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Disaster Relief

MIOX technology is available in different systems to assist both in disaster relief and preemptive emergency preparedness.

With MIOX technology, disaster relief organizations can be proactive and remarkably efficient by keeping proven, point-of-use water treatment systems in disaster-prone areas to quickly purify water from existing municipal sources.

Water supplies are compromised when infrastructures break down due to hurricanes, floods, tsunamis, earthquakes, power blackouts, or terrorist attacks, all prevalent events around the world in the last several years. Reconstruction efforts require rapid re-establishment of the water supply.  Boiling water is impractical if electric and gas utilities have been disrupted, and disinfection of contaminated wells involves complicated procedures with no guaranteed effectiveness. Due to these difficulties, the normal disaster response is to provide bottled water to the affected area.  Bottled water is not only extremely expensive, but also creates a trash disposal issue resulting from empty bottles. In addition, rapid coordinating of transportation logistics is often impossible.

The MIOX water disinfection technology solves all of these problems. It is available in two different systems appropriate for disaster relief and preemptive emergency preparedness:

  1. The smallest is the MSR MIOX Purifier, a handheld, individual use device that will rapidly inactivate hazardous microorganisms.
  2. A larger-scale treatment alternative is the Brine Pump System (BPS), a briefcase-sized unit weighing only 26 pounds (12 kg) that will treat up to 12,000 gallons of water per day (45,000 liters per day).

MIOX systems offer the following benefits in a disaster response scenario:

  • Safe to operate
  • Unlimited shelf life
  • Lightweight
  • Portable
  • Good taste
  • Kills all waterborne pathogens
  • Destroys biological and chemical agents
  • Ranges from handheld devices to large-scale water treatment

The MIOX technology has been used to supply safe drinking water in recent disasters.

  • In New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina [Watch Video], the Bernalillo County Sheriffs Department used a BPS system for treatment of cooking and shower water.
  • In Thailand, after the southeast Asia tsunami, a BPS was used by the DNA Investigation Center to clean medical autopsy equipment and by the Thai Army to purify drinking water in areas near Phuket. Nurses and doctors also received MSR MIOX Purifiers for individual water treatment.
  • In Sri Lanka, after the same tsunami, a BPS was mounted on a truck for treatment of city and well water, as well as river and standing water. In Florida, after the 2004 series of hurricanes, MSR MIOX Purifiers were donated to first responders.

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