Citarum (Sundanese: WalunganCitarum)) is a river in West Java, Indonesia. It has an important role in the life of the people of West Java, as it is used to support agriculture, water supply, industry, sewerage, etc. The river is heavily polluted by human activity; about five million people live in the basin of the river.[1]
Over 100 million people in Indonesia lack access to safe water and more than 70 percent of the country’s 220 million population relies on water obtained from potentially contaminated sources
dispose of their waste directly into rivers and canals due to improper sanitationEvery year, at least 300 out of 1,000 Indonesians suffer from water-borne diseases, including cholera, dysentery, and typhoid fever
Global view- these are the countries affected by improper water sourcesWe will target indonesia because it is more accesible. Facing a problem that is within our our scope to solveHow many pple dying per second.
sari cloth, when folded four to eight times, would create a filter of approximately ?? pore size, removing all copepods--and the cholera-causing bacteria attached to them--from the water.
Materials used to make the pot is easily available- terracotta clay (brick clay), rice husks and sariSignificant amount of money used to boil water- money can be channeled to better useCan be reused many times- 2 years, probably 4
Someone already doing it, but not patentedWilling to help anyone who wants to start biz, set up factory- want pple to profit from it so its sustainableClay cracks if mishandled- hairline cracks will reduce effectiveness of filtration process.