation (EMF) has become involved in a program linking the renewal of the Daoist temple presence in China with the setting up and funding of educational ecology centres at the temples.
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On May 12th the first Sujol plant was opened officially. This plant produces 200 liters an hours. The water quality is within Bangladeshi standards. The plant reduces Salinity up till 97% and Arsenic from 370 ppm to 30 ppm. Sujol water taste nearly as good as mineral water and beats the taste of water treated by comparable alternatives easily.
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