The Hydraid BioSand Filter from Grand Rapids-based Triple Quest has been validated in a new survey of Honduran households. The new research, conducted in August by members of Hydraid's field ...

Grand Rapids-based Triple Quest, the international distributor of the Hydraid BioSand water filter, announced the United States Navy's delivery of 150 Hydraid water filters and a fully equipped mobile ...

CHAPEL HILL – A simple, affordable household filtration device can reduce the incidence of diarrhea, one of the leading causes of disease and death in developing countries, by up to 40 percent, ...

The instructions for the wooden mold that would eventually become a concrete BioSand Filter were 60 pages long and full of diagrams and charts. They were complex and, at times, a bit unclear. The ...

SPRING LAKE, Mich., March 19, 2007 – Leading humanitarian health care agency, International Aid, today announced a major safe water initiative that will help address the growing health crisis caused ...

The Biosand Filter is celebrating thirty years of providing clean drinking water to communities in the developing world. The idea of designing a water filtration system small enough to be installed in ...

Water is said to be life. This is because everyone needs safe water for drinking, cooking, and simply for keeping him or herself clean on a daily basis. It is for this reason that the United Nations ...

Non-profit organization OHorizons recently created an innovative BioSand Filter that can deliver clean water at 1/10th of the cost of traditional methods. The filter hinges upon an open-source Wood ...

The bio-sand filter is revolutionising water purification in rural India offering increased filtration, better water portability and affordability. Urmila Devi lives in Chaitabazaar village, barely ...

Rod (left, holding child) and Ingrid (far right) McCarroll of Alberta, shown here in central Mexico, have traveled the world helping to bring a cheap and effective water filtration system to many ...

The new filter weighs about 15 pounds, compared to about 300 pounds for the concrete filters. “We didn’t use the lightweight filters in our research,” Sobsey said, “but we’re happy to know companies ...