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Darfur to Receive Mobile Water Purification Units
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2007.tb08067.x
Subject(s) - desert (philosophy) , corporation , environmental science , business , waste management , environmental protection , environmental engineering , engineering , political science , finance , law
This article announces that WorldWater & Solar Technologies Corporation has received an order to produce 10 of its portable Mobile MaxPure? units for use in the Darfur region of western Sudan. The proprietary, solar‐driven water pumping and purifying units, purchased for a total of $775,000, will provide approximately 30,000 gpd of safe drinking water at each of 10 sites across the desert region, which is experiencing a major humanitarian crisis.