This is a brief outlining the benefits of ceramic pot filters done by the CDC and USAID.
Category: Promotional Material
CBC.ca | Daybreak South
Interviews: Daybreak South, CBC Radio, July 27 2011
Potters Without Borders – Burt Cohen speaks with Marion Barschel
Potters Without Borders has been working for years to bring clean water to African homes. Burt Cohen of Enderby is the executive director of Potters Without Borders. These are some photos he took while in Somaliland last November.
Interviews: Daybreak South, CBC Radio, July 27 2011
Potters Without Borders – Burt Cohen speaks with Marion Barschel
Potters Without Borders has been working for years to bring clean water to African homes. Burt Cohen of Enderby is the executive director of Potters Without Borders. These are some photos he took while in Somaliland last November.
Flow testing filters at the Biyo Miireceramic water filter factory in Hargeisa, Somaliland. This factory was set up in early 2010 by the Red Crescent Society and is currently responding to the increased demand caused by the large number of displaced people in the region.
Daybreak’s Marion Barschel spoke with Burt Cohen about what this organization is doing in Africa right now.
CBC.ca | Daybreak South
Interviews: Daybreak South, CBC Radio, July 27 2011
Potters Without Borders – Burt Cohen speaks with Marion Barschel
Potters Without Borders has been working for years to bring clean water to African homes. Burt Cohen of Enderby is the executive director of Potters Without Borders. These are some photos he took while in Somaliland last November.
Interviews: Daybreak South, CBC Radio, July 27 2011
Potters Without Borders – Burt Cohen speaks with Marion Barschel
Potters Without Borders has been working for years to bring clean water to African homes. Burt Cohen of Enderby is the executive director of Potters Without Borders. These are some photos he took while in Somaliland last November.
Flow testing filters at the Biyo Miireceramic water filter factory in Hargeisa, Somaliland. This factory was set up in early 2010 by the Red Crescent Society and is currently responding to the increased demand caused by the large number of displaced people in the region.
Daybreak’s Marion Barschel spoke with Burt Cohen about what this organization is doing in Africa right now.
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Promotional brochures
We put together two Tri-fold brochures in preparation for the Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival. One in B&W The other in color. They are pretty huge documents, ready for printing.
Color (824kb):trifold.pdf
Black and White (1.2MB): trifold2.pdf
KOMASKET MUSIC FESTIVAL
August 4, 5 & 6, 2006
Komasket Park, Vernon, BC Canada
 
We put together an information booth last weekend for presentation at the Komasket Music Festival. Using information gathered from other websites, and CWF (Ceramic Water Filter) documents provided by Burt we made up some full color posters. The entire “Komasket Publicity Package” can be found below for download.
We were able to sell a few “Potters for peace” T-shirts, and add a number of contacts to our E-mail list. Most importantly we connected with many people who are interested in the CWF technology and made our name “Potters Without Borders” known to a new community.
Burt made a beautiful receptacle for the filter, which prompted many inquiries about the filters availability here in Canada. It seems that the idea of having a countertop water filter is just as appropriate in the Okanagan Valley where clean, healthy drinking water is becoming scarce. Especially as an alternative to bottled water which has become the “norm”, the CWF is a way to have clean water without chlorination. Could we produce a filter here and use the profits elsewhere?
Komasket Publicity Package:
cartoon.jpg : 300kb – Cartoon of Filtron, by Santec, Cuba (Color 8.5×11)
logo1lg.jpg : 1.05mb – PWB logo, (B/W 11×17)
mission.pdf : 13kb – Preliminary mission statement (to be revised), (B/W 11×17)
press poster copy.jpg : 1mb – Glossy poster of filter presses from 5 countries (Color 11×17)
RDI Display.pdf : 241kb – 2 page explination of the entire filter production process with photos of every step taken from the RDI website (Color 8.5×11)
The Water Filter Project Auction Book
PDF Document – Images of water-filter recepticles created for fund raising auction.
Document (648kb): The Water Filter Project Auction Booksm.pdf
Capabilities and Short History of the Filtron Design Ceramic Water Filter (CWF)
The water filter design that is now used in Nicaragua was invented by a Guatemalan chemist, Fernando Mazareigos.  This design was the first that we know of where the capabilities of a ceramic filter were combined with the antimicrobial capabilities of colloidal silver.Â
 In 1981, the InterAmerican Bank financed a comparative study to determine which of ten appropriate technology filters best met the following criteria:
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â« Has a sufficient flow rate for home use
â« Is effective at removing bacteria
â« Is simple to manufacture
â« Can be made with available materials
â« Can be made and sold at low cost
â« Contributes to economic activity at low-income level
â« Ease of distribution
Download Full Document: Capabilities of the Filter.doc
Diarrhea and Its Causes
Diarrhea can be defined as the passing of frequent, loose or watery stools more than four times a day (SAFETI Adaptation of Peace Corps Resources). Diarrhea is, in effect, the effort of the body to expel the disease-causing microbes.
In order to survive and cause disease in the body, pathogenic bacteria must remain there and multiply. The cells of the gastrointestinal tract, the respiratory tract and the genito-urinary tract are covered in mucus membranes. A thick layer of mucus helps prevent penetration of bacteria. Mucus membranes are constantly flushed by fluids that prevent bacteria from becoming established, move bacteria through the system, and kill or inhibit growth. Natural antibodies and fever also kill pathogenic bacteria.
Download Full Report: Diarrhea and its Causes.doc
IDE Roll Out Plan
Ceramic Water Purifier National Roll-Out Strategy and Quality Assurance Plan.
Dec 29, 2004
International Development Enterprises – Cambodia
Download Full Report : Â IDE CWP NRS Final _A_.pdf
Colloidal Silver – Background
Silver has been used as a medicine and preservative by many cultures throughout history The Greeks used silver vessels for water and other liquids to keep them fresh.Silver was used by the Romans to preserve water in storage jars. During war campaigns Alexander the Great boiled and stored water in silver or bronze urns to reduce waterborne disease.
Silver was used as a medicine in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. Silver, along with other metals was discovered to possess microbicidal properties but silver alone showed both strong microbicidal properties and low or no toxicity to humans. The colloidal state proved to be the most effective form because it lacked the caustic properties of salts (such as silver nitrate) and demonstrated a high level of activity with very low concentrations (oligodynamic). In 1881 silver nitrate was first used for the prevention of gonorrhea. In 1884, the German obstetrician F. Crede administered 1% silver nitrate to the eyes of newborn infants, virtually eliminating the incidence of disease-caused blindness in newborns. When antibiotics came into widespread use in the 1930s, the use of colloidal silver was dropped.
Download full document: Colloidal Silver1.doc