Community Health and Environment Management Program under PCEA ECC today from 9.00 am to 3.00 pm held a forum: Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage at The ECC Hall. The forum was guided by a number of presentations from The ECC Accountant Mr. Daniel Wairagu, who stood in for the ECC Director Mr. Stephen Kuria who was not present for medical reasons, Maji Afya from ECC, Chujio water Filter, Tranceparency International, Kenya Water and Sanitationation Network, KWAHO and PSI(Population Service International) This forum is coming at a time when Kenya is experiencing a high number of its citizens diying of Cholera, Typhoid, Amoeba and bilharzia therefore comes a need to embrace the new technology in water treatment and safe storage at the household level. The technology is cheap to adopt and easily available, it improves the quality of drinking water and uses locally available materials to produce the filters.
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| Mr. Daniel Wairagu, ECC accountant urging people to embrace the new technology in water treatment. |
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| Community Health and Environment Officer, Mr. Ayako Vincent, is behind this technology that uses Siver Nitrate to produce the Ceramic Water Filters. He emphasises that the technology is cost effective and can be used by anyone to treat water at the household level. |
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| Mr. Matheuas Chege in charge of Disaster Response and Preparedness at ECC giving a presantation on a reaserch conducted from various households within Nairobi about water treatment. |
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| This is Michael from Transparency International taking photos at the forum. |
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| Wanja W. Mburu from Chujio Water Filter, a technology similar to Maji Afya from ECC giving a presentation about the Chujio Filter. She says,"Water is life, guard your life." |
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