Rotary Club Provides Clean Water to Haiti
Members of
the Bartlesville (Monday Noon) Rotary Club are helping residents of
Haiti with water-treatment kits capable to providing the equivalent
of more than 100,000 16-oz bottles of fresh water.
The
aid is part of an effort by Rotary clubs all over the world to
provide life-giving essentials and medical aid to the
earthquake-ravaged island nation. The Bartlesville Rotary Club, with
approximately 160 members, is working through the Medical Supplies
Network of Tulsa, a Rotary-run humanitarian organization, to have
the PUR Waterboxes delivered.
Bartlesville Rotary Club members have purchased 21 of the kits, each
costing $150. To date, the Medical Supplies Network has provided a
total of 200 of the water treatment kits, and contributions continue
to flow in from clubs throughout the region and from the general
public.
The Waterbox technology, which has been proven
effective in disaster areas throughout the globe, weighs only 2 ½
pounds per kit yet can generate 5072 pounds of water at the site
where it is needed. The boxes are being delivered to Haiti by FedEx
and the U.S. military free of charge.
The key element of the Waterbox is the PuR process,
a point-of-use technology developed by Proctor & Gamble that
purifies water through a combined process of disinfection with
calcium hypochlorite and flocculation with iron sulfate. PuR’s
four-gram powder sachets use the same technology utilized by
municipal water treatment facilities