Alpine Technical Services and AllChem Donate Potable Clean Water System in Mali, West Africa
May 28 2015 - 2:07PM
Business Wire
Alpine Technical Services, in partnership with AllChem
Performance Products Inc., is proud to announce the donation of a
potable clean water system to the Empower Mali foundation for
installation in the village of Dongorona in the city of
Oueléssébougou, Mali, West Africa. The system consists of a
Horizon® PTF-100 Chlorine Feeder along with 2 pails of Horizon®
90-PT Trichlor tablets for chlorination of drinking and potable
water.
Once installed into the public water supply system, the Horizon®
PTF-100 Chlorine Feeder will provide safe and clean potable water
to as many as several thousand people in Mali who otherwise would
not have access to disinfected water. This will save lives and help
prevent the spread of many diseases such as typhoid fever, cholera,
hepatitis and dysentery.
The Horizon® PTF-100 Chlorine Feeder uses Horizon® 90-PT
tablets, a safe and effective solid form of chlorine called
Trichloroisocyanurate (or Trichlor for short) that disinfects the
water. Trichlor is 100% soluble in water and carries a low Ph with
90% available chlorine content. These benefits will allow clean
operation without scale or sludge in the feeder or the water
system. Trichlor is a safe product, highly compressed into a tablet
form that keeps it from eroding until it is introduced into the
feeder, giving it a long shelf life.
Horizon® 90-PT Tablets and the Horizon PTF-100 Chlorine Feeder
are EPA registered and carry NSF-60 and NSF-61 approvals
respectively for introduction into drinking water in the United
States.
Water sprays horizontally onto the Horizon® 90-PT tablets,
producing a constant chlorine residual for delivery to the drinking
water system. This spraying action occurs only when chlorine feed
is necessary in order to minimize the loss of available chlorine.
As the tablets are sprayed, the resulting chlorine solution is
collected in a lower basin and injected directly into the water
system via a pump.
Mali is one of the poorest nations on earth. Without access to
safe water, communities are unable to take their first essential
step out of poverty. With a population of 4.9 million people, Mali
doesn’t yet have access to safe water. More than 15,000 children
die each year from dysentery and diarrhea caused by unsafe water
and poor sanitation.
Dongorona is a remote village within the city of Oueléssébougou,
located one and a half hours from the country’s capital city.
Empower Mali is currently building a middle school in this village
to alleviate the education challenge. This clean water solution
will better the lives of the 1,300 families in this area and allow
the children and people in the village to lead longer and healthier
lives.
About Alpine Technical Services
Operating as a privately-held company in Midvale, Utah, ATS
provides custom safety and water treatment solutions. ATS is a
leading provider of high-end safety showers for industrial settings
where hazardous chemicals exist. ATS is introducing “bundles” that
include chemicals, equipment and safety showers as a complete
solution to its clients. In addition, the company is currently
expanding its focus to address water purification for rural
municipalities, in particular. In all, the company is dedicated to
providing an increasingly larger spectrum of technology and
bioscience solutions to answer the world’s needs for cleaner water,
safer manufacturing environments, and more effective solutions
towards the creation of a safer environment and better world.
About Empower Mali
Empower Mali (www.empowermali.org) was established to work
directly with citizens and local leaders in Mali to improve access
to education, healthcare and basic amenities like water. Empower
Mali believes that the citizens and communities of Mali have the
right to become self-reliant, and works to form a close partnership
with the citizens of Mali and the Malian government, believing that
no one knows better how to resolve the community needs than the
community’s citizens and leaders.
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Alpine Technical ServicesRichard Allred, 801-255-5336President
and CEOricharda@alpinetech.uswww.alpinetech.usorEmpower
Maliinfo@empowermali.orgwww.empowermali.org