BrightWater Energy Solutions and UniCore Investment have launched a new potable water technology to help eliminate clean water scarcity in developing regions like Africa. Designed by a former U.S. Navy engineer and a dedicated team with experience in water-deprived areas, BrightWater is low-energy and easy to deploy.
With access to a borehole, the all-in-one fully automated system provides ultra-filtration down to 0.2 microns and is capable of filling a 180 litre container in 2.5 minutes, producing up to 98,901 litres per day distributed through 10 nozzles. The BrightWater Unit can also be outfitted with multiple disinfectant washing stations, offering onsite clean handwashing as needed.
The unit purifies without reverse osmosis and can safely remove nearly all pollutants, including viruses, bacteria, fluoride, heavy metals like arsenic III/V, lead, mercury, chromium, copper and even natural and depleted uranium.
BrightWater owner and founder, Joe Carbine said: “This is the only compact system of its kind in the world, addressing a full scope of water scarcity issues: purity, access, volume, sanitation, and economic feasibility. Our unique Solar Powered Water Dispensing Unit pumps and distributes a very large volume continuously, from multiple spickets, and all but eliminates those long lines of unfortunate women and girls often seen crowded around water sources. People in this situation struggle to get any water for drinking and cooking at all, let alone for handwashing and cleaning. Our system also channels purified water to individual washing stations, promoting hygiene among the water collectors. The entire BrightWater system was created for power, portability, effectiveness and cost. Combining all these new technologies together into one clean water delivery system provides great flexibility in pricing, which will pay back investors in an unusual short period of time.”
Access to clean water is a global challenge strongly felt in developing regions, with poorly managed water and lack of sanitation exposing millions to preventable health risks like cholera, dysentery, hepatitis A, typhoid and polio. The World Health Organization estimates that polluted water causes an estimated 842,000 people to die each year from diarrhoea alone, with 361,000 of these being children under the age of five.
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