Water

Lebanon is host to over 1.5 million displaced individuals from Syria who are seeking asylum in Lebanon where there is a harsh deterioration of water and food security. The legal minimum requirement of clean drinking water for basic survival set by the World Health Organisation (WHO) is 50 to 100 litres per person per day. In the current situation, due to the lack of funding and support, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) have decreased their volume of clean drinking water per person to an emergency amount of 15 litres per person per day. For my graduation project, I conducted my research thesis on enabling displaced Syrians to purify local water sources in informal tented settlements (ITSs) in Lebanon. From these findings I continued to design a water purification device to purify chemically and biologically contaminated water to create potable water for drinking, cleaning, washing and sanitation, using the existing technologies available to The Hague Humanitarian Cooperative for Water.