On 05/24/2012 03:18 PM, Felix Delattre wrote: > Hello team, > > the local food team has a doubt concerning the water. Holger took the > water from the tap during his trip here and we all drink from the tap. > But some of us use filters or purified water (at least at home). We want > you to provide guaranteed good water and propose two options: > > == 1. Ceramic water filters == > Photos: http://www.filtronnica.com/empresa.htm > > We first though about ceramic filters
I just realized that i wrote ceramic filters. This is not correct: The filters are made of mud and sawdust and impregnated with colloidal silver, which together, like the website says, filters 98% of bacterias, parasites and turbidity out of the water. > and filling them up with usual > water. Doubtless this is a nice, organic and sustainable option. We can > even give this filters away after DebConf to public schools or orphanages. > > The biggest filters can store up to 30 liters of water. The filter > itself has a capacity of 8 liters, wich need around 2.5 hours to run > through and has to be refilled 3 to 4 times in 24 hours. > > We would need 15 filters to guarantee 2 liters of water in 24 hours for > every participant. > > It would cost us around $360 to buy these filters. > > > == 2. Purified Water in 5 gallon tank == > Photo: http://www.citymarket.com.ni/catalog/images/bidon20eh7.jpg > > If we calculate 2 liters every day per person it would be around 4000 > liters which would cost us around $380. > > > At the end purified water and filters are about the same (looking at the > price). With the filters we would have made a value which we could give > away afterwards (sustainable consumption), further we would support > alternative companies instead one of the biggest (but national) in > Nicaragua. On the ecological side, we would have letting spent way less > chemicals (for cleaning the purified water tanks) and used less plastics. > > BUT filters would mean "some work". They have to be prepared with water > running through - to get rid of the ceramic flavor. And during DebConf > and DebCamp they have so be refilled. We are happy to do so. But nobody > really wants to be the water guy/girl. So we propose this to the whole > team to know about your opinion. > > It would be good to know if you prefer filters and drink from it? And it > would just nice to have this refilling task something we could do > together? This way it wouldn't be a big task for anybody, only all of us > would be sometimes refilling some filter tanks and good water would > always be available for attendees. Or the other option is we just want > to go the easy way and not more work, serving purified water; And > everybody is going to be happy? > > Cheers, > Felix > > > _______________________________________________ > Debconf-team mailing list > Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org > http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team