AWARD YEAR
2015
CATEGORY
Community
GOALS
Gender Equality
KEYWORDS
drinking water, generators, malnurishment
COUNTRY
Italy
DESIGNED BY
The device has been designed by various people working at 3Sun, Rosa Micro, MRD.
Credits go to Sun4People, Andrea and Francesco Cuomo, Salvatore D'Angelo and Galliano Redolfi Riva for the engineering.
WEBSITE
Http://www.sun4people.org
Sun4Water
A solarpowered portable box to provide procapita cleandrinking water and electricity at 1€/ year.
Sun4Water is a portable device composed by a solar panel, filtering unit, pump, battery, tank and electronic control. Water is pushed by the pump into the 4 stage filter where pollutants (virus, bacteria, heavy metals..) down to 0.0001 micron diametre are removed. The built-in ozonator ensures continuous compliance with WHO standards.
For each hour of insolation Sun4Water sanitizes about 20 litres of water while providing extra energy to charge 4 cell phones or ONE LED lamp.
Plug and play installation: open the box, lift the PV panel, press the start button! Limited Mainenance: change the two input bayonet filters (spares included in the device) when clogged.
10 year Expected lifetime of the device.
Multipurpose Innovation is easy-to-use equipment filtering bacteria, virus AND pollutants while providing energy for lighting and cell phone charging.
The design started in Sicily, is owned by a NGO and is based on a filter manfactured in India by a Silicon Valley Funded Partner.