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Frequently Asked Questions:
Project
- Who operates and maintains the plants?
- Do all the people in the community know where they are getting their water?
- What are the sources of water for the plant?
- Why Honduras and not another country?
- Where can I learn more about AguaClara?
- How can I get involved?
Costs
- What are the costs associated with building each plant?
- Where does the money come from?
Technology
- What makes a flocculator better than other water treatment methods that are available or could be made available in Honduras?
- How big is the plant?
- Can the AguaClara technology be used if there aren't mountains?
- Is the water leaving the demo plant safe to drink?
- How long is the chlorine in contact with the water until people drink it?
- What is flocculation?
- Why is filtration not used/not necessary?
- How clean is the water that leaves?
- How do you get rid of the sediment that settles out in the sedimentation tank?
- Do you have to turn off the plant to do it?
- Can you have too much aluminum sulfate used in the plant? How about Chlorine?
Alum
- Is aluminum sulfate harmful to humans? Animals?
- Is there aluminum sulfate in the water leaving the demo plant / other AguaClara plants?
- Does treatment with aluminum sulfate do anything about microbes or other disease carrying agents?
Clean water
- How do AguaClara plants remove disease carrying agents from the water supply
- Aside from clay, what other things do AguaClara's water treatment plants remove from the water?
- How do AguaClara plants remove disease carrying agents from the water supply?
- Aside from clay, what other things do AguaClara's water treatment plants remove from the water?
- How long is the chlorine in contact with the water until people drink it?
- What is turbidity?
- How turbid can the water be entering the plant, for it still to be clean when it leaves?