The need for safe drinking water in developing countries remains one of the greatest problems in the world today. This website offers some solutions making it possible for families to become self sufficient at providing clean water.

• DIY Desalination unit

  Some rural families in developing counties drink water from wells which are sometimes too salty, and salt can not be removed by filters. We have developed a design for families to become self sufficient at desalination within their very limiting financial and material constraints.

• Biological water filter

  More than 1,000,000,000 people don’t have safe water to drink. Here is a home-made clay pot biological sand filter that people can afford. They can make their own filter with materials they already have access to.

• Listen to an audio podcast produced by the Church Mission Society (CMS) about the home-made biological water filter: