European Commission project
Life & the Environment

www.WaterWasp.com

Mosquito Control
&
Environmentally sustainable water treatment to save the planet

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Introduction	About Dengue

"Water and sanitation is one of the primary drivers of public health. I often refer to it as “Health 101”, which means that once we can secure access to clean water and to adequate sanitation facilities for all people, irrespective of the difference in their living conditions, a huge battle against all kinds of diseases will be won." Dr. Lee Jong-Wook, Director-General, World Health Organization

There are currently no effective means of disinfecting or preventing the growth of parasitic organisms in most of the drinking water available to inhabitants of developing countries. Even in Europe, contamination of drinking water is responsible for 6% of all disease episodes. Half of these are due to infections by the parasitic protozoan Cryptosporidium, which can be fatal in young children, the elderly or immuno-suppressed individuals.

Most of the world’s population has no access to a treated piped supply of water, water therefore has to be collected and held in storage containers that are often contaminated or become contaminated. This water should be boiled before use, but if suitable fuel such as firewood is not available it may be consumed in its original state which spreads disease.

The larvae of the dengue fever mosquitoes Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus larvae also breed in rain barrels and other storage containers.

Contaminated drinking water affects more than a billion individuals and 1.6 million of these people die every year from water-borne infections. Many more will suffer from disease and debilitating chronic conditions. The issues will continue to be a problem until all water supplies are filtered, chlorinated and supplied by pipe. The present need to collect rainwater in barrels and other storage containers provides abundant breeding sites for the mosquitoes that transmit dengue virus. The incidence of dengue is increasing at an exponential rate. In addition to causing millions of deaths and debilitating disease episodes in cities of developing countries, dengue also impacts on western economies by restriction of trade and travel between different countries and continents.

WaterWasp^TMrepresents novel technology that offers a solution to several very different water-based diseases without the use of chemicals or any external energy input. WaterWasp is also low cost and self maintaining autonomously solar powered floating device, rugged enough to be transported in bulk and left operating in situ for long periods, months to years

WaterWasp technology for the first time offers the potential to treat and disinfect water on a massive scale at low cost without any chemicals, side effects, adverse environmental impact or expensive infra-structure. No other technology has existed in the past or the present that has the potential to have such an impact on the health and well being on the worlds population.