As every year, the United Nations announced World Water Day last week to draw attention to the important resource of water. This year, the day was all about climate change, accompanied by these three messages:
These three sentences show the urgent need for our actions. On the other hand, they also raise hope that it is not too late!
It is astonishing, however, that this urgent appeal is necessary when you consider how important water is. Whether for animals, plants or our social life: everything needs water.
We often do not appreciate our privilege:
Turn the tap/faucet on –> water is running.
The pictures from Thailand show that not everyone has the opportunity to do so. The government’s water supply does not reach deep into the mountains of the north, so that the population there is dependent on rivers, lakes and the collection of rain. The water is cleaned by boiling it for at least 20 minutes, then it kills about 65-70% of the bacteria.
That is why we think it’s necessary to equip all villages in the mountains with biosand filters, which clean the water naturally and destroy up to 99% of all bacteria.
PRO: people are healthier, have fewer worms, do not have to take the exhausting walk to the water every day and collecting firewood is minimized a lot.
Negative: The production of the filter costs money, which of course the families in the mountains do not have.
But that’s all
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And thanks to the many donations for biosand filters, we have already installed thousands of filters! THANKS for it
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If you would also like to donate a biosand filter, please contact thomas@raintree-foundation.org
The costs of 2800 THB include materials, delivery, installation and maintenance for the next 10-15 years.
So it’s not really that much, considering that we sometimes need to drive up to 4 hours to install the filters!
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