Aquabox

Aquabox: the water industry’s disaster relief

charity

Aquabox is a volunteer-led charity, founded in

1992, which manufactures hand-pumped water filters and sends them to disaster

areas and conflict zones around the world, so that people living in desperate

conditions can have access to clean, filtered water for drinking, cooking and

washing. Aquabox filters remove all water-borne solids down of 0.02 of a

micron, including the viruses and bacteria which cause typhoid, cholera, polio

and many other diseases. Currently we’re sending aid to Ukraine, Yemen,

Myanmar, Ghana, Nepal, Lebanon, and many other places around the globe.

Aquabox is funded entirely by donations, and is run

almost entirely by volunteers. Exhibiting at Utility Week Live gives the

charity the opportunity to spread the word about its work, and to enlist the

support of people working in the water industry and other utilities.

Aquabox is not in competition with WaterAid. We

don’t do what WaterAid does (infrastructure projects) and WaterAid doesn’t do

what we do (disaster relief). The two charities are entirely complementary. To

find out more about Aquabox and its work – and to find out how you personally

could help – come and see us at stand P96; or go to www.aquabox.org.

Aquabox is a registered charity no 1098409.