Potters For Peace
Potters for Peace is a uniquie organisation devoted to socially responsible development and grass roots accompaniment among potters. Founded in Nicaragua in 1986, the organisation works to promote it's pioneering Ceramic Water filter projects worlwide, teaching the fabrication of a low-cost water filter. To help bring clean, potable water to those who need it most. Women and children, especialy girls, bear the burden of time spent collecting and transporting water, meaning less time available for activites such as school, essential to escaping the trap of extreme poverty.
The ultimate objective of the Ceramic Water Filter project is to meet this urgent demand for safe water in rural and marginalized communities and provide employment for local potters.
The Filter is a simple, pressed bucket shape, made with a mixture of local terra-cotta clay and sawdust or other combustible, such as rice husks. The simplest press utilizes a hand-operated hydraulic truck jack and two-piece aluminium mould. The combustible ingredient, which has been milled and screened, burns out in the firing leaving a network of fine pores. After firing the filter is coated with colloidal silver. This combination of fine pore size and the bactericidal properties of colloidal silver produce and effective filter. For use the fired, treated filter element is placed in a five gallon plastic or ceramic receptacle with a lid and faucet.
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