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WaterPure International Offers AWGs to Fight Hydrological Poverty; Suggests UN Test AWGs in Global Regions Suffering Water Shortages

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WaterPure International, Inc. (OTCBB:WPUR) management team proposes its Atmospheric Water Generators (AWGs) be used in the fight against hydrological poverty. Worldwatch Institute describes hydrological poverty as the effect of population growth on water-short countries sentencing millions of people to water-shortage poverty difficult to escape. WaterPure suggests that the United Nations should test some AWGs in those global regions suffering the most from water shortages and water rationing. AWGs from WaterPure are water-cooler type devices that extract moisture from the atmosphere through a condensation process transforming the moisture into three to five gallons of absolutely pure chilled or heated healthy drinking water each day

“Hydrological poverty is very real in today’s world. I have instructed my team to contact the U.N. and offer to set AWGs in water-short regions to provide drinking water for the townspeople. A single AWG unit should generate more than enough pure clean drinking water for one person. When a number of AWGs are used, they can be expected to further help the situation,” notes Paul Lipschutz, Chairman of WaterPure International.

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The WaterPure Atmospheric Water Generator extracts moisture from the atmosphere through a condensation process and transforms it into absolutely pure, healthy drinking water. Multiple air and water filtration systems remove particulate matter smaller than .01 microns. Utilizing high intensity UV (ultra violet), it eliminates any microorganisms including bacteria and viruses. Operating on standard 110v power in the USA, it is extremely efficient and uses a minimal amount of energy to produce water. Depending on local electricity costs, a gallon of WaterPure water costs about 8 cents to produce. The unit requires no plumbing, water lines, or pipes and is easily installed. Driven by a microcomputer control system, it will stop generating water when full. The WaterPure purification system employs special filters to remove any unpleasant tastes or odor that may be present in the air. The result is fresh and delicious drinking water in its purest form.

About WaterPure International

WaterPure International, Inc. markets water production and treatment products in the USA and abroad. The Company's principal line of products includes several models of Atmospheric Water Generators, devices that produce water from the humidity present in the air. For more information, visit www.waterpureinternational.com.

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“All people need and deserve access to safe and pure water.”
— Paul Lipschutz, Chairman of the Board, WaterPure International, Inc.

A recent United Nations report stated that more than 1.4 billion people lack access to safe drinking water globally and in excess of 3 million people die each year from water borne diseases. WaterPure International, Inc. is dedicated to providing economical, safe, pure, drinking water to consumers all around the globe. We specialize in seeking leading edge technologies to deliver the highest degree of drinking water purity and satisfaction possible for the home, office, and commercial markets. Recognizing bottled water, desalinization or chemical treatment of water as not being practically or economically viable, WaterPure International has brought to the global market a device that produces pure, safe drinking water right from the air we breathe. WaterPure International’s family of WaterPure™ Atmospheric Water Generators now make pure, safe drinking water available anywhere in the world at a fraction of the cost of other water sourcing alternatives. With devices capable of producing from one to five thousand gallons of water daily, safe, pure drinking water can now be made available in places where none has existed before. In pursuit of our belief that “all people need and deserve access to safe and pure water” we continue to seek newer and more advanced technologies to make this goal a reality.

Consumers want the purest drinking water possible. While purity is defined in various terms where drinking water is concerned, distilled water is generally considered the truest form of pure water. Kierdan Kelly, a Consultant with the Boston Consulting Group in the area of Chemistry stated in a message posted in MadSci Network: Chemistry that “Distilled water is water that has been recondensed from steam. Water is heated to boiling and the water vapor (steam) is collected and condensed back into a pure liquid. Any impurities like minerals, stay as a residue in the original liquid, separate from the distilled water. Distilled water is probably considered the most pure.” The WaterPure™ harvesting methodology closely approximates that of distillation and when combined with the additional steps of purification through various filtration and antibacterial treatments, produces a quality of water closest to that of distilled.

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Current Headlines Return to News & Community Home WaterPure International Proposes U.S. Military Utilize Atmospheric Water Generators To Create Own Water For Troops 4/4/2008 Fort Lauderdale, FL - WaterPure International, Inc. proposes U.S. military commands reconsider flying in millions of bottles of water to the troops and instead create their own water using Atmospheric Water Generators (AWGs). An infantry squad encamped in a remote area can plug an AWG into a portable generator, produce three to five gallons of pure, safe, fresh, delicious drinking water per day from the air around it, and no longer be totally dependent upon having enough cases of drinking water on hand. The 93 lb. AWG from WaterPure International is approximately the same size as a typical water cooler but does not require the inverted five gallon bottle. "Based on published reports, it seems as if everyone in Iraq is dependent on the availability of bottled water. No one drinks the tap water; it is considered contaminated and has high salinity. Everyone relies on bottled water. It makes sense to have some alternatives just in case there are delays logistically. Instead of beingrelying on the availability of such a critical resource, we are suggesting commanders use our AWGs as the pure, safe, fresh, delicious drinking water option for the ground troops," notes Paul Lipschutz, Chairman of the Board, WaterPure International, Inc. SOURCE: WaterPure International, Inc. Bottled Water: Pure Drink or Pure Hype? While bottled water marketing conveys images of purity, inadequate regulations offer no assurance. [En Español] Sales of bottled water in this country have exploded in recent years, largely as a result of a public perception of purity driven by advertisements and packaging labels featuring pristine glaciers and crystal-clear mountain springs. But bottled water sold in the United States is not necessarily cleaner or safer than most tap water, according to a four-year scientific study recently made public by NRDC. NRDC's study included testing of more than 1,000 bottles of 103 brands of bottled water. While most of the tested waters were found to be of high quality, some brands were contaminated: about one-third of the waters tested contained levels of contamination -- including synthetic organic chemicals, bacteria, and arsenic -- in at least one sample that exceeded allowable limits under either state or bottled water industry standards or guidelines. A key NRDC finding is that bottled water regulations are inadequate to assure consumers of either purity or safety, although both the federal government and the states have bottled water safety programs. At the national level, the Food and Drug Administration is responsible for bottled water safety, but the FDA's rules completely exempt waters that are packaged and sold within the same state, which account for between 60 and 70 percent of all bottled water sold in the United States (roughly one out of five states don't regulate these waters either). The FDA also exempts carbonated water and seltzer, and fewer than half of the states require carbonated waters to meet their own bottled water standards. Even when bottled waters are covered by the FDA's rules, they are subject to less rigorous testing and purity standards than those which apply to city tap water (see chart below). For example, bottled water is required to be tested less frequently than city tap water for bacteria and chemical contaminants. In addition, bottled water rules allow for some contamination by E. coli or fecal coliform (which indicate possible contamination with fecal matter), contrary to tap water rules, which prohibit any confirmed contamination with these bacteria. Similarly, there are no requirements for bottled water to be disinfected or tested for parasites such as cryptosporidium or giardia, unlike the rules for big city tap water systems that use surface water sources. This leaves open the possibility that some bottled water may present a health threat to people with weakened immune systems, such as the frail elderly, some infants, transplant or cancer patients, or people with HIV/AIDS. Some Key Differences Between EPA Tap Water and FDA Bottled Water Rules Water Type Dis-infection Required? Confirmed E. Coli & Fecal Coliform Banned? Testing Frequency for Bacteria Must Filter to Remove Pathogens, or Have Strictly Protected Source? Must Test for Crypto-sporidium, Giardia, Viruses? Testing Frequency for Most Synthetic Organic Chemicals Bottled Water No No 1/week No No 1/year Carbonated or Seltzer Water No No None No No None Big City Tap Water (using surface water) Yes Yes Hundreds/ month Yes Yes 1/quarter (limited waivers available if clean source) See Table 1 of NRDC's bottled water report for further comparisons and explanations. Ironically, public concern about tap water quality is at least partly responsible for the growth in bottled water sales, which have tripled in the past 10 years. This bonanza is also fueled by marketing designed to convince the public of bottled water's purity and safety, marketing so successful that people spend from 240 to over 10,000 times more per gallon for bottled water than they typically do for tap water. In fact, about one-fourth of bottled water is actually bottled tap water, according to government and industry estimates (some estimates go as high as 40 percent). And FDA rules allow bottlers to call their product "spring water" even though it may be brought to the surface using a pumped well, and it may be treated with chemicals. But the actual source of water is not always made clear -- some bottled water marketing is misleading, implying the water comes from pristine sources when it does not. In 1995, the FDA issued labeling rules to prevent misleading claims, but while the rules do prohibit some of the most deceptive labeling practices, they have not eliminated the problem. Some examples of interesting labels NRDC observed include: "Spring Water" (with a picture of a lake surrounded by mountains on the label) -- Was actually from an industrial parking lot next to a hazardous waste site. Alasika™ -- "Alaska Premium Glacier Drinking Water: Pure Glacier Water From the Last Unpolluted Frontier, Bacteria Free" -- Apparently came from a public water supply. This label has since been changed after FDA intervention. Vals Water -- "Known to Generations in France for its Purity and Agreeable Contribution to Health . . . Reputed to Help Restore Energy, Vitality, and Combat Fatigue" -- The International Bottled Water Association voluntary code prohibits health claims, but some bottlers still make such claims. NRDC makes the following recommendations for improving bottled water safety precautions: The FDA should set strict limits for contaminants of concern in bottled water. The FDA's rules should apply to all bottled water distributed nationally or within a state, carbonated or not, and bottled water standards must be made at least as strict as those applicable to city tap water supplies. Water bottlers should be required to disclose water source, treatments and other key information as is now required of tap water systems. A penny-per-bottle fee should be initiated on bottled water to fund testing, regulatory programs, and enforcement at both state and national levels. State bottled water programs should be subject to federal review. Ultimately, however, while Americans who choose to buy bottled water deserve the assurance that it is safe, the long-term solution to our drinking water problems is to ensure that safe, clean, good-tasting drinking water comes from our taps. Those who are particularly concerned about the quality of their tap water can take action by 1) calling their state drinking water program or the EPA Safe Drinking Water Hotline (800 426-4791) for a list of state certified labs; and 2) purchasing filters certified by NSF International (800 NSF-MARK) to remove the contaminants of special concern to the consumer (NSF certification is not, however, a complete guarantee of safety). Based on BOTTLED WATER: Pure Drink or Pure Hype? a March 1999 report by the Natural Resources Defense Council (which includes a chart of our test results). See also the bottled water FAQ. last revised 4.29.99

Iraq is undergoing a cholera epidemic

Alive in Baghdad: Sewage Problems Persist in East Baghdad

Thursday March 27th, 2008

We show this segment courtesy of www.aliveinbaghdad.org. Alive in Baghdad employs Iraqi journalists to produce video packages each week about a variety of topics on daily life in Iraq.

Baghdad, Iraq - Shama’iya - The Shama’iya district is in far east Baghdad, although considered a part of the capital, the sprawling metropolis is perhaps more accurately seen as a series of boroughs than one contiguous city. Shama’iya is a relatively new district, and, strangely in the crisis-ridden capital, has been relatively calm since the beginning of the invasion. Shama’iya is the home of a large mental hospital, and perhaps the only noteworthy element of the district for many Baghdadis.

To Shama’iya residents, the most noteworthy element is the ever-present sewage water polluting the streets, filling some roads nearly completely. Although you might not know it on first glance, Shama’iya is not simply a neighborhood of the poor and indigent, forgotten by the capital and municipal government. Shama’iya is the home of doctors, engineers, and journalists, as well as more “mundane” peoples.

Iraq is undergoing a cholera epidemic, exacerbated by the failing sewer system in the capital and excess of stagnant sewage polluting Baghdad and much of the rest of the country. While security may be improving, there seems to be little movement to improve access to basic necessities such as clean water and electricity.

Despite being a calm district, which its residents claim has seen no major disasters, terrorist attacks, or other traumatic events, the Baghdad and 9th April Municipalities claim they cannot assist the residents in repairing the broken sewer system due to security concerns. The residents themselves told Alive in Baghdad the issues are due more to corruption and waste than any actual security issues at hand. While the government fails to rebuild even the calm districts, its left to question how more restive areas can ever hope to get back on their feet.

URUK NET: Iraq: the country of two rivers without water

Note; until they solve "the problem" of du in the "region", there is little, if any hope, of a water pipeline, or any other pipeline being built in the region, guyz, let alone a DAM. the people be damned. Come helliburton or low watah.

If Turkey is a Good Little Boy, it will get nice, big, fat ca$h and con$truction contract$, eh? How charming.

And this is the shape of US EMPIRE things to come: the commoditization of WATER. It's in pipes, thus no longer free standing and THUS no law need apply.

Can you spell

G - E - N - O - C - I - D - E

and

D - I - C - K C - H - E - N - E - Y ?

and

U - S M - i - l - i - t - a - r - y b - a - s - e - s

and

H - a - l - l - i - b - u - r - t - o - n ????

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Iraq: the country of two rivers without water

Domenico Guglielmi

November 30, 2007 Since the American invasion, the hydration system in Iraq, the richest country in water in the Middle East, has been completely devastated. The lack of concrete reconstruction projects by the government and the difficulty of humanitarian organisations to intervene in an effective way have caused hydration and humanitarian emergencies which are scarcely manageable. To this situation are added the issues surrounding the risk of the eventual collapse of the country's largest dam. Domenico Guglielmi Equilibri.net (30 November 2007) The Mosul Dam: between real risk and unfounded alarmism Currently the dam at Mosul supplies drinking water and irrigation to the whole surrounding region and to the valley as far as Baghdad, generating 300MW of electrical energy to the region. According to American experts from the US Army Corps of Engineers, the dam could be on the verge of collapse, creating a disaster of huge proportions, be it in terms of human lives (a possible 500,000 victims are spoken of together with the total flooding of Mosul with its 1.7 million inhabitants) or be it in terms of the country's agriculture. The pressure that would be generated by the upstream waters could create a downstream wave of about 20 metres in height whose impact would hit Baghdad (400km to the South). Worries have been growing since May, when following the inspection by the US Special Inspector General for Iraqi Construction (SIGIR), a letter was sent to President Nuri al-Maliki from American Ambassador in Iraq, Ryan Crocker and General David Petraeus. According to experts the damage would be fundamentally due to the strong erosion of the chalky ground on which the very dam was built in 1984. Since the beginning of its construction, the Iraqi authorities have carried out maintenance works, injecting liquid mortar in order to eliminate the infiltration of the subsoil (more than 200 tonnes of mortar, yearly since 1990, have been used). In light of the American report has come the reaction of the Iraqi government and of the Special Inspector for the Reconstruction of Iraq, Stuart Bowen, who have declared that the danger of collapse isn't imminent. Even the spokesman for the Ministry of Hydration Resources, Ali al-Dabbagh has strongly confirmed that the American report is a fraud and that the installations are constantly monitored, underlining that the problems at the core have always been there and that they are under control, with a general structure which is in good order. The Minister of Hydration Resources, Latif Rashid has already declared that from 2008, they will carry out works to encase the core in a sack which won't allow for any possibility of infiltration. The Association of Iraqi Muslim Scholars (AMS) attributes the responsibility both to the Americans and the Government for the mal-management of the dam and to the insufficient funds designated for its maintenance ($27million). For some time already, before the declaration over the possibility of imminent collapse, many Iraqi and international associations denounced the mal-management of works to the dam on the part of American SIGIR, even raising the suspicion that the centre of the dam may have been voluntarily damaged. In recent months, it has emerged how a Turkish company who had taken a contract for $640,000 for the construction of bins intended for the cement with which to reinforce the dam, technically they badly constructed them, so that they were never used. The Government's underground goings-on and the interventions by humanitarian organisations The majority of the water in Iraq is distributed with tankers which depart in the morning from the potholes and distribute water for the remainder of the day. In Falluja for example, the tankers set out to re-fill the potholes of Abu Ghraib and Al Asrakhia, managing to answer to the demand of almost 75% of the city. Between August and September, UNICEF extended the water distribution operations, establishing new sources above all for Baghdad. It is estimated that 38.5 million litres of water are distributed to various parts of the capital, covering hospitals, schools and evacuee centres for a total of 120,000 people. Seventeen hydration and sewage installations have been repaired by the governing bodies of Wasit, Kirkuk, Basra and Kerbala, while in Thiqar, 30,000 people have benefited from the reparation of three sewage networks, all interventions, which due to scarce security, require many months to reach a stage of completion. Humanitarian organisations are in the process of training numerous engineering experts in the field of hydration infrastructure and they are involved in the reparation of electricity centres which, in many cases, allow access to drinking water (such as in the case of the area of Al-Shua'iba in the city of Basra). Among the projects is that being led by UNICEF and UNOPS, for the construction of an electricity centre necessary for the functioning of purification systems in Sharq Dijala, which would carry drinking water to 2.7 million inhabitants in the Western part of Baghdad. An investment of $5.6 million is predicted but funds are scarce. The same UNICEF has been unable to answer to the request of the government for the provision of chemicals necessary for the treatment of water, due to the same lack of funds. The Polish Humanitarian Organisation (PHO) launched a project to help improve the quality of water in the region of Babele. The water purification installations are the only sources of drinking water in the city. In 2006, seven purifiers were repaired and in July 2007, thanks to financing from the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the PHO began the construction of new water purification systems which will produce 50 cubed metres of clean water. The project sets out the construction of water pipes which will carry drinking water to the families in the village of Saied Esmail in the region of Ablu Garak. If on the one hand, the humanitarian organisations are very active, on the other the lack of intervention by the government authorities within the territory is evident. It is all in the hands of sporadic projects carried out by humanitarian organisations, which between lack of funding, scarce security in the intervention zones and the vastness of the crisis, fail to confront the problem effectively. The reality is that despite the assurances of the Ministry of hydration resources, the country's hydration system is a long way off being re-established. Canals, dams, purifiers, desalination installations, pumping stations and installations for the treatment of sewage are almost completely unusable. Water, between petroleum and gas The re-construction of the Iraqi hydration system depends on the geopolitical choices of the United States and its allies, above all as regards the northern Iraq (provinces of Ninive and Dahuk), an area from which gas and petroleum should flow towards Turkey and therefore, towards Europe, with the intention of emancipating itself from dependence on Russian hydrocarbon. This project should lead, in the long run to the substitution of Russian hydrocarbons with those from Iraq. This strategy is defined by many analysts as the "balkanization of Iraq", setting out the division of resources from the north between the large, Western multinationals. To this proposal, the authorities of the autonomous Kurdish region continue to sign new contracts for the exploitation of gas and petroleum with other countries. The last seven regard the areas of Akre-Bijil and Shaikan near the dam of Mosul (whose maintenance is entrusted to this same authority). Other blocks (about 24) were assigned to the province of Dahuk with unspecified localities (which could include the areas eventually flooded by the downstream wave and upstream to the artificial lake). The eventual breakage of the dam would force almost a million people to move away from these territories (currently set aside for agricultural use), generating a vast wave of refugees towards Syria. Once Iraq loses its hydration resources derived from the dam, Turkey will have total control over Iraqi water procurement through the construction of a new dam for $1.7 billion on the Tigris, where the river flows towards Iraq (the old "Ilisu" project, financed by the Societe Generale SA, German, Swiss and Austrian credit companies, which once completed, will produce 3800 Giga-watts of energy hourly, that is to say, 2.4% of current Turkish production). In this way, Iraq would lose a large part of its drinking water and it would see the definitive drying up of the wetlands of Shatt el-Arab. The results will be the eventual desertification of every type of agriculture: in the north due to the overflowing of the dam and in the south, due to the desertification of the wetlands. All of this is despite the United Nations Convention in 1997 over the "fair distribution of the water of the commercial rivers". However, despite this, in March 2007, Iraq, Syria and Turkey signed a protocol of agreement over the common management of the waters of the Tigris and of the Euphrates. The behaviour of the American authorities in these months would seem to confirm their global strategy. The United States have invested only $2.1bn into the reconstruction of the water system (both for drinking water and the sewage system), to answer to a need of $14bn. According to Iraqi sources, $530 million would have been spent on hydration infrastructure. They also propose as a solution the construction of a dam at Badush, which however wouldn't be sufficient to function as a valve in the case of the breakage of the dam at Mosul and it would cost $300million to construct, which the Iraqi Government doesn't want to undertake. This is without considering the fact that in order to avoid that the dam is constructed on unsuitable ground, as happened with the dam in Mosul, geological inspections which would take years of work would be required. Conclusion Beyond some sporadic intervention, the reconstruction of the Iraqi water system is closely connected with the geopolitical strategies of the big powers present in the region. The management of the works regarding the dam in Mosul, in a precarious area of the Middle East , will represent an important pawn for the future assets of the region. That which seems obvious is that Iraq is devastated, impoverished not only of energy resources but also of water resources. It is the battle for control over water that will guarantee power status in the Middle East and as in Israel, water is controlled between the Palestinian Authority and Jordan, Turkey could control this towards Syria and Iraq. Translation by Megan Ball

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