A low-cost, portable, easy-to-use water treatment device
The ION is a small, portable point-of-use (POU) water treatment device that kills 99% of waterborne bacteria, and has been proven effective is preventing and eliminating gastrointestinal problems and diarrheal disease.
The World Water Crisis
Contaminated Water Kills
Humanity is witnessing the greatest threat to it’s existence:
A rapidly shrinking supply of fresh, safe drinking water.
~2 billion people lack safe drinking water
3.5 million people die annually from waterborne disease
Mortality is highest in children under 5 years old
Laotian children walking to a river for drinking water.
“In the past two decades, the number of natural disasters has quadrupled. Over the same period, the number of people affected has increased from approximately 174 million to an average of more than 250 million a year. Poor communities are the hardest hit; it is the world’s poorest people who are often forced to live in marginal areas and have few resources to withstand disasters.”
Oxfam America Fact Sheet
