Water Purification to provide clean water in PNG

Diagram showing the process of purifying the water

By FIDELIS SUKINA

A new project will soon be introduced in Papua New Guinea to help in providing clean and purified water for consumption.

Ela Motors through its Yamaha brand did a presentation on Friday at the crown plaza in Port Moresby to show their water filtration system the “Yamaha Clean Water Supply System” the presentation was to gain favor with representatives from various groups and the Government to partner in the project

The Yamaha clean water supply system is a water purifying system that uses a sand filtration method and can produce up to 8, 000 liters of water per day for drinking

Chief Operating officer of Ela Motors Takeshi Abe said the product was ideal for communities in the rural areas.

“The product is ideal to be set up at hospitals, schools and rural villages to help with clean drinking water and improve the standard of living through health education, reduce the labor load in clean water transportation, and promote self government and community development” Mr Abe said

Clean water group manager for the Yamaha motor company Tatsumi Muneyasu said the water project has already been a success in other countries and was a project that is for local ownership and participation.

“The project has already been established in Indonesia Vietnam Senegal and other countries and has good results it’s cost effective with 24 hour water supply and comes with a one year warranty and maintenance” Mr Muneyasu said

Takeshi Abe said the total estimated cost of the project to be set up in PNG would cost K250, 000 he also said that Proposals were welcome at Ela Motors Badli in Port Moresby for anyone interested the project in their area

“It would cost K250, 000 for the project as an estimated cost but if there is no power supply for the equipment we would need extra K250, 000 to set up a Solar System to power it” Mr Abe said

He added that the project would perform well in areas where there were rivers and lakes with no activity upstream like factories that could pollute the water causing problems to the filtration process