Indian Ocean tsunami
December 26th. 2004. It is now believed that some 214,000 may have perished.
When the certainty of further loss of life from contaminated water in the following weeks became apparent, Waterlog donated a complete production run of hand operated watermakers 17 days after the event occurred. These machines were made specifically for Humanitarian relief and to a one-off production run specification with no cosmetic finesse - i.e., they were not polished, nor had any ergonomic features and cannot be used on a yacht. They are based on the Waterlog 200 model. The company is indebted to everyone involved who gave their labour and time for free to produce these consignments. We are also indebted to many of our raw material suppliers who supported us by providing quantities of raw material, without charge, for the endeavor.
Images courtesy of Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Pasadena.
The company also acknowledges the generosity of those private individuals from the USA, Europe and Australia who purchased watermakers to donate on their own behalf and made their own shipping arrangements. Waterlog provided these privately purchased units at cost price, without profit, to those donors.
Worked manually for 24 hours, one unit keeps 72 persons in safe drinking water. Bacteria, pryons and viral contamination are safely removed so, if necessary, sewage contaminated source water may be used if seawater is not available.
