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Aquascape Foundation installs rainwater harvesting system in Colombian school

05 March 2010

A team of volunteers from the Aquascape Foundation installed the 10,000 gallon RainXchange rainwater harvesting system at La Rosa de Saron school in Barranquilla, Columbia

The Aquascape Foundation paired Genieye’s Eye-Nizer water purification system with the RainXchange rainwater harvesting system. This provides the 400 school children with clean drinking water all year round, and the ability to prepare one hot meal per day
 

Rainwater runs off the La Rosa de Saron school roof and into the first sub-surface chamber where particulate matter is removed before passing through the ionization manifold via a solar-powered pump. The Genieye Eye-Nizer adds trace amounts of copper and silver ions to the water to kill bacteria and other waterborne pathogens. The sterilized water then passes into the second chamber where it’s stored before being pumped into an above ground rain barrel for easy access.
 

Ed Beaulieu, vice president of the Aquascape Foundation and chief sustainability officer for Aquascape Inc said: “Last year we paired the RainXchange System with the Genieye Eye-Nizer at a school in Ghana, Africa and had great success. This is the Foundation’s second trek to install a rainwater harvesting system for an impoverished area.”
 

 

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