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First step.
Have water purification
equipment available, in inventory, ready to deploy.
Type
of Equipment:
Fresh water purification
is the first order of business.
Water from the rivers, reservoirs, from municipal contaminated sources, from
ponds, from the street, will for the most part be fresh water.
Fresh, but contaminated, water is the easiest to purify.
The equipment requires less maintenance and actually can provide the best
quality.
This equipment MUST
have three specific operating functions:
(1)
Filtration down to
1-Micron for the removal of parasites. Giardia and Cryptosporidium will be
rampant.
(2)
Adsorption and
absorption media filtration for the removal of hazardous chemicals. All
kinds of hazardous chemicals and hazardous metals, insecticides, pesticides,
etc. will be present from the run-off.
(3)
A process to kill
bacteria and viruses. This water will have very high e-coli and the best
process here will be Ultra-Violet.
Then,
if you are going to hold the water in storage tanks for any period of time
(especially in this heat), you will add chlorine as a "holding agent" to
prevent bacteria growth. Chlorine should not be used as the "killer" of
bacteria and viruses, the UV is; as the chlorine in unclean water creates
carcinogens.
No system available has
a better sequence, processing time, holding time control system or better
"media formula" for removal of hazardous chemicals than the
Global Water Group Systems.
These systems can be mobile or fixed base.
In some instance you may
need bags to fill or other drinking containers for deploying the water to
the end users. Sometimes it is a series of faucets for availability.
Sometimes it is just filling tanks connected to mobile buildings and
portable shelters. Whatever is needed can be inventoried and be ready for
deployment.
In cases where there is salt
water present;
either brackish water or seawater, you will need RO (reverse osmosis) type
of water purification equipment. RO, unfortunately, removes some of the
"good stuff" in water, but it is the best process for removal of salt and
purification. In the instance where there is an overabundance of chemicals
in the source water, it is also necessary to deploy reverse osmosis based
equipment (similar to the military ROWPU's).
The best
desalination equipment for the highest level of quality and quality tasting
potable water is also the Global Water Group DESAL Systems.
These systems can also be mobile or fixed base.
Second Step:
Probably all of the area
municipal water processing systems have
contaminated source water in their reservoirs. The municipal
infrastructure, in most instances being underground, is probably in-tact.
Therefore, the moment
power is restored and those municipal systems can pump water, it is time to
insert a Global Water fresh water purification platform between the existing
filtration and pumping station (prior to the chlorination process that the
city uses)... before the start of the distribution system for the
municipality.
The Global Water system will now purify the water.
The "old"
chlorination station will be cranked down to a level that will only keep the
bacteria from growing within the distribution cycle.
The municipality will run
the water through the system and people will have to let a certain amount of
water run through their faucets and pipes to purge the system of its
contamination. The water after that will be better potable water than what came
through before Katrina.
Now you have water systems running again and we
can start to get some new life to the people.
Third Step:
Wastewater Processing.
We cannot rebuild
wastewater infrastructure facilities with new "antiquated" systems.
The old concept of
sludge fields and contamination must end. Part of the problem in New Orleans
is the overflow from the waste systems. The sludge and e-coli contaminated
effluent should not happen again.
Global
Water manufactures the newest, highest quality, modular wastewater-recycling
systems.
At the end of the day,
these systems have:
NO SLUDGE,
no odor, and
the wastewater
effluent is recycled back to potable water.
The effluent coming out
of toilets and sinks and showers comes out better than an "Evian" bottle.
This is the best environmentally correct effluent one could conceive. It can
be used in any manner: maintenance, toilets, portable buildings, grounds, or
even drinking... but the worse situation of pouring it onto the ground or back
into rivers and ponds will be better water than we have been drinking.
These modular (even mobile)
systems can replace every municipal system at lower costs, less of a land use,
and create a much healthier environment.
These systems, even on a
small scale, need to be ordered immediately to start to deploy into smaller
communities within the next 4 to 8 weeks. Now we would have a lifestyle with the
number one health requirement at the highest level - water.
Water Problems:
Without clean, purified
potable water for washing our hands and face and for cooking, we will begin
experiencing the terrible water related diseases and deaths that accompany
contaminated water.
Without wastewater
facilities and the recycling of contaminated effluent, the many diseases
associated with untreated human waste will run rampant.
Water Solutions:
Begin
ordering these units immediately.
As soon as production makes equipment available, select priority locations and
begin deploying them.
In some instance, portable
showers, sinks, and toilets need to be connected to these processes of purified
water (similar to what Global Water did for the 2002 Olympic Committee in 78
locations) and wastewater-recycling. |
