Clean Water for Bangladesh
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Photo above from news source the Daily Mail. For full story, click here.
Clean Water for Bangladesh is a campaign of the 501(c)(3) non-profit IX Power Foundation to raise funds to send water cleaning machines to Bangladesh.
Why the urgency to help Bangladesh?
Water is the most basic commodity needed for life, yet today 20 million people in parts of Bangladesh are trying to survive on arsenic-laced water - and they are dying a slow, horrible death because of it.
Latest estimates suggest 43,000 people in Bangladesh die each year from arsenic-related diseases. These include skin lesions, cancers, and cardiovascular and lung illnesses.
Some, are not dying so slowly. In parts of Bangladesh where the textile industry is embedded, people work in chemical-laden environments where they wade and immerse themselves in a hellish cockail of deadly soup.
We want to help! And, we need YOUR help
We are starting with the relatively small goal of sending two drinking water treatment systems to Bangladesh. Each system can clean enough water for 1,500 to 3,000 people per day.
Upon successful installation of these first two systems, we will begin another phase of the campaign to build an additional 18 systems for Bangladesh. Once the original 20 are successfully installed, we will endeavor to send even more systems.
We are obtaining the systems at a reduced, "at cost" price of $12,500 for each system. The normal capital equipment cost of each system is $18,628.
Each system can process approximately 90,000 gallons per day; with the installation of one system, a village with 3,409 people could be supplied with clean, arsenic-free water.
The installation of 20 water cleaning systems would allow 68,180 people to have clean, toxin-free water that is safe to drink, cook with, and bathe in.
A discussion on how much water a person needs per day can be found at www.ixpowerfoundation.org. This campaign's goal today is to provide 100 liters per day (26.42 gallons) per person.
The Foundation is working with AOSED for deployment of the water treatment systems in Bangladesh. AOSED is our partner to ensure local residents are also able to properly utilize and maintain the systems.
To learn about the situation in Bangladesh, we suggest you visit the following news sites for videos and stories:
VICE NEWS - Largest mass arsenic poisoning in history is in Bangladesh
VICE NEWS video - Poisoning in Bangladesh
Oman Medical Journal - Arsenic Poisoning in Bangladesh
U.S. News & World Report -20 million Bangladeshis are still being poisoned by arsenic-tainted groundwater
Human Rights Watch - 20 million drink arsenic-laced water
New York Times - Bangladesh Pollution Told in Colors & Smells
Daily Mail - Inside the horrific unregulated sweatshops of Bangladesh (The photo above reveals factories sitting in their own garbage and toxic waste. People live in these factories and in this dangerous pollution. In addition, many Bangladesh communities suffer from naturally-occuring arsenic contamination of their water sources.)
Specifications of the IX Water Blü water treatment systems that we wish to send:
1. The systems remove over 99% of contaminants (e.g., arsenate, hexavalent chromium, selenate).
2. They easily fit into existing water treatment system for removing particles and biologics. (If there is no existing water treatment system already present in the community, we will have to provide additional equipment to set up a complete system.)
3. They are easy to operate and maintain with minimal instruction.
4. The technology for the systems is new and is much more effective and efficient than other previously available systems for removing arsenic and other toxins. The technology was created by a team of scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of Texas, and New Mexico Tech.
5. The IX Water Blü systems we propose sending to Bangladesh has no reject water, unlike reverse osmosis systems, which rejects as much as 90% of the water processed and must be discharged to a sewer system, increasing cost and load on the environment.
6. Another point about the systems we wish to send: The media in the treatment systems is highly durable. Other adsorption media is fragile and requires expensive steam for regeneration. Ion exchange media requires messy on-site backwashing.
7. The systems are also modular and can be easily configured to accomodate any flow level.
8. The systems don't utilize costly additives, and unlike biological degradation and flocculation systems, treat water in real-time.
For more information, on the IX Water Blü systems that will be deployed to Bangladesh, review the first two brochures on this page.
To make a donation of $200 or more, or for more information about collaboration opportunities with the "Clean Water for Bangladesh" initiative, or for other possible campaigns to provide clean water for those in need, please email Deborah Deal or call the IX Power Foundation office in Colorado at [phone redacted].
Clean Water for Bangladesh is a campaign of the 501(c)(3) non-profit IX Power Foundation to raise funds to send water cleaning machines to Bangladesh.
Why the urgency to help Bangladesh?
Water is the most basic commodity needed for life, yet today 20 million people in parts of Bangladesh are trying to survive on arsenic-laced water - and they are dying a slow, horrible death because of it.
Latest estimates suggest 43,000 people in Bangladesh die each year from arsenic-related diseases. These include skin lesions, cancers, and cardiovascular and lung illnesses.
Some, are not dying so slowly. In parts of Bangladesh where the textile industry is embedded, people work in chemical-laden environments where they wade and immerse themselves in a hellish cockail of deadly soup.
We want to help! And, we need YOUR help
We are starting with the relatively small goal of sending two drinking water treatment systems to Bangladesh. Each system can clean enough water for 1,500 to 3,000 people per day.
Upon successful installation of these first two systems, we will begin another phase of the campaign to build an additional 18 systems for Bangladesh. Once the original 20 are successfully installed, we will endeavor to send even more systems.
We are obtaining the systems at a reduced, "at cost" price of $12,500 for each system. The normal capital equipment cost of each system is $18,628.
Each system can process approximately 90,000 gallons per day; with the installation of one system, a village with 3,409 people could be supplied with clean, arsenic-free water.
The installation of 20 water cleaning systems would allow 68,180 people to have clean, toxin-free water that is safe to drink, cook with, and bathe in.
A discussion on how much water a person needs per day can be found at www.ixpowerfoundation.org. This campaign's goal today is to provide 100 liters per day (26.42 gallons) per person.
The Foundation is working with AOSED for deployment of the water treatment systems in Bangladesh. AOSED is our partner to ensure local residents are also able to properly utilize and maintain the systems.
To learn about the situation in Bangladesh, we suggest you visit the following news sites for videos and stories:
VICE NEWS - Largest mass arsenic poisoning in history is in Bangladesh
VICE NEWS video - Poisoning in Bangladesh
Oman Medical Journal - Arsenic Poisoning in Bangladesh
U.S. News & World Report -20 million Bangladeshis are still being poisoned by arsenic-tainted groundwater
Human Rights Watch - 20 million drink arsenic-laced water New York Times - Bangladesh Pollution Told in Colors & Smells Daily Mail - Inside the horrific unregulated sweatshops of Bangladesh (The photo above reveals factories sitting in their own garbage and toxic waste. People live in these factories and in this dangerous pollution. In addition, many Bangladesh communities suffer from naturally-occuring arsenic contamination of their water sources.) Specifications of the IX Water Blü water treatment systems that we wish to send:1. The systems remove over 99% of contaminants (e.g., arsenate, hexavalent chromium, selenate).
2. They easily fit into existing water treatment system for removing particles and biologics. (If there is no existing water treatment system already present in the community, we will have to provide additional equipment to set up a complete system.)
3. They are easy to operate and maintain with minimal instruction.
4. The technology for the systems is new and is much more effective and efficient than other previously available systems for removing arsenic and other toxins. The technology was created by a team of scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of Texas, and New Mexico Tech.
5. The IX Water Blü systems we propose sending to Bangladesh has no reject water, unlike reverse osmosis systems, which rejects as much as 90% of the water processed and must be discharged to a sewer system, increasing cost and load on the environment.
6. Another point about the systems we wish to send: The media in the treatment systems is highly durable. Other adsorption media is fragile and requires expensive steam for regeneration. Ion exchange media requires messy on-site backwashing.
7. The systems are also modular and can be easily configured to accomodate any flow level.
8. The systems don't utilize costly additives, and unlike biological degradation and flocculation systems, treat water in real-time.
For more information, on the IX Water Blü systems that will be deployed to Bangladesh, review the first two brochures on this page.
To make a donation of $200 or more, or for more information about collaboration opportunities with the "Clean Water for Bangladesh" initiative, or for other possible campaigns to provide clean water for those in need, please email Deborah Deal or call the IX Power Foundation office in Colorado at [phone redacted].
Organizer and beneficiary
Deborah Deal
Organizer
Golden, CO
IX Power Foundation
Beneficiary