Imo agency tutors residents, workers on safe, clean water generation methods

A two-day training programme on biosand filter technology, a method of providing safe water to be used by communities organised by Imo State Rural Water and Sanitation Agency (ImoRUWASA) and PIND Foundation has ended at the agency’s premises in Owerri.

The programme officer John Aham Nwamuo who painstakingly took participants to different stages of the safe water technology, said with the method, the thought of drilling borehole which is costly would be a thing of the past because this method does not cost much.

According to him, “you get a housing unit made of plastic(like the size of plastic dust bin), gather gravel or granite or charcoal and soft sand. Then wash the sand thoroughly and leave to dry; wash the gravel or granite thoroughly and leave to dry, depending on the one to be used before pouring or loading into the plastic.”

He made it clear that charcoal, granite and gravel could be used alternatively and not at the same time before adding sand and water to filter.

The process according to him would stay for 21 days before the water becomes safe for drinking, by that time the unsafe water or water borne diseases filtered must have gone out.

Nwamuo said, “biosand technology is far better than boiling water because the former removes water borne diseases while the latter kills and leaves them there.”

At the end of the programme, the participants pleaded with the organisers to take the training to the 27 local government areas of the state where it would benefit rural dwellers the more.

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