Sparkle®africa: Manual-Powered Water Filtration System0 pages

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Manual-Powered Water Filtration System

More than 1,000,000,000 people lack safe
drinking water

Not a Drop to Drink
The need for pollutant-free drinking water in developing countries, especially in rural areas without
access to electricity, has reached a critical juncture.
Safe drinking water is currently inaccessible to more
than 1 billion people, nearly one-sixth of the world’s
population. Unsafe drinking water is one of the
leading causes of disease and death. Especially in
children. A 1998 study cited that nearly 400 children
per hour died in developing countries as a result of
the ingestion of contaminated drinking water.
Until now, the technology for creating potable
water was physically and financially out of the reach
of most rural areas in third-world and developing
countries. SpinTek Filtration created the Sparkle
Water Filtration System as much for humanitarian
reasons as for technological ones.
The Sparkle Water Filtration System is a simple
yet elegant solution for creating potable drinking
water from water sources high in organic, chemical
and bacterial pollutants. It relies on advances in

Hollow Fiber Membrane (HF) ultrafiltration
technology. These membranes provide a high
surface area for filtration while creating compact,
self-contained water filtration systems that are easy
to transport, install and maintain.

Utilizing Human Power
Unlike other filtration systems that rely on electricity
to function, the Sparkle Water Filtration System
generates its power from a manual source. It’s as easy
as riding a bicycle. In fact, the system’s pumping
and cleaning action is generated by a person
operating a specially mounted bicycle assembly.
Manually-driven pumps draw water from a source
such as a pond or river, and propel it through
Sparkle’s unique configuration of filtration components. In an eight-hour shift of manual filtration
power, recipients of the technology can expect to
see on average 1,000 to 2,000 gallons of contaminant-free drinking water. All without electrical
power or electric-dependent filtration systems.

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KEY BENEFITS
• Uses cost-effective, high-performance Membrane Ultrafiltration
Technology
• Low fouling system suffers little degradation of performance
between maintenance periods over months of use
• Human powered. A complete flexible system that doesn’t rely
on dubious electric delivery in outlying developing regions. Can
be converted to solar or animal power
• Little maintenance. This is an important factor in remote
locations with limited technical support
• Combination of technologies. HF, carbon filter, and ion
exchange filter eliminate virtually all contaminants while
providing fresh drinking water source from 150 to 250 gallons
per hour
• Easy to transport, install and maintain