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TESTING OVERVIEW The longest history and largest application of this product to date, is in remote areas of the Dominican Republic. The Medical Mission of the Diocese of Orlando alone reports a 92% reduction in infant mortality due to the application of the Mission System and how that application affects the hygiene of the villagers. In the summer of 2000, Dr. Pedro Bernal, Professor and Chairman of the Chemistry Department at Rollins College in conjunction with Dr. Quick and the Centers for Disease Control started a scientific study of the application and performance of this system on completely new villages in a very controlled setting. This field study was funded in part by Stephen Dann, the patent holder and president of Eagle Spring Filtration, along with Mr. Randolph Hearst, The Hearst Foundation, Associated Colleges of the South and Emery University. The study was implemented at the village of El Venu in the Dominican Republic. Twenty-five units were placed with families where a controlled study could take place. All of the water sources were found to contain high levels (by WHO standards) of microbiological contamination (300 to 800 colonies). The units and families were monitored and by the end of the second round of testing, all systems were producing water that presented little or no risk to the consumer. Specifically 85% of all units produced in the “No Risk” category of zero colonies and the balance in the “Little Risk” category of one to ten colonies. It is important to understand that the World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes that no fecal colonies is an unrealistic parameter for untreated sources. The truly important question is not how many colonies are acceptable, but how many colonies people can safely consume. It is a question that has been the subject of a number of studies. The following categories have emerged from the available evidence and are now accepted by the World Health Organization:
These results show, that
the Mission Filter can turn highly contaminated water, not fit for
human consumption, into water that presents little or no risk to the
user and effect major changes in mortality rates from microbiologically
contaminated drinking water. Additionally, these results indicate
that not only is the Mission Filter an effective system for a water
problem in remote third world areas, but it confirms its use as an
emergency water system as well. The current worldwide drinking water
problem could be immediately impacted by a program and organization
that would successfully introduce them.
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