The SkyHydrant™ water filtration unit is a lightweight, sustainable and affordable water filtration system for humanitarian projects, as well as emergency and disaster relief. This low pressure, high-flow, ultra-filtration technology meets World Health Organisation requirements for safe drinking water.
For example, a SkyHydrantTM GEM ($2000) can provide 5000 litres safe water, every day, for well over 5 years . This is less than one dollar a day, or considerably less than the cost of a cup of coffee each day. A simple GEM unit can provide safe water for up to 200 families.
- The SkyHydrantTM water purification unit produces safe drinking water without the need for power or chemicals
- It is a low cost, lightweight (16 kg) portable unit, which is easy to deploy in the field
- The operating functions are simple and manual, with virtually no consumables
- It can provide safe water for less than $1 per person per year
- It is designed to produce water for 500-1000 people as stand-alone unit, or it can be configured for larger capacity.
- A single unit can produce up to 1000 litres of clean drinking water per hour.
- The clean drinking water can be produced from the majority of non-saline surface and ground water.
How Does the SkyHydrant Work?The core of the system is an ultrafiltration (UF) membrane, consisting of thousands of microporous hollow fibres.
Harmful bacteria, micro-organisms, dirt and other contaminating particles are removed as they are unable to pass through the pores.
No chemicals, coagulants, pumps or energy are required for the filtration process.
The system operates under gravity with a minimum head pressure of 1 metre.
The cleaning process is simple and manual, taking just a few minutes a day.