2. Auro Aquasafe
PURIFIER OF WATER (AAPOW)
•CONTENTS OF THIS PRESENTATION
• Product Information
• Water situation in India
• Integration with Malnutrition programs
• Addition in kits with ORS sachets
• Integration with HIV/AIDS programs
• Reduction in under-5 year deaths
• Reducing burden of Women/Children
• Arsenic Removal
• Disaster relief
• Contact Details
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3. “AuroAquasafe” Purifier of Water
"AuroAquasafe" is a powdered mixture
that removes arsenic, iron, fluoride,
pathogenic organisms and suspended
solids rendering contaminated water into
safe drinking water. It has been developed
by "Environmental Monitoring Service"
laboratory in Auroville, Tamil Nadu, India.
"AuroAquasafe" contains a chlorine
containing compound, aluminium salt that
acts as coagulant and other additives
which provide good coagulation and
flocculation process for water treatment
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4. "AuroAquasafe" can remove following
contaminants from contaminated drinking water:
1. Fluoride from 7 ppm to less than 1.5 ppm level.
2. Organic matter.
3. Iron from 5 ppm to below 0.3 ppm level.
4. Bacteria more than 99.9999 % removal rate.
5. Viruses more than 99.99 % removal rate.
6. Protozoa parasites – up to 99.9 % removal rate.
7. Suspended particles from 800 NTU to less than 10 NTU
8. Arsenic (AsIII & AsV) from 400ppb to less than 10 ppb.
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6. Types of water that can be
treated with "AuroAquasafe"
• Bore well - water contaminated with fluoride,
arsenic, iron and microbes
• Surface water - containing turbidity, organic
matter and microbial contamination
• Rain water - contaminated with suspended
matter and turbidity
• Flood water - organic matter, turbidity, microbial
contamination
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7. USAGE INSTRUCTIONS
• Simple tools required for usage:
– A scissor or knife to open the sachet
– A spoon or other implement to stir the water
– Two vessels (i.e. buckets) with volume capacity of 10 liters or
more – the first to be used for the treatment process and the
second to be used for storing the treated water.
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8. How to use "AuroAquasafe"
Step 1. Open the "AuroAquasafe" sachet using scissors. Add the
contents of the sachet into a bucket containing 10 liters of
contaminated water.
Step 2. Stir the water vigorously for one minute using the wooden
stick.
Step 3. Wait for 30 minutes for flocks to settle down, till the water
become clear.
Step 4. If the water after treatment does not contain any floating
debris it can be poured directly to the clean storage bucket. If the
water has some floating debris, a filter (cotton cloth) placed on the
clean bucket can be used to remove them. Please note: Precipitation
particles (sludge) which are left at the bottom of the bucket after
coagulation can not be filtered with the filter cloth. They should stay
in the bucket, by carefully pouring top water into the clean bucket.
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9. Laboratory and field testing
• Meets WHO criteria as
‘protective’ :
– 99.99999% bacteria
– 99.99% viruses
– 99.9% chlorine-resistant
parasites like
Cryptosporidium and
Giardia.
• Reduces heavy metals,
organics and pesticides.
– Arsenic
– Lead
– Fluoride
– Iron
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10. Why Household Drinking Water?
• While access to drinking water in India has increased over the
past decade, the tremendous adverse impact of unsafe water
on health continues.
• The World Bank estimates 21% of communicable diseases in
India are water related.
• Despite investments in water and sanitation infrastructure,
many low-income communities in India continue to lack
access to safe drinking water.
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11. Under – five year child deaths
• Almost 2000 children die everyday from water borne diseases
– more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and measles combined!
• In 2011, around 50 per cent of global under-five deaths
occurred in just five countries, with India ranking highest.
Incidentally, India’s toll is higher than the deaths in the next
three countries combined!
• The highest mortality from diarrhea is in children under the
age of five, highlighting an urgent need for focused
interventions to prevent diarrheal disease in this age group.
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12. Malnutrition
• One in every three malnourished children in the world lives in
India.
• Diarrhea is caused mainly by the ingestion of pathogens,
especially in unsafe drinking water. The World Health
Organization (WHO) estimates that 50% of malnutrition is
associated with repeated diarrhea as a result of unsafe water
and insufficient hygiene.
• Lack of safe drinking water close to home has many indirect
effects on nutrition. People are often left with no choice but to
drink unsafe water from unprotected sources.
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13. Tackling Malnutrition
Interventions that contribute to preventing and
treating malnutrition include :
– Improved access, by the poor, to adequate amounts of
healthy food.
– Improved access to clean drinking water at household
level.
– Improved sanitation facilities.
– Health education for a healthy diet.
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14. Integration of Auro Aquasafe Purifier of
Water sachets with Malnutrition programs
• HOPE NGO studied 3000 households (7019 children)
– Treatment households received purifier sachets and
training.
• HOPE reported reductions in diarrheal incidence in
households using water purifier sachets vs control
group.
• Time to recover for malnourished children reduced by
20 days.
– With clean water = 3.5 months
– Control Group = 4.15 months
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15. Introduction in Medical Kits with ORS sachets
• The availability of simple, highly effective and affordable
treatment in the form of ORS is recommended by UNICEF. All
oral fluids, including ORS solution, should be prepared with
the best available drinking water.
• Possibility of obtaining clean, safe drinking water is rather
remote in village settings throughout India. The availability of
treated water would be exceptional.
• While boiling is widely practiced, it may be more costly,
inconvenient and environmentally unsustainable than other
emerging point-of-use water treatment options, and caution
must also be exercised to avoid scalding accidents, especially
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16. Introduction in Medical Kits with ORS sachets
Auro Aquasafe Purifier of Water sachets can be supplied along
with ORS sachets throughout India, especially to be included in
various kits containing ORS sachets, to ensure that clean
drinking water is used to prepare ORS solutions.
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17. • Women/Girls walk (often 4 to 6
hours) on an average, daily to
collect drinking water for their
family.
• This chore effectively precludes
girls from obtaining an education
and women away from more
productive activities.
Water is a woman’s issue
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18. Auro Aquasafe Purifier of Water helps in
reducing burden
• The economic benefits are immediate and long term.
• Immediate benefits include averted health related
costs, and time savings with having clean water
closer to home.
• Time saved due to less illness and access to drinkable
water at home translates into higher work
productivity and higher school attendance.
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19. Integration with HIV/AIDS Programs
• A study by UNICEF reports that the people living with
HIV/AIDS who had been provided household guidance
on treating water had 33% fewer days with diarrhea.
• Households affected by HIV and AIDS require greater
quantities of clean water to meet the needs of
chronically ill to prevent opportunistic infections.
• Auro Aquasafe Purifier of Water packets remove
chlorine resistant parasites that can be fatal to people
living with HIV/AIDS.
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20. Arsenic Contamination
• The Ministry for Drinking Water and Sanitation estimates
that over 10 million Indians are at risk due to excess arsenic
contamination present in groundwater.
• Studies show up to
98% of arsenic
removal from drinking
water through usage
of Auro Aquasafe
Purifier of Water
sachets.
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21. High Concentration of Iron
• High concentration of Iron (>1.0 mg/l) in ground
water has been observed in more than 1.1 lakh
habitations in the country.
• Ground water contaminated by iron has been
reported from the states of Andhra Pradesh, Assam,
Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, J&K,
Jharkhand Karnataka Kerala. Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya Orissa, Punjab,
Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, West
Bengal & UT of Andaman & Nicobar.
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22. High Fluoride Contamination
• The century-long drinking water problem associated with high
flouride contamination still persists in an alarmingly high number of
14,132 habitations in 19 Indian States, found the Union Health and
Family Welfare Ministry. (Report Dec., 2014)
• High levels of fluoride contamination affects the teeth and bones
and in the long run it leads to symptoms of skeletal fluorosis with
abdominal pain, excessive saliva, nausea, vomiting, seizures and
muscle spasms. People come to know about it only after 10-15 years
when the bones show deformity, when the thickness of the bone,
causes stiffness of the spine. It is more visible in growing children
below 15 years, according to experts.
• Urging an immediate focus on the Drinking Water and Sanitation to
go with the Prime Minister’s “Swachch Bharat” campaign, the health
ministry said ensuring the supply of safe drinking water in these
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23. "AuroAquasafe" can remove following
contaminants from contaminated drinking water:
1. Fluoride from 7 ppm to less than 1.5 ppm level.
2. Organic matter.
3. Iron from 5 ppm to below 0.3 ppm level.
4. Bacteria more than 99.9999 % removal rate.
5. Viruses more than 99.99 % removal rate.
6. Protozoa parasites – up to 99.9 % removal rate.
7. Suspended particles from 800 NTU to less than 10 NTU
8. Arsenic (AsIII & AsV) from 400ppb to less than 10 ppb.
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24. Disaster Relief
•Treatment of water at point of use during emergencies is quicker and less
expensive.
•Auro Aquasafe Purifier of Water packets are easy to transport in
emergencies.
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25. Criteria Chlorination
Solar
Disinfection
Boiling
Filtration
/ RO
Auro
Aqua
safe
Removal of bacteria Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Removal of viruses Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Removal of heavy metals e.g.
Iron
No No No Yes Yes
Effective in turbid water No No No Yes Yes
Removal of Arsenic & Fluoride No No No Yes Yes
High upfront costs No No No Yes No
After sales maintenance No No No Yes No
Requirement of electricity No No No Yes No
Easily transported during floods Yes Yes No No Yes
Comparison with other Point-of-use
Household products
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26. Thank You!
For further queries, contact:
Mr. Igor Drobot
M : +91-9600879779
E : ems@auroville.org.in
Dr. Srikanth Raghavachari
T: +91-9801983601
E: rsrikanth60@gmail.com
Mr. Ajay Garg
T : +91-9810321894
E : ajay@abdcasia,in , abdc.india@gmail.com
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