DOST Provincial Director Marcial Dahonan and Siayan Mayor Flora Villarosa led the distribution of the ceramic water filters to 50 beneficiaries.
ZAMBOANGA DEL NORTE – The Department of Science and Technology said it recently distributed some 50 units of ceramic water filters to selected poor families, mostly from the indigenous tribe of Subanen, in the town of Siayan in Zamboanga del Norte province in southern Philippines.
It said the water filters went to those who have limited or no access to clean or potable water. DOST Provincial Director Marcial Dahonan and Siayan Mayor Flora Villarosa led the distribution of the ceramic filters.
The recipients were also taught on the proper use of the simple technology. The municipal health office of Siayan shall monitor the households on the use of the filter.
Brenda Manzano, DOST Regional Director, said that the grant of water filter to the community is one of their initiatives under the project Community Empowerment thru Science and Technology or CEST.
She said water and sanitation is just one component of CEST for communities in the Western Mindanao region. The others are livelihood and economic enterprise development, health and nutrition, education and literacy, and disaster risk reduction and mitigation.
Access to safe drinking water is one of the major concerns of the government in Siayan, which is the country’s poorest municipality. And the DOST said the distribution of the water filters is part of its effort to make local technology work for the residents there and to provide practical solutions to the pressing issue.
The DOST said its water purification system is a simple technology that consists of a container and filtering medium, which is the ceramic pot filter. It said the ceramic filter is made up of red clay which is coated with nano-colloidal silver as the anti-microbial agent that replaces the chlorination process in traditional water filter systems.
The ceramic pot typically sits or hangs on the top of a large plastic container, which is fitted with a tap at the bottom. A lid is placed on top of the filter to prevent contamination.
The DOST said the system is capable of purifying tap water, deep well water, and raw water tainted with up to 3% suspended particles or silt and convert these into safe drinking water.
According to DOST’s Industrial Technology Development Institute, the water filter has passed the Philippine National Standards for drinking water in terms of microbiological and chemical analysis. (Mindanao Examiner)
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