Despite safe drinking water being essential for human health, welfare and productivity, there are still 2.1 billion people (29% of the global population) who do not have access to a safely managed drinking source. Despite the multimillion efforts from international organisations (i.e. UN, international foundations and NGOs) in the provision of water treatment plants, still in developing countries and refugee camps, water collected in bottles, tanks or cans, is very often contaminated with harmful bacteria, viruses and other pathogens from the surrounding environment. This is known as last-mile contamination and it can cause severe gastroenteritis and diarrhoea, which results in 1.5 million children deaths under the age of 5 and 2.2 million overall deaths annually.
Last-mile contamination is not addressed by current water treatment solutions which are either applied to the water upstream or are not suited to the daily realities of people who collect and store water in containers.
Solaris has developed “PURA”, a solution based on a natural ionizing resin, which emits a constant flow of electrons eliminated harmful bacteria (E.coli salmonella and Legionella), fungi and viruses in the water. It is chemical-free personal device, very easy to use, as you only need to immerse PURA inside the water and wait for the resin to perform its purifying effect. Our certified tests have shown that within 30 minutes the resin can remove all traces of salmonella and E.coli and significantly reduce traces of Legionella.
In order for PURA to change the lives of millions of people, we plan to further analyse its effectiveness and improve its shortcomings to be able to address the increasing needs in developing countries and refugee camps.
