Of the blessed mud of the Camagüey,filters to purify the health

Cepero shows the quality of the produced filters.

A simple and ecological filter of mud and sawdust is about to be generalized in the county of Camagüey, after being proven by means of laboratory tests its effectiveness in the bacteriological treatment of the water.

Dear Cepero, specialist of the project in the Integrated Center of technologies of the Water ( MENTIONS), assures that the application of the “strainer” natural, will be able to extend to those mountainous and outlying areas of the cities of the country where the consumption sources still lack of expensive potable plant .

The physical-chemical analyses of the addition “landlord”, reveal the total elimination of causing bacterias ofdiarreic and infectocontagios illnesses, and the improvement of the transparency of the water, although persist in them the minerals that contain.

The filter, manufactured in the noted institution of Camagüey, consists of a clay recipient and sifted sawdust, of eight liters of capacity mounted on a plastic evacuator drum of until 2,5 liters of water purified per hour.

“Here in the center we assume the design, construction and installation of all the machines tools for the “factory” of filters: the hammer mill, the removing to unite the mud and the fine sawdust, the press, the molds, the oven… and we are under conditions of producing some 250 monthly vessels”, affirmed Cepero.

The production of the recipient cleanser is not expensive, because the clay of used quality is plentiful in Camagüey - City of the Earthenjar - and the sawdust, the other matter prevails used, recovers i carpentries, as long as the process of the one baked peasant doesn't need the consumption of petroleum neither electricity. (Rolando Sarmiento Ricart)