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MIOX and Operation Blessing Bring Safe Drinking Water to Philippines for Disaster Relief

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Typhoon Haiyan

MIOX Corporation, the industry leader in on-site chemical generation technology, has partnered with Operation Blessing International (OBI), one of the largest charities in America, for disaster relief efforts in the Philippines following Super Typhoon Haiyan.

Six (6) MIOX BPS portable sodium hypochlorite generators and one (1) SANILEC 6 sodium hypochlorite generator have been deployed to the Philippines by Operation Blessing International.  The seven (7) clean water treatment technologies have the combined capacity to treat approximately 500,000 gallons of water each day, providing safe drinking water in life-threatening conditions.

Operation Blessing International President, Bill Horan, confirms lack of safe drinking water is one of the biggest problems facing the relief efforts.  With raw sewage overflowing as a result of the typhoon, water supplies are contaminated.

”One of the most pressing challenges in a major disaster such as this is providing clean water,” says Horan. “These state-of-the-art MIOX units will be of immeasurable help in our efforts to provide clean drinking water for tens of thousands of people each day.”

MIOX President & CEO, Craig Beckman, said, “We are honored to partner with Operation Blessing in its efforts on the ground in the Philippines.  At our core, MIOX is about safe water disinfection and clean drinking water.  Everyone wants to help in times of great suffering, and we are glad to be a central part of Operation Blessing’s strategy in Tacloban.”

Typhoon HaiyanOperation Blessing VP of International Operations, David Darg, is on the ground in Tacloban, Philippines preparing for the arrival of the portable sodium hypochlorite water treatment systems. David, who has been a first responder to over 100 natural disasters globally, says the level of suffering in the Philippines is among the worst he has ever witnessed.

“There’s a tremendous amount of aid that is ready to pour into the country, but the port was destroyed and the local infrastructure severely damaged,” said Darg. “This is making the transportation of aid to the hardest hit areas near impossible.”

According to Darg, the most important thing right now is to provide clean water.

VIDEO Typhoon Haiyan Relief: Operation Blessing On The Ground In Tacloban

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PHOTOS Super Typhoon Haiyan Devastates the Philippines

 

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For more information or to donate to the relief efforts, please visit http://www.ob.org/ 

  

About Operation Blessing International
Operation Blessing International (OBI) is one of the largest charities in America, providing strategic disaster relief, medical aid, hunger relief, clean water and community development in 23 countries around the world on a daily basis. Currently, Forbes ranks OBI as one of its “100 Largest Charities” with an efficiency rating of 99%, and Consumers Digest also named OBI as one of “America’s Top Charities” in 2012. Founded in 1978, Operation Blessing International has touched the lives of more than 255 million people in more than 105 countries and 50 states, providing goods and services valued at over $3.3 billion to date.

Operation Blessing International began working in the Philippines in the early 1980s by pioneering fresh water programs to the residents of the trash dump known as “Smokey Mountain.”   In 1996, Operation Blessing Foundation Philippines was created and has worked to fight hunger, disease, unemployment, illiteracy, abuse, and to respond to major disasters ever since. Under the direction of Dr. Kim April C. Pascual, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, more than a million Filipinos have been helped through various humanitarian outreaches spearheaded by OB or in collaboration with OB partner agencies such as non-profit organizations, local government units, the Department of Health, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), and the Armed Forces of the Philippines. In recognition of OB’s efforts, it was awarded as NGO of the Year for Peace Efforts by the Philippines government in 2002 and 2003, and as NGO of the Year in 2006 and 2007.

To see an electronic press kit of OBI’s work please visit: http://ob.org/learnmore/

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Operation Blessing On The Ground In Tacloban To Provide Safe Drinking Water

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Operation Blessing‘s VP of International Operations, David Darg, is on the ground in Tacloban to bring relief to typhoon victims.  In just a matter of days, David will have a number of portable hypochlorite generators and will start distributing clean drinking water to survivors in Tacloban and other affected areas in the Philippines.  Right now, food and water are critical for survivors. Many have now gone days without either as aid workers and military personnel work to reach those trapped in devastated areas.

Six (6) MIOX BPS portable sodium hypochlorite generators and one (1) SANILEC 6 sodium hypochlorite generator have been deployed to the Philippines by Operation Blessing International.  The seven (7) clean water treatment technologies have the combined capacity to treat approximately 500,000 gallons of water each day, providing safe drinking water in life-threatening conditions.

Watch the video below as David explains how the families in the Philippines are struggling to survive in the wake of one of the strongest storms in recorded history.

 

MIOX For Drinking Water

MIOX is a cutting-edge technology company that has been making water safe to drink for twenty years. Many communities are turning to MIOX chemistries for their drinking water disinfection because the chemistry is a proven disinfectant for improving the quality and safety of drinking water with significant economic savings. MIOX’s extensive experience providing clean, safe drinking water ranges from rural communicates to large cities with more than 10 million people such as city of Bogota, Columbia.

Around the world, MIOX products are providing reliable access to safe drinking water. By providing advanced disinfection technology, government agencies, NGOs and relief organizations have used MIOX systems to provide water purification in disaster relief efforts in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, the tsunami in Sri Lanka and Thailand, floods in the Mexican state of Tabasco and after devastating earthquakes in Haiti. MIOX systems have proven effective in Haiti, Honduras, Africa and other remote settings where access to clean drinking water is crucial but unavailable.

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Operation Blessing Uses MIOX On-Site Chemical Generators To Aid Typhoon Haiyan

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Operation Blessing International President, Bill Horan, confirms lack of safe drinking water is one of the biggest problems facing the relief efforts.  With raw sewage overflowing as a result of the typhoon, water supplies are contaminated.

”One of the most pressing challenges in a major disaster such as this is providing clean water,” says Horan. “These state-of-the-art MIOX units will be of immeasurable help in our efforts to provide clean drinking water for tens of thousands of people each day.”

In the video below, Horan showcases the a MIOX BPS portable sodium hypochlorite generator and how the people in the Philippines are utilizing the technology to provide safe drinking water to those impacted by Super Typhoon Haiyan.

The MIOX Brine Pump System (BPS) used in the video weighs under 12 kg (26 lbs.) and can be set up to start generating disinfectant within a matter of minutes.  The unit can treat up to 45 cubic meters (12,000 gallons) of water per day if operated continuously. Power requirements are 12 VDC, making it possible to use solar, generator, or battery power, as well as power from the wall. BPS units were utilized in both Sri Lanka and Thailand after the tsunami for drinking water treatment and medical equipment sterilization, in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina for cooking and shower water, and in in Haiti after devastating Hurricane Isaac.

WATCH VIDEO: Operation Blessing’s Hurricane Isaac video featuring MIOX technology for disaster relief.

About MIOX On-Site Generators

MIOX offers a comprehensive line of on-site disinfectant generators designed to solve virtually every water disinfectant treatment challenge. Field tested and proven, MIOX generators are available in a variety of sizes, and chemistries and are scaleable to produce some of the highest volume and rate demands on the planet.

On-site generation of chemistries for water disinfection is a technology that is based on decades-old scientific principles.  MIOX on-site generators (OSGs) use an electrolysis process that takes a solution of sodium chloride (salt) and water and applies electricity, to produce chlorine-based disinfection chemistry.

Expertly designed MOS and sodium hypochlorite generators from MIOX give customers the freedom to produce disinfectants in the amount they need, when they need it.  Because of the benefits that OSGs provide, many industries are switching to on-site chemical generation and moving away from more traditional chlorine delivery systems such as chlorine gas, concentrated sodium hypochlorite, and bulk calcium hypochlorite.

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Press Release: MIOX Expands Market Application of Advanced Oxidation Process (AOP) Technology

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Read the full press release here on the MIOX website.

MIOX awarded $100,000 National Science Foundation SBIR research grant to commercialize on-site generated AOP chemistry in the Microelectronics & Aerospace industries

NSF’s TECP program is specifically designed to provide bridge funding when a technology developed under the SBIR program stirs commercial interest. Partnering with global leaders in the Microelectronics and Aerospace industries, MIOX has identified and started developing applications for an economical AOP technology.

 “This award from the NSF allows our project team to move the technology developed under the SBIR program out to a larger commercial arena,” said Dr. Susan Rivera, MIOX Manager of Research and Development. “MIOX’s AOP technology will be able to solve numerous water treatment challenges at a lower cost per gallon and with less environmental impact.”

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Preventing Cholera Outbreak in Haiti | Operation Blessing & MIOX

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Operation Blessing International is making a significant impact across the globe through humanitarian efforts and clean water initiatives. This videos highlights Operation Blessing’s disaster relief initiatives for clean water in Haiti during Hurricane Isaac in August 2012. MIOX and Operation Blessing continue to work closely on developing economical and effective solutions for providing safe, clean drinking water to those in need.

MIOX Corporation has responded to Worldwide disaster needs since its start-up in 1994. The MIOX electrolytic cell technology was developed by Los Alamos Technical Associates (LATA) in the 1980s to respond to the U.S. Army’s need for portable disinfectant generators. LATA developed a process that would produce a disinfectant many times as effective as chlorine, yet without using or producing hazardous chemicals. The Mixed Oxidant Solution (MOS) technology has been recognized by the EPA as being cost effective and simple enough for small rural community water systems to operate. Using only salt, the generators eliminate the need to transport and use hazardous chemicals, such as chlorine and other biocides. MOS creates drinking water that is taste and odor free, produces less disinfection byproducts than chlorine, and leaves a disinfectant residual in the distribution system which methods such as ozone, chlorine dioxide, and ultraviolet do not.

MOS has been proven in numerous laboratory studies to achieve more rapid and thorough inactivation of a wider range of microbial contaminants. MOS usually is several orders of magnitude more effective in microbial contaminant inactivation than conventional chlorine and chlorine gas, achieving up to 2 logs higher inactivation of even extremely resistant organisms.  MIOX’s MOS disinfection chemistry reduces Cryptosporidium contamination by 99.99%; chlorine is ineffective.  In field studies done in New Mexico and California, and research done by the Universities of Arizona and New Mexico, similar effectiveness results have been found with other difficult microorganisms.  MIOX was demonstrated to get a 99.99% reduction of Giardia after 30 minutes, and eliminated E. coli and cholera after 60 minutes.

MIOX has been making safe drinking water for twenty years.  The company’s extensive experience in water disinfection ranges from rural communicates and large cities to disaster relief efforts.   Many cities are turning to MIOX chemistries for their permanent drinking water treatment because the chemistry is a proven disinfectant for cost-effectively reducing disinfection byproducts and improving the quality and safety of drinking water.

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