2012/5/24 Felix Delattre <li...@delattre.de> > 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 == >
bottled water is the best option as it has gone through several processes of cleaning, and that means less sick people :) the plastic bottles can be recycled and recover the 20 dollars or donate them so another person can recycle > > 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 >
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