UNICEF: Ceramic filters improve water quality in Myanmar

YANGON, Myanmar, 28 August 2007 -- "I am not the only one who prefers to drink water from the tap of the blue bucket," says Ma Eh Wah, a mother of two children who lives in A Pyin The Phyu village in Yangon, the capital of Myanmar.

The Happy Family Water System is part of an ongoing project started last year by UNICEF and a local non-governmental organization, the Community Development Association.

The project has brought appropriate water purification technology to the household level. A factory in Yangon has produced more than 3,000 ceramic water filters that have been distributed to villages and schools in places such as A Pyin The Phyu, where surface water is used as a major water source.

To read the full story, visit: http://www.unicef.org/wes/myanmar_40738.html

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[rosemacaskie]

Were were the ceramic filters in Haiti? How much jmoney did you get out of that disaster?it is plain how little you spent there. I saw a mounth or two ago that you are still asking money for Haiti after hardly using the money given for them there at all and after them dying of cholera. If you give money to a charity that is faith based do they then do things like help Haitans less because they are impossible lot given over to strange religiouse practices. rose macaskie.

[communitywork]

It is hard to assure delivery of services and basic resources such as water when the military SLORC regime keeps oppressing the Burmese people. Free Burma now!