Various
activities and strategies has been implemented to provide access to safe
drinking water to the community residents of Barangay Venus. The team had
already launched massive information and dissemination campaign to educate the
community residents on different water purification techniques like boiling,
solar disinfection and chlorination.
This
exposure the team together with the Barangay Officials of Venus, Sergio Osmena
Sr. were able to construct three Solar Disinfection stations. The construction was
headed by the Barangay Kagawads assigned per each purok. These SoDis stations
were placed strategically to the three puroks. The stations were created to
provide a readily available, easy to use, clean and safe area where residents
can practice water purification technique.
Solar
Disinfection is a simple
water treatment method using natural solar radiation to inactivate pathogens
commonly found in drinking water. It is very cheap and
effective method of water purification.


