Yemen Today

Silver Filters: Providing Clean Water to All

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:48:00 +0000

Khadija al-Zafeni walks two kilometers to collect water from a rain-fed cistern three times a day. “My children were constantly sick because of the water.

R V Boni

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 07:10:25 +0000

WE ARE REAL PROUD OF THE WORK OUR sON RICHARD IS DOING IN PRODUCING AND DISTRIBUTING THe SILVER FILTERS IN YEMEN -
Over 99% are being distributed FREE to the people in Yemen -

Dr. Michael Klingler

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:36:06 +0000

Very nice article, thank you. Some mistakes are diminishing the shine on it.
The kiln was build by GTZ, the concept of the potters for peace was dicovered via Internet and than adapted by Michael Klingler GTZ-IWRM Jemen, German taxpayers financed the whole concept starting from the local adapted design for the kiln, continued with the repeated hiring of local and foreign consultants and the continuous testing of the quality of the filtered water to assure a healthy product. All in all it is a success story in which a local potter was supported in his courage to take the risk to follow the business concept of GTZ-IWRM and he is now giving work to tens of people and save water to more than hundredthousand people.....thank you Ali for doing it!

saleh Majawar

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:06:28 +0000

iand my family we have used this filter for a long time, and we found it a very excellent, the taste of water has improved, so I advise everyone to use it both live in the city or live in rural areas, will be able to distinguish the difference between before and after use the filter to use, through the taste of tea and coffee .

Carl Hammerdorfer

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:12:06 +0000

Great story... (and not only because Rich is a friend and former colleague) This appears to be a technology that has great potential as a consumer product, a scaleable business, and that delivers a strong social bottom line. I'd love to learn more about strategies to propogate the business and tech.

Ignacio Olaybar

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:29:58 +0000

Hi, first I've heard the news today from the radio NPR,now I'm sitting in front of my computer to see the total news. It's great and very helpful for the public not only on the cities but most of it for the urban areas. Is it commercially sold here in Saudi Arabia. How I wish to buy one here in Jeddah. Thanks to the potter with out borders.

Cathy Bruder

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:54:39 +0000

Way to go Rich! I heard the NPR story yesterday (Feb 23, 2010) by Peter Kenyon, "American in Yemen Seeks Success With Water Filters" Did a google search this morning and here I am - this is terrific work! All the best and continued success with your great efforts to improve public health worldwide.

Sathya Rajan

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:02:03 +0000

Great work. Heard it on NPR and did a search to find this website. Can be replicated elsewhere too. Just nominated this on the techawards.com/nominate website.

Christen Parker

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:14:45 +0000

Can people outside of Yemen purchase these water filters? I work with a few communities in Southern Haiti and water quality is a huge problem there. I spoke about this system, that I heard about on NPR, and our project director in Haiti is very interested. I've searched some on the internet but have found no way to purchase these filters. Thank you.

Roy Topping Smith

Wed, 05 May 2010 18:36:02 +0000

What a great story and great job done by Rich Boni. For once a story that is optimistic. Diarrhea sucks.

Zohra Merabet

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 07:48:42 +0000

Simply delighted that you managed to carry on with your mission improving access to clean water through a truly creative way...You are a source of inspiration!