Rainfresh Household Water Purication Unit

In the a(ermath of an emergency, it is cri3cal

to provide medium- to long-term clean water
solu3ons to those aected by the crisis.
Ceramic lters are among the easiest and most
cost eec3ve solu3ons to this challenge.
Envirogard is a Canadian company that
produces environmentally friendly ceramic
lters known as Rainfresh. They are easy to
use and provide an en3re family with roughly
one year of clean drinking water.

Rainfreshs unique ceramic ltra3on technology
traps pathogenic bacteria (e.g. E. coli) and
protozoan cysts (e.g. Cryptosporidium & QUICK FACTS

Giardia). It also reduces sediment and
suspended maLer as small as 0.3 microns (1 The Rainfresh is endorsed by UNICEF
micron = 1/1000 mm). As water passes through Conforms to SPHERE standards
the ceramic lters, harmful bacteria and cysts Provides safe drinking water from
are trapped inside the cartridges and safe, clean
drinking water passes through and is ready to virtually any water source
drink. The lters are installed in food-grade Requires no electricity, pumps or
plas3c buckets to provide an easy to use clean moving parts
water source.
Removes 99.99% of bacteria and
cysts
Dispenses drinking water at a rate of
3L per hour
Incorporates the safe storage of
water directly in its design
Portable and easily transportable
A unique interven3on that engages
Canadians, allowing volunteers to
drill, assemble and distribute the
units to families in need
RAINFRESH
HOUSEHOLD
WATER
PURIFICATION
UNIT
The units simple
design includes two
stacked food-grade
plas3c buckets housing Ceramic Interior view
Exterior view
four ceramic cartridges. cartridge

GlobalMedic has distributed over 41,000

Rainfresh units around the world. They
have been u3lized in responses to
typhoons in the Philippines; tsunamis in
Japan; cyclones in Vanuatu, ooding in
Myanmar and Pakistan; earthquakes in
Hai3 and Nepal; droughts in Kenya and
complex emergencies in the DR Congo,
Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine and
Yemen.

Due to their light weight and portability,
they are highly adaptable to almost any
situa3on.