Impact, 2007 James A. Marusek
Water is essential to sustain human life. In many types of disasters, access to clean drinking water may become a problem. Often times ground water sources and tap water sources will become polluted, which can lead to sickness, disease, and the potential for epidemics.
During a crisis, the ability to treat water can sometimes mean the difference between life and death. Individuals can only survive for approximately 3 days without clean drinking water. Although water filtration systems are sold that can biologically filter water at the individual and family level, filtration systems providing the pure drinking water requirements for a small community are very limited.
Ceramic water filters are expensive and few members of our society will have the foresight to
purchase one. I felt there has to be a better means to filter drinking water in an emergency. I visited my
local plumbing supply store and designed & constructed a high volume Gravity Feed Water Treatment
System. This system is designed to filter 100,000 gallons of biologically contaminated ground water
from rivers, streams, ponds, lakes, rainwater runoff, or biologically contaminated tap water converting it
into drinking water at a rate of approximately 130 gallons per hour during a crisis, enough water for a
small town.