UNICEF: Ceramic Filters Improve Water Quality in Myanmar

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Added: 03-Oct-07

YANGON, Myanmar, 28 August 2007 -- "I am not the only one who prefers to drink water from the tap of the blue bucket," says Ma Eh Wah, a mother of two children who lives in A Pyin The Phyu village in Yangon, the capital of Myanmar.

The Happy Family Water System is part of an ongoing project started last year by UNICEF and a local non-governmental organization, the Community Development Association.

The project has brought appropriate water purification technology to the household level. A factory in Yangon has produced more than 3,000 ceramic water filters that have been distributed to villages and schools in places such as A Pyin The Phyu, where surface water is used as a major water source.

To read the full story, visit: http://www.unicef.org/wes/myanmar_40738.html