<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">cc: Tom Sponheim and Dale Andreatta</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">A lab in Kenya tested 1:1 and 2:1 parts boiling water to unheated contaminated water, mixed, cooled for 30 minutes and mixed again. Both tested negative for Total Coliform, Fecal Coliform and E Coli. <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PifTmJ6haJYV13zs0zzV61P0xFXyLSB2kS9fs6vDH6E/edit?usp=sharing">Here is the report</a>. This is very encouraging. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">The Kenyan lab recognizes the importance of these results and intends to perform more testing on its own with a goal of publishing in a trade journal. I hope to have a lab in Uganda do similar testing soon.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">The Kenyan lab also test disinfection by darkness. Five days of complete darkness failed to disinfect the water.</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Kevin</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 5:59 PM Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <<a href="mailto:crispinpigott@outlook.com">crispinpigott@outlook.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Volunteers in Technical Assistance.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>The head was Don Feil for some time recently. I am not sure if he still is. His phone mailboxes are full.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>US-based people volunteer their time to solve problems encountered by overseas people. It did a lot of positive things. They produced the first (rather defective) WBT test, with them mediating three
organisations, them, plus one in France and one in Germany. They put out a number of publications including the VITA Technology Handbook and the microfiche library of everything the Village Technology Sourcebook. Back in the early ‘80’s that was the basis
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Cecil Cook and I co-founded the Transkei Appropriate Technology Unit in 1982 and there wasn’t all that much to go on, besides the ITDG publications.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>So, there is some discussion of water storage
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0006364" target="_blank">https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0006364</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,32,32)">Conclusions<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<a name="m_-5886328678532759233_article1.front1.article-meta1.abstract1."></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,32,32)">“All five water treatment methods can remove or inactivate cercariae in water, and hence produce cercaria-free water. However,
reliable design guidelines for treating water do not exist as there are insufficient data.
<span style="background:yellow">Overall, the review found that cercariae are inactivated when storing water for 10–72 hours (depending on temperature),</span> or with chlorination values of 3–30 mg-min/l. UV fluences between 3–60 mJ/cm<sup>2</sup> may
significantly damage or kill cercariae, and sand filters with 0.18–0.35 mm grain size have been shown to remove cercariae. This systematic review
<b>identified 67 studies</b> about water treatment and schistosomiasis published in the past 106 years. It highlights the many factors that influence the results of water treatment experiments, which include different water quality conditions and methods for
measuring key parameters. Variation in these factors limit comparability, and therefore currently available information is insufficient for providing complete water treatment design recommendations.”<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>I think that is information enough to start.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Stoves <<a href="mailto:stoves-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org" target="_blank">stoves-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>K McLean<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 23, 2019 5:39 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Discussion of biomass cooking stoves <<a href="mailto:stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org" target="_blank">stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Stoves] Water Disinfection - Mix Boiling Water and Unheated Water to Pasteurize<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">I searched for a couple hours and found nothing. I'll keep trying. What is VITA?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I support your support to support those who have nothing. Better is something.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is it possible that VITA has done work on this?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It is so essential that it seems unlikely there is no work on it. It is not something I follow closely.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Perhaps a brief search will turn up someone who knows someone who knows.
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just a good method that can be quickly disseminated. Let's not let the perfect be the enemy of the good.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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