Low-cost biological sand (biosand) filters can help provide safe drinking water to people in rural and peri-urban areas in developing countries, who are being forced to drink contaminated water due to ...

Triple Quest (www.triplequest.com), global distributor of the Hydraid® BioSand Water Filter, today announced that an extensive field study conducted in rural Cambodia by researchers at the University ...

SPRING LAKE, Mich., March 19, 2007 – Leading humanitarian health care agency, International Aid, today announced a major safe water initiative that will help address the growing health crisis caused ...

The Hydraid BioSand Filter from Grand Rapids-based Triple Quest has been validated in a new survey of Honduran households. The new research, conducted in August by members of Hydraid's field ...

Rod (left, holding child) and Ingrid (far right) McCarroll of Alberta, shown here in central Mexico, have traveled the world helping to bring a cheap and effective water filtration system to many ...

Non-profit organization OHorizons recently created an innovative BioSand Filter that can deliver clean water at 1/10th of the cost of traditional methods. The filter hinges upon an open-source Wood ...

Grand Rapids-based Triple Quest, the international distributor of the Hydraid BioSand water filter, announced the United States Navy's delivery of 150 Hydraid water filters and a fully equipped mobile ...

CHAPEL HILL – A simple, affordable household filtration device can reduce the incidence of diarrhea, one of the leading causes of disease and death in developing countries, by up to 40 percent, ...

ACCESS to clean water and good sanitation has long been a cry of every community, urban or rural. In an effort to enable more people access safe drinking water, simple water technology inventions have ...

The new filter weighs about 15 pounds, compared to about 300 pounds for the concrete filters. “We didn’t use the lightweight filters in our research,” Sobsey said, “but we’re happy to know companies ...