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Paying too much for purity? Development of more appropriate emergency water treatment methods
conference contribution
posted on 2018-02-12, 15:09 authored by Richard LuffThe provision of an adequate water supply in the early stages of a rapid onset crisis often requires use of contaminated
surface water where normal supplies are disrupted or are not available. In these situations people affected are invariably
without basic services for a period of time and often denied any say in the type of “emergency assistance” that are
provided for them. This creates an environment in which accountability for the choice of assistance provided is minimal.
Some organisations place a premium upon providing Mobile Package Water Treatment Systems (MPWTS), which may cost
substantial amounts of money, often do not cope with high suspended solids loading and are very dependent on imported
technology and personnel. In order to challenge the assumptions made by commercial companies who developed these
units, Oxfam in collaboration with the University of Surrey, set out to develop its own water treatment options that would
be more closely aligned with peoples needs.
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- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
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- Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)
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LUFF, R., 2004. Paying too much for purity? Development of more appropriate emergency water treatment methods. IN: Godfrey, S. (ed). People-centred approaches to water and environmental sanitation: Proceedings of the 30th WEDC International Conference, Vientiane, Laos, 25-29 October 2004, pp. 582-585.Publisher
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