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Cuzco (Agenzia Fides) – With the help of a German charity, the Servants (Siervas) of Christ the Priest, who run “Uñacha”, the children's home in the Quiquijana district, province of Quispicachi, in Cuzco, thanks to the German organisation Kinderhilfe, has been given a recent invention of the University of Kassel, Germany, called “the backpack of water”. This is a water purifier or filter, considered a technological miracle because it uses no electricity or chemicals to work, and can purify about 1,200 litres of water per day.
According to the statement issued by the Peruvian Episcopal Conference to Fides, Dr Heinz Gravenkötter, representative of the German institution, said that the equipment is not yet for sale and the first models went to Chile, Pakistan, Vietnam, India, Haiti, Taiwan, Kenya and Bolivia, and now they will go to Peru, in Quiquijana. During a trial, 20 litres of water drawn from a muddy river were poured into the device, and within seconds there was crystal clear water, 99% of which is potable water and has a pleasant taste. This device is ideal for areas without access to drinking water or which are affected by some environmental disaster. This new invention will allow the religious sisters to meet their demands for drinking water for over 1,800 children attending from their children's home. (CE) (Agenzia Fides, 19/02/2011)
