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Personal Water Cleaner Opv

The Index Project

The Index Project
Copenhagen, Denmark

Every year, in the Monsoon region, floods strike large numbers of people, leaving them without basic living conditions. One of the big problems is lack of potable water, which becomes more difficult with the passage of time.

Personal Water Cleaner OPV is a flash response immediately following the flood, i.e. the situation in which the flow of potable water is broken. The device can be issued to people struck by the flood, thus enabling them to provide sufficient quantities of potable water for themselves and their families on their own.

OPV personal water cleaner cleans the water through mechanical filtering, while the energy for the process is human-provided. After filling it with water, OPV is held in the hands or hung around the torso. Pressure on the bellows, simultaneous with sucking, creates sufficient pressure difference to filter the water.

OPV lowers the possibility of creation and spreading of diseases and other problems caused by lack of potable water or drinking polluted water.

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  • Title: Personal Water Cleaner Opv
  • External Link: Personal Water Cleaner Opv - INDEX: Design to Improve Life® website
  • Sustainable Development Goals targeted: Good Health & Well-being, Clean Water & Sanitation
  • INDEX: Award Cycle: 2005
  • INDEX: Award Category: Home
  • Driver(s) of Change: Entrepeneurship, Globalization
  • Designed By: Marko Baus, Igor Stanisljevic, Parabureau
  • Country of Design : Croatia
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