CHAPEL HILL – A simple, affordable household filtration device can reduce the incidence of diarrhea, one of the leading causes of disease and death in developing countries, by up to 40 percent, ...

The Hydraid BioSand Filter from Grand Rapids-based Triple Quest has been validated in a new survey of Honduran households. The new research, conducted in August by members of Hydraid's field ...

ACCESS to clean water and good sanitation has long been a cry of every community, urban or rural. In an effort to enable more people access safe drinking water, simple water technology inventions have ...

Grand Rapids-based Triple Quest, the international distributor of the Hydraid BioSand water filter, announced the United States Navy's delivery of 150 Hydraid water filters and a fully equipped mobile ...

The instructions for the wooden mold that would eventually become a concrete BioSand Filter were 60 pages long and full of diagrams and charts. They were complex and, at times, a bit unclear. The ...

Rod (left, holding child) and Ingrid (far right) McCarroll of Alberta, shown here in central Mexico, have traveled the world helping to bring a cheap and effective water filtration system to many ...

Low-cost biological sand (biosand) filters can help provide safe drinking water to people in rural and peri-urban areas in developing countries, who are being forced to drink contaminated water due to ...

Water is said to be life. This is because everyone needs safe water for drinking, cooking, and simply for keeping him or herself clean on a daily basis. It is for this reason that the United Nations ...

Residents of Ituni can now have access to treated water following yesterday’s launch of the “Ituni Bio-Sand Filter” by the Guyana Water Incorporated. Yesterday’s launch was the beginning of a special ...

The new filter weighs about 15 pounds, compared to about 300 pounds for the concrete filters. “We didn’t use the lightweight filters in our research,” Sobsey said, “but we’re happy to know companies ...