Aquascape Foundation Installs Rainwater System in Ghana
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
St.
Charles,
IL –
A group of Aquascape Foundation volunteers traveled to the Kuve Village
in Ghana, Africa the week of January 12th, 2009 to install
Aquascape’s RainXchange™ System and Genieye’s Eye-Nizer™ water purification
system. The rainwater harvesting system provides clean drinking water for the
village’s school children, and creates the ability to prepare one hot meal per
day.
The
newly-installed system allows for rainwater to run off the school’s roof and is
then stored in a sub-surface 8,000 gallon reservoir. The water enters into the
first chamber of the 22’ x 24’ x4’ basin, which acts as a sediment trap to
remove particulate matter, before being passed through the ionization manifold
via a solar-powered pump. The Genieye Eye-Nizer™ adds trace amounts of copper
and silver ions to the water to kill bacteria and other waterborne pathogens.
The sterilized water then passes into the second chamber where it’s stored
before being pumped for use by a single hand pump.
“Pairing
the Eye-Nizer™ with the RainXchange™ System provided the perfect solution for
this village that has no electricity. We were able to install a solar panel on
the roof to provide power for the ionization manifold,” claimed Ed Beaulieu, Foundation vice president and chief
sustainability officer for Aquascape, Inc. “We want to leverage our water
feature expertise for humanitarian efforts and this project will be one of many
life-saving applications.”
The
system will capture and filter over 100,000 gallons of water per year, providing
clean drinking water for more than 400 children throughout the year. Aquascape
Foundation chose the Kuve school project after contacting the I.N. Network in
Zeeland, Michigan, whose mission is to connect partners
in community development.
Aquascape
Foundation volunteers who participated in the rainwater harvesting project
included foundation
president Carla Wittstock, Wayne, IL; foundation vice-president, Ed Beaulieu of Aquascape, Inc. in St. Charles, IL;
Lauri Mitchell of Mitchell Motivation
in Palatine, IL; Roberto Cosme and
Tim Bottoms of Aquascape, Inc. in St. Charles, IL; Tim Muttoo of Genieye Systems
Inc. in Ontario, Canada; Dale Vnuk of Wyld Creek Water Gardens in Fox Lake, IL;
Al Lentz, of Lentzscaping in Warminster, PA; Glenn and Isaac Ferrell of Living
Water Aquascapes in Lakeland, FL;
Bob Blasing of Ripple Effect
Water Gardens in Redwood, CA; Keith Robinson, of Semco, Inc. in Belton, MO;
April Dugan of Nature Scapes in Grafton, NH; and Karen and Dayton Wright from
Ogden, UT.
For
more information on the Aquascape Foundation and its mission, log onto www.aquascapeinc.com/aquascape-foundation. For information on Genieye’s water
purification systems visit www.genieye.com.
About The
Aquascape Foundation
The
Aquascape Foundation is a not for profit 501 (c) 3 organization established in
2008. The mission of The Foundation is to create sustainable solutions for
the world-wide water crisis. The purpose of The Foundation is to promote
awareness of water as our most precious resource through environmental,
educational and philanthropic efforts.
Aquascape
is North America’s leading innovator in the
water gardening industry. Aquascape invented the low-maintenance,
naturally balanced ecosystem pond that is the # 1 contractor-installed water
garden. The St.
Charles, Illinois
headquarters, dubbed “Aqualand,” received Silver Level recognition in the
Leadership in Energy
and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating system.
Aquascape’s mission
is to help our customers succeed at building, selling, and retailing water
garden products while supplying innovative products and solutions that capture,
clean and reuse our planet’s most valuable resource - water. Aquascape and its vast network of
Authorized AquascapePRO™ Distributors
sell exclusively to contractors and retailers. Founded in 1991, Aquascape made the Inc. 500
list of fastest growing private companies four years in a row. In 2005,
founder and CEO Greg Wittstock was named one of America’s Best Bosses by FORTUNE
Small Business Magazine and Winning Workplaces™.
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