tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4438715999678300842024-03-13T02:27:32.539-07:00Water For HumansStanton Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16325752193487737660noreply@blogger.comBlogger246125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443871599967830084.post-65226109728126442682018-07-18T07:31:00.001-07:002018-07-18T08:18:50.790-07:00Water for Humans Gazette - July 2018 <center style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">
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<big style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><big><span style="color: #365f91;">Water for Humans Gazette - July 2018 </span><br /><br /><span style="color: blue;">La Mazateca GEN2.1 (cookstove) Update: </span><br /><br /><span style="color: blue;">Patent Filed in Mexico</span></big></big><br />
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Patent application filed on 20 June! This has been a long time in coming. What we thought would be a 9-month process has turned into a 2.5-year long adventure. We can now publically show and talk about the new <i>"<span style="color: #0070c0;">La Mazateca Gen2.1</span>"</i> design. </div>
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Brand new Gen2.1 stove set up at our Board Chairman's (Charlie's) house</center>
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Fred's CAD model</center>
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In 2014 we received an award from the Licensing Executive Society International in Geneva, Switzerland, for our work on innovating, culturally appropriate technology solutions. From that award the law firm of Becerril, Coca & Becerril, S.C. (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://cts.vresp.com/c/?WaterforHumans/03ef66c54e/b1e3fd5577/705dd697fd&source=gmail&ust=1532005461354000&usg=AFQjCNG-cG2OvyuoLc215RjhmUn95s1ptw" href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?WaterforHumans/03ef66c54e/b1e3fd5577/705dd697fd" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.bcb.com.mx/</a>) in Mexico City has been providing us with pro-bono intellectual property representation. On June 20 they filed our patent application in Mexico. We want to thank Hector Elias Chagoya Cortes and Mariana González for their hard work in guiding us through and completing the process. We also must again thank Fred Nopwaskey for his continued support and his work to produce all the required drawings and figures of the design.<br />
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Because of NAFTA and the fact that we are a nonprofit, the patent filing fees were reduced by over 50%. The patent is for the molds and the construction process of making "<span style="color: #0070c0;">La Mazateca Gen2.1</span>". This patent protection will allow us to obtain 'no bid' contracts from the Mexican government to take <span style="color: #0070c0;">La Mazateca</span> to other parts of Mexico. In addition, the protections will enable us to license the technology with other NGO's and companies to provide potential revenue streams. The one challenge we now face is that this starts "the clock ticking". We now have six months to file for protections in other countries.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #0070c0;">La Mazateca Gen2.1</span></i> is ready. The heart of the innovation is that the Gen2.1 is molded using vacuumed formed ABS (thermoplastic) molding tools. Fred Nopwaskey and Steve Gary have taken our basic idea and turned it into the "real thing". Because of the need to test and verify the design, the ABS molds are made at Sound Manufacturing in Kent, WA. Now that the design has been verified and the initial eight mold sets are complete, they are finally ready to ship to Mexico. </div>
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Mold sets with plywood forms</center>
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We spent several days packing up the eights sets of ABS molds for shipping to Mexico. Our challenge was to safely pack the molds in the most efficient manner to minimize the volume. It took us a couple of days but we were able to pack everything onto two pallets (one tall and one short). This was a HUGE improvement from our estimate of three or four pallets.</div>
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Final pallets</center>
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A longtime volunteer, Michael Sumner (lives in both Mexico City and US), has been leading the shipping logistics effort. Like many tasks, this has turned into a much more complex one. When we first started to work on this, we got bids for the shipping from $7K to $1,200, plus the customs and border fees. We ran head long into what seemed like an insurmountable wall. In order to get the shipment across the border, we need a "Registered Importer" to receive the goods on the Mexican side. This has turned into a quagmire. The first option, proposed by several of the logistics companies, was to hire a "comercializadora". This is a company that will "act as a Registered Importer" for a fee. The potential fees for this service are as much as the shipping! Thus, we needed a better solution. We then turned to our network in Mexico to try to find a solution. We leveraged our Mexico City Rotary contacts and with the help of Fausto de Anda E. we solved several parts of the puzzle (shipping logistics and temporary warehouse), but the Registered Importer still eluded us. Finally, Michael has found a Registered Importer that will receive our shipment. We are now receiving and reviewing the final bids for the shipping and logistics. Our hope is to have the molds on "the truck" next week and arrive in Mexico City 6 - <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1230889103" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">10 days later</span></span>.</div>
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With the help of Ulisis, Jose (a colleague of his) and Michael, we are rounding up all the supplies we need and the logistics of shipping them to the three regions for the upcoming workshops. Ulisis is a longtime colleague who is ex-staff of The Hunger Project, and he was with us for the first Gen1 workshop training several years ago. Ulisis has secured a company to cut and build the plywood molding tools. And with the help of Jose they have been able to secure suppliers for all the other required materials.</div>
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Due to the unprecedented violence in Mexico prior to the elections (national, state and local) held on July 1st, <i>The Hunger Project - Mexico</i>(the NGO setting up the workshops) recommended that we postpone the workshops that we were planning to start in early July. The workshops now will be in September and early October. We have been using this delay to our advantage to lower the costs and improve the construction process. We are also enhancing the construction manual. One of the most costly parts of the stove is the "castable refractory" (ceramic like cement mixture). With the delay, we have developed a "homemade" castable refractory that costs 50+% less than our planned commercially made products. We have found a much lower cost alternative to the expanded perlite and by changing the molding process, the parts do not require extra finishing steps. In addition, with the help of Fred (CAD) we have further reduced the cost of the supporting structure and simplified the final assembly process.<br />
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There will be three workshops starting in September. The largest one will be in Chiapas where stove builders from Chiapas, Oaxaca and San Luis Potosí will be introduced to the Gen2.1 stove building process and will then proceed to build 8 stoves in Chiapas. The stoves builders from Oaxaca and San Luis Potosí will then return to their home states and begin constructing stoves there. In total they will build 25 stoves in Chaipas, 15 in Oaxaca and 10 in San Luis Potosí over the following weeks. Rick and Stan will travel to each of those states to clear up any remaining questions and to bring the remaining stove builders in each state up to speed.</div>
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In January we launched our new website, using a WordPress platform. A huge THANK YOU to Ralph Beckett, and all our volunteers, who made this happen. Ralph did a lot of the heavy lifting and we appreciate the many hours of work he dedicated to this effort. The new website is more secure and easier to keep up to date. And, it will be easier for us to find experienced WordPress volunteers in the future to help us manage our web presence.</div>
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<span style="color: blue;">SalesForce</span><br />
We have several new volunteers: Andrew Chase, David Alevy, Neil Penso, Palak Shah, to manage and update our Salesforce CRM database. They are fast learners and have experience with the nonprofit version which is extremely helpful since it is very different from the "selling version". They are hard at work making the database more useful and bug-free.</div>
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Charlie (Board Chairman) has a La Mazateca Gen2.1 cookstove in his backyard. He and Sarah will be hosting fundraising events in their home and showing off La Mazateca Gen2.1 in the process. We also want to welcome Michael P. Kraft as our newest board member. Michael has been part of our volunteer community supporting us with his marketing expertise.</div>
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<span style="color: blue;">La Mazateca Gen 2.1 Cookstove Open House Launch Party<br />in NE Seattle</span></center>
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<span style="color: blue;">Sunday, March 18<sup>th</sup> Open House <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1395612585" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">1-5 PM</span></span><br />13714 37<sup>th</sup> Ave NE<br />Seattle, WA 98125</span></center>
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The new and improved La Mazateca Gen2.1 cookstove is ready for production.<br /></center>
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Current Gen1 stove builders in Southern Mexico are super excited about the upcoming July workshops to learn how to build and maintain the new stoves.<br /><br />Please join us for an <span style="color: blue;"><big>open house</big></span> to celebrate this exciting news from <b><big><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1395612586" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">1 - 5 PM</span></span> on Sunday, March 18<sup>th</sup></big></b>. We will be cooking on the new stove, so you can see it in action and try it out!<br /></center>
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Current Gen1 stove builders in Southern Mexico are super excited about the upcoming workshops to learn how to build and maintain the new stoves.<br /><br />Please join us for an open house event to celebrate this exciting news from <b><big><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_329977388" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">1-5 PM</span></span> on Sunday, March 18<sup>th</sup></big></b>. We will be cooking on the new stove, so you can see it in action and try it out!</center>
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</b></big>After several long years, we are finally there! We have our new La Mazateca Gen2.1 cookstove ready for production and upcoming implementation in southern Mexico in April.<br /><br />Please join us for an open house event to celebrate this exciting news from <b><big><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_132274410" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">1-4 PM</span></span> on Sunday, March 18<sup>th</sup></big></b>. We will be cooking on the new stove, so you can see it in action and try it out!<br /><br />Can't show you any photos yet as the design is not public yet. However, it will be by the 18th! So come and see for yourself this great innovation, and enjoy some food, friends and fellow supporters. </big></center>
Rick McKenneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07210726985562240294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443871599967830084.post-70120732812848383242017-10-24T07:42:00.000-07:002017-10-24T07:42:19.057-07:00Cookstove development updateFred, Stan and I are working like crazy on testing and refining the Gen2.1 cookstove. Thus far we have made and tested four stoves all with incremental design improvements. Sadly, we can not yet show any photos or images as the intellectual Property protections are not in place yet.<br />
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However, With our testing and minor modifications (will be easy and affordable to incorporate into production). We have greatly improved the usability, cooking efficiency and reduced the material volumes.<br />
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We are still on schedule for our launch in late Jan 2018 in Chiapas, Oaxaca and San Luis Potosi.Rick McKenneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07210726985562240294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443871599967830084.post-62695003568712503162017-05-12T17:36:00.000-07:002017-05-12T17:36:15.948-07:00The world needs more toilets, but Western solutions aren't the answer<div class="st__content-block st__content-block--text">
Today, <a href="http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0023/002318/231823E.pdf" target="_blank">35.8% of the world’s population</a> still lacks access to any proper sanitation facilities.<br />
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That’s why in 2015, the world’s leaders agreed to strive for access
to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all by 2030 as
part of the <a href="http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/">United Nations Sustainable Development Goals</a>. That means more than three billion extra people will need access to a toilet.<br />
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But if we solve this problem with the flush toilets we’re used to
in the West, we will have a whole new water access and sanitation
problem on our hands. <<a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/03/why-flush-toilets-arent-the-answer-to-improving-sanitation/?utm_content=buffer99d6d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer">...more...</a>><br />
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Stanton Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16325752193487737660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443871599967830084.post-5300676809892695072017-04-05T14:38:00.000-07:002017-04-05T14:41:19.052-07:00Graphene Sieve Turns Seawater into Drinking Water<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Graphene-oxide membranes have attracted considerable attention as
promising candidates for new filtration technologies. Now the much
sought-after development of making membranes capable of sieving common
salts has been achieved.<br />
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New research demonstrates the real-world potential (<a href="http://tinyurl.com/n54kzva" target="_blank">...more...</a>)<b><br /></b>Stanton Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16325752193487737660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443871599967830084.post-73008562086859218192017-02-08T08:01:00.001-08:002017-02-08T08:01:10.037-08:00Gen 2.1 La Mazateca cookstove design at the machine shop<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yesterday was a day of significance. After much too long we finally met with Sound manufacturing (Kent WA) to show them our new stove drawings. It has taken us a long time to get to this point but we are confident in our design and Sound manufacturing to make the tooling.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our first tools and parts will be for the combustion chamber (smallest part of the stove) to test the tooling manufacturing modeling process</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is a HUGE step on our way to implementing 50 Gen 2.1 Laz Mataca clean cookstoves in Chiapas this coming fall. We are still working on the intellectual property (IP) filings so I can not show any photos or images yet. I hope to have the IP secured in a month or so. When this is complete we can show the public our innovation. </span>Rick McKenneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07210726985562240294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443871599967830084.post-75318153419826286822016-12-15T10:07:00.000-08:002016-12-15T10:07:16.422-08:00Israeli Solar Desalination Process Cuts Energy Costs by 90%<strong>Israeli startup TSD (Tethys Solar Desalination) plans to
revolutionize the process with a low-cost, off-grid, scalable, and
environmentally friendly module technology using only the power of
the sun. </strong><br />
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The most common method of reverse osmosis using membranes is
costly, energy-intensive, high-maintenance, and environmentally
problematic. It is best suited to mega-scale plants built on large
tracts of high-value land near the ocean and consumes enormous
amounts of electricity generated from fossil fuels. Then, the
treated water has to be piped great distances to farms, industries,
and households. <strong> </strong><a href="https://thewaternetwork.com/article-FfV/israeli-solar-desalination-process-cuts-energy-costs-by-90-Jv427aRzr64uVKNngTcAUg">(more)</a><strong><br /></strong>Stanton Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16325752193487737660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443871599967830084.post-85730080484229682372016-12-12T09:37:00.001-08:002016-12-12T09:37:28.266-08:00Shrinking glaciers cause state-of-emergency drought in Bolivia The government of Bolivia, a landlocked country in the heart of South
America, has been forced to declare a state of emergency as it faces
its <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-bolivia-drought-idUSKBN13G1P4">worst drought for at least 25 years</a>.<br />
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Much of the water supply to La Paz, the highest capital city in the
world, and the neighbouring El Alto, Bolivia’s second largest city,
comes from the glaciers in the surrounding Andean mountains.<br />
(<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/28/shrinking-glaciers-state-of-emergency-drought-bolivia">more...</a>) Stanton Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16325752193487737660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443871599967830084.post-19304441273008077492016-12-04T09:29:00.000-08:002016-12-04T09:29:35.822-08:00Give a Little -- Change Lives<center style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">
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Rick McKenneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07210726985562240294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443871599967830084.post-32106204699762841422016-11-29T10:00:00.000-08:002016-11-29T10:00:39.449-08:00 Researchers find "sweet" solution to kill E. coli in drinking waterPaper strips laced with sugar could be the sweetest solution so far, literally, to kill E. coli
in contaminated water. York University researcher Sushanta Mitra says
the "DipTreat" discovery will be key to developing a new generation of
inexpensive and portable water treatment devices, with human health
benefits in Canada and around the world.<a href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/314137.php" target="_blank">(more)</a>Stanton Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16325752193487737660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443871599967830084.post-57382211221489307032016-11-19T00:11:00.002-08:002016-11-19T00:11:37.586-08:00Today is World Toilet Day - November 19, 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Stanton Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16325752193487737660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443871599967830084.post-569081995712988842016-03-22T12:56:00.000-07:002016-03-22T12:56:13.920-07:00World Water Day - March 22<i>Water for Humans</i> commends the vital link between water and forests recognized at this <a href="http://www.unwater.org/worldwaterday/news/news-detail/en/c/394411/" target="_blank">UN website</a> for World Water Day.Stanton Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16325752193487737660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443871599967830084.post-36489398578815764712016-02-16T07:48:00.003-08:002016-02-16T07:48:44.854-08:00Gen2 stove development updateI know it's been a while, so I thought it was about time to let you know what we have been up to the past month or so.<br />
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Over the past few weeks I have met with several machine shops, pattern makers and casting outfits. I started with lead that Charlie (Board Chairman) has to a CNC machine shop "GearWorks" in George Town (South Seattle). It turned out Roland could not help us directly, but connected me to the casting company just behind his shop. The casting company then connected me to Steven Gary who is an expert in designing and machining molds. From this meeting we came up with several design changes (I knew there would be once we spoke with the experts in mold making). The bummer is we needed a design to show them to get their feedback and suggestions. Like all engineering projects they take time and several modifications along the way to get what one wants and needs. Gary has great ideas to help us redesign the parts and tools that will make them easier to build and cheaper. :)<br />
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So now we are back to improving the design. As part of this process we are trying to get the "SolidWorks" CAD software company to donate or discount several licenses so we can get all of our engineers using the same software platform.<br />
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Our goal is to be ready to build 50 Gen2 stoves in Chiapas by the end of the year. This will be a tight schedule, but I think we can pull it off.Rick McKenneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07210726985562240294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443871599967830084.post-21579674261355291002016-02-11T13:16:00.000-08:002016-02-11T13:16:27.434-08:00 New Sodium-Ion Desalination<b> Sodium-Ion Desalination: A New Method to Remove Salt from Water Using Battery Materials</b><br />
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The technology that charges batteries for electronic devices could
provide fresh water from salty seas, says a new study by
University of Illinois engineers. Electricity running through a
salt water-filled battery draws the salt ions out of the water. <a href="https://thewaternetwork.com/article-FfV/new-sodium-ion-desalination-15YwaAMDbpUCpbYC4vT9gw" target="_blank">-more-</a>Stanton Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16325752193487737660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443871599967830084.post-69609634315808467742015-12-29T08:32:00.003-08:002015-12-29T08:32:47.117-08:00Your gifts make greatness possible!<center>
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><i></i></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><big>Gratefully,<br />Rick, Stan & the <span style="color: #0070c0;">Water for Humans</span> Team </big></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></span><br clear="left" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><a href="https://co.clickandpledge.com/advanced/default.aspx?wid=115328&r=https://waterforhumans.org/donateend.php"><img align="center" alt="GivePackage" class="CToWUd" height="49" hspace="2" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjHtG5fqlrggLClOhyphenhypheniURMJDAosmqIuSpwc1NzcAa_998eZrm6QJytZTizMC6OHvfjBaFR9He16gzwJGFQlo7vPDfz5uX27q8lls-0i5rDQsRJHgqVQN2rOZh7VSgFOTF-tQBFjPHnAjUrkJKAh5UxlMKZHd_PbZkhZPVqPi2k0bHGZiSnnIhDDbf5fgTdZI_E-pZJf=s0-d-e1-ft" vspace="2" width="400" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> </span>Rick McKenneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07210726985562240294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443871599967830084.post-44420822244717758252015-12-09T06:47:00.001-08:002015-12-09T06:47:16.627-08:00Fall 2015 Newsletter<br />
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As the year comes to a close, and a new holiday season begins, we at <i>Water for Humans</i> want to update you on our important achievements in 2015 and say <b>THANK YOU!</b> Our achievements were possible only because of generous donors like you, who help us bring clean water technologies to indigenous rainforest communities in Oaxaca and Chiapas.<br /><b></b></div>
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<b>OUR GEN2 COOKSTOVE PROJECT -<br />IMPROVING, EXPANDING, AND SERVING NEIGHBORING COMMUNITIES</b></center>
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Since 2012,</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> we have been working to build clean cookstoves in the Mazateca region in the mountains of northeastern Oaxaca, Mexico, where over one hundred indigenous communities are nestled in the coffee-growing region of a remote rainforest. Our cookstoves help curtail deforestation and maintain freshwater ecosystems in rainforests that play a vital role in stabilizing the Earth's climate and are home </span><span class="boomerang-end-time" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to 1</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">.6 million people who rely on them for their livelihood.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This year,</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> we made great strides towards improving our first generation La Mazateca cookstoves, which have already been installed by 89 families in four communities in Oaxaca, Mexico, directly benefiting 600 individuals.</span><br />
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<li style="margin-left: 15px;">Our engineers crafted 3-D computer aided designs for a second generation stove (Gen2) that improves on our previous design by including a more versatile combustion chamber and options for an oven, a room heater and a water heater.</li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;">To aid in Gen2's development, our local partners at The Hunger Project - Mexico are using questionnaires and interviews to analyze additional stove improvement possibilities.</li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;">And, we secured a grant to conduct onsite field testing of our stoves in Mexico with GIRA (Grupo Interdisciplinario de tecnologia Rural Aprolada).</li>
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">In the upcoming year,</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> we plan for our improved second generation (Gen2) La Mazateca cookstove to benefit families in Chiapas, Mexico, and to reach a greater number of indigenous households in Oaxaca.</span><br />
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<li style="margin-left: 15px;">To achieve this, we will conduct certification testing of our Gen2 stove at Aprovecho (a cookstove research center in Oregon). This will be followed by design improvements and production tooling.</li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;">Once our Gen2 stove has been tested, we will travel to Oaxaca and Chiapas to hold workshops that will train new, local stove builders to construct and maintain our Gen2 cookstoves.</li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;">Working with regional professionals and community members, we will guide indigenous stove builders as they form a social venture enterprise to distribute our Gen2 stoves in a greater number of remote rainforest villages.</li>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Kind Regards,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><img align="left" alt="Rick&Stan-Sig" class="CToWUd" hspace="2" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjr8nqKErpSteDZsvpGFFVjyNJ5IaCnrOScIhr5V88zS4LU07M3PvJGjCGiSYt7dN4F3IuxVwlFwWL4u1lEfpYZz3INvitalvwL-Mbwv80Z1URTDJl8-aJ_aTm7z42VQff7Y41zhlK-Zjf3K28dd2dfLPrph-GNVsPrkU7OwnBoe3bM1Fs2csffIvDnzvGUPK14dLo0K-3W2znHJsoxdn6qNQ=s0-d-e1-ft&Stan-Signature.jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" vspace="2" width="150" />Rick McKenneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07210726985562240294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443871599967830084.post-9655044221195390822015-11-19T21:51:00.000-08:002015-11-19T21:51:44.491-08:00Today is World Toilet Day - UN Sanitation Update<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil-MYwlzaioN5Aj8bJvWX3yKSB_0L7IgfdvuN41InBWau6BmzS2iO01kfH62B7ussFvjbeaA6lFSajZbBU2USbSn53rrqUXoI7nQau8i62MhFfLjdft8SULFaRBcxtnEFGFarjlrWk54M/s1600/WorldToiletDay.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil-MYwlzaioN5Aj8bJvWX3yKSB_0L7IgfdvuN41InBWau6BmzS2iO01kfH62B7ussFvjbeaA6lFSajZbBU2USbSn53rrqUXoI7nQau8i62MhFfLjdft8SULFaRBcxtnEFGFarjlrWk54M/s200/WorldToiletDay.jpg" width="200" /></a>Though the world met the MDG target for drinking-water, 768 million people do not use animproved source of drinking-water.<br />
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In developing regions, 87% of the population uses an
improved source of drinking-water while 2.5 billion people, or almost
one third of the population, do not use improved sanitation. Within the
developing world (without counting India and China) in 2011, 870
million people have gained access to improved sanitation since 1990, but
there is a 12% increase of population using unimproved facilities in
this region for the same 21-year period. <a href="http://www.unwater.org/topics/water-sanitation-and-hygiene/en/" target="_blank">-more-</a></div>
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<br />Stanton Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16325752193487737660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443871599967830084.post-24790632871152725442015-11-07T08:17:00.000-08:002015-11-07T08:17:17.804-08:00Please come and join us<center style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">
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Come to the annual <i>Water for Humans</i><br />Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) kid-friendly donor appreciation party</center>
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<span b4c_all_day="false" b4c_busy_status="b4c-green" b4c_date="Sunday" b4c_id="1" b4c_time="6 pm" class="b4c-event"><span class="boomerang-meeting-text b4c_event_id1 b4c-green" style="cursor: pointer;">Sunday</span></span>, Nov 8<sup>th</sup> <span class=""><span class="">3<span class="boomerang-end-time">-6 pm</span></span></span><br /></center>
</span><a href="http://www.twodogyoga.com/" target="_blank">Two Dog Yoga Studio</a><br />12549 28th Ave NE<br />Seattle, WA 98125<center>
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<b>Enjoy tamales, hear a couple of new stories, and connect with friends old and new.</b></center>
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<b><big><big><a href="https://waterforhumans.secure.force.com/default/CnP_PaaS_EVT__ExternalRegistrationPage?event_id=a1V3400000BxXulEAF" target="_blank">Register Here!!!</a></big></big></b></center>
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Rick McKenneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07210726985562240294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443871599967830084.post-74322332690220613412015-10-26T12:36:00.000-07:002015-10-26T12:37:03.775-07:00Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) donor appreciation party<center style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">
<img alt="Logo-header" class="CToWUd a6T" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEh2AmhY6WRKjw4DG_oMI7Mj18oveiISpw9_3Gv21Ug4p3SwWbQqQPNNXCg2HQ5u_72LuQPDZAvVj6FuTICiTVEjCKeMlU642nR0Gj2Iz35teQAFuOB1aaMlsc_Sy0HbOMGKCK-FQrNb6kkj79BHXCufWBZXQh9FWiOTimjcAOwA8kiMNFOuQtNK8FkbB4EwJ-_y-hRO=s0-d-e1-ft" style="outline: 0px;" tabindex="0" width="640" /></center>
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Come to the annual <i>Water for Humans</i><br />Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) kid-friendly donor appreciation party</center>
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<span b4c_all_day="false" b4c_busy_status="b4c-green" b4c_date="Sunday" b4c_id="1" b4c_time="6 pm" class="b4c-event"><span class="boomerang-meeting-text b4c_event_id1 b4c-green" style="cursor: pointer;">Sunday</span></span>, Nov 8<sup>th</sup> 3<span class="boomerang-end-time">-6 pm</span></center>
</span><a href="http://www.twodogyoga.com/" target="_blank">Two Dog Yoga Studio</a><br />12549 28th Ave NE<br />Seattle, WA 98125<center>
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<b>Enjoy tamales and Mazateca food, hear about great people in Chiapas and Oaxaca, and connect with friends old and new.</b></center>
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<b><big><big><a href="https://waterforhumans.secure.force.com/default/CnP_PaaS_EVT__ExternalRegistrationPage?event_id=a1V3400000BxXulEAF" target="_blank">Register Here!!!</a></big></big></b></center>
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Rick McKenneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07210726985562240294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443871599967830084.post-70648354741235079652015-09-22T06:57:00.001-07:002015-09-22T06:57:12.802-07:00Remember to Save the Date Sunday 8 November 3-6 pm<center style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">
<img alt="Logo-header" class="CToWUd a6T" height="85" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEh2AmhY6WRKjw4DG_oMI7Mj18oveiISpw9_3Gv21Ug4p3SwWbQqQPNNXCg2HQ5u_72LuQPDZAvVj6FuTICiTVEjCKeMlU642nR0Gj2Iz35teQAFuOB1aaMlsc_Sy0HbOMGKCK-FQrNb6kkj79BHXCufWBZXQh9FWiOTimjcAOwA8kiMNFOuQtNK8FkbB4EwJ-_y-hRO=s0-d-e1-ft" style="outline: 0px;" tabindex="0" width="400" /></center>
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<b>Please save this FUN date!</b></center>
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<span b4c_all_day="false" b4c_busy_status="b4c-green" b4c_date="Sunday" b4c_id="1" b4c_time="6 pm" class="b4c-event"><span class="boomerang-meeting-text b4c_event_id1 b4c-green" style="color: green; cursor: pointer;">Sunday</span></span>, Nov 8<sup>th</sup> <span class=""><span class="">3<span class="boomerang-end-time">-6 pm</span></span></span><center>
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<big style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><big><big><b><span style="color: green;"></span></b></big><br /></big></big><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;"></span>
<center style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;">
<b>For the annual <i>Water for Humans</i> Fall Fundraiser</b></center>
<big style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><big><br /></big></big><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;"></span>
<center style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;">
<b>Enjoy tamales and Mazateca food, hear about great people in Chiapas and Oaxaca, and connect with friends old and new.</b></center>
<big style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><big><br /></big></big><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;"></span>
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<b>Location: <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?WaterforHumans/83f0e25280/b1e3fd5577/9334437644" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Two Dog Yoga Studio</a><br />12549 28th Ave NE<br />Seattle, WA 98125</b></center>
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<b>Sign up coming soon!!!<br /><br />P.S.</b> This is a kid friendly event and bring friends :)</center>
Rick McKenneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07210726985562240294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443871599967830084.post-65459554336536092572015-09-18T09:23:00.000-07:002015-09-22T06:54:00.233-07:00Save the Date Sunday Nov 8th 3-6pm<center style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">
<img alt="Logo-header" class="CToWUd a6T" height="85" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEh2AmhY6WRKjw4DG_oMI7Mj18oveiISpw9_3Gv21Ug4p3SwWbQqQPNNXCg2HQ5u_72LuQPDZAvVj6FuTICiTVEjCKeMlU642nR0Gj2Iz35teQAFuOB1aaMlsc_Sy0HbOMGKCK-FQrNb6kkj79BHXCufWBZXQh9FWiOTimjcAOwA8kiMNFOuQtNK8FkbB4EwJ-_y-hRO=s0-d-e1-ft" style="outline: 0px;" tabindex="0" width="400" /></center>
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<b>Please save this FUN date!</b></center>
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<span b4c_all_day="false" b4c_busy_status="b4c-green" b4c_date="Sunday" b4c_id="1" b4c_time="6 pm" class="b4c-event"><span class="boomerang-meeting-text b4c_event_id1 b4c-green" style="color: green; cursor: pointer;">Sunday</span></span>, Nov 8<sup>th</sup> <span class=""><span class="">3<span class="boomerang-end-time">-6 pm</span></span></span><center>
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<img align="center" alt="BayalemoPilotLighting-068" class="CToWUd a6T" hspace="2" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjdP4TMiWWg8NO5xsxGe5U2L9Tu4Cp0QZoiMn8VzimdbGZ6QpMl6IZlK_KQD0Th2-kSNa1-0kHno6fASSW-LSNf5syRo1IEPC9zBdCKrKObqOSFPAj7ZNwg7mzNkehAovmoEnbyh6rWR_bfpbWx3Bz7dy-TbmvznkEkye9jeEhPLy0j0m6S1EDr2MU=s0-d-e1-ft+.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;" tabindex="0" vspace="2" width="550" /></div>
<big style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><big><big><b><span style="color: green;"></span></b></big><br /></big></big>
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<b>For the annual <i>Water for Humans</i> Fall Fundraiser</b></center>
<big style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><big><br /></big></big>
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<b>Enjoy tamales and Mazateca food, hear about great people in Chiapas and Oaxaca, and connect with friends old and new.</b></center>
<big style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><big><br /></big></big>
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<b>Location: <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?WaterforHumans/83f0e25280/b1e3fd5577/9334437644" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Two Dog Yoga Studio</a><br />12549 28th Ave NE<br />Seattle, WA 98125</b></center>
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<b>Sign up coming soon!!!<br /><br />P.S.</b> This is a Kid friendly event and bring friends! </center>
Rick McKenneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07210726985562240294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443871599967830084.post-63547595889913868062015-08-24T15:35:00.000-07:002015-08-24T15:35:54.812-07:00Water and PovertyThis is a great article about the correlation of water and poverty.<br />
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<a href="http://www.humanosphere.org/podcasts/2015/08/waters-critical-role-in-thefight-against-poverty-peter-gleick/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kplu%2FsIXa+%28Humanosphere%29" target="_blank">humanosphere.org/</a><br />
<br />Rick McKenneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07210726985562240294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443871599967830084.post-14550147022507340722015-06-16T09:42:00.000-07:002015-06-16T09:42:07.414-07:00Humanity's Most Problematic Attempts to Get All the Water<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Survival shows are running amok. The contestants are naked;
they’re two out-of-shape guys in the woods; they’re stuck on an island.
Despite differences in attire or setting, one thing remains constant: For every survivor, finding potable water is the first order of business.… <a href="http://nautil.us/blog/we-suck-humanitys-most-problematic-attempts-to-get-all-the-water" target="_blank">Read More</a>Stanton Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16325752193487737660noreply@blogger.com0