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Yes we are. An update an any of the below should take us to the next level. Looking forward to the new year.
09/09 PR
Purio Receives Letter of Intent to Install Water and Waste-Water Works
"Purio will participate in the operation of the water utilities services as a utility company, thereby creating a residual income stream for our company. A project like this, fully on-line, would generate annual revenues to the company of approximately $350,000."
11/19 PR
Purio's Direct Water Distribution Division Writes First Contracts
Daryl English, President of Purio, says, "We have now officially set sail into the marketplace. Businesses are motivated in many ways to take action and upgrade their office water service from bottle-style dispensers to modern point-of-use (POU) water purifiers and totally do away with bottled water delivery. In today's economy, the first motivation is cost cutting and we can often cut the monthly water budget by over 25%. Our primary objective is to let the world of business offices know how we can help.
Even at this early stage, we have written our first 3 contracts, and more quotes are in the pipeline waiting for approval. One of the quotes is to a multi-campus educational institution."
"We have an arrangement with a national finance company that gives us a cash payment on opening of a contract, and also provides us with ownership of the equipment when the original term is amortized. We then can look forward to a residual-style income from the equipment, which has a life expectancy far beyond the lease," continues English.
11/18 PR
Purio Accepts West African Leaders' Invitation to Present Technology
Daryl English, President of Purio, says, "Developing countries are well aware that a most important factor influencing their populations' ability to prosper is good health. Clean, safe water is at the top of their list of priorities in that quest, and that's where Purio comes in. Our technology is designed to be versatile so that it can be deployed to either drinking water purification, or wastewater treatment. That versatility, along with the energy efficiency, offers a combination of benefits that are very attractive. We look forward to this meeting as a first step toward the development of productive and long-lasting relationships in West Africa so that together, we may accomplish this all-important task."
And it's growing each year.Sad.
I agree, and PURO is one of a few companies taking the lead in this.Most people don't even know the probelms we are facing with water shortages. I know I didn't fully understnad until I started DD'ing PURO. Opened my eyes needless to say.
FACTBOX-Zimbabwe suffers cholera epidemic
Thu Dec 18, 2008 5:14am
The death toll from a cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe has soared to 1,111, the United Nations said on Thursday, adding to pressure for a quick solution to the crisis in the southern African country.
Here are some details about cholera and recent outbreaks in Africa:
* RECENT OUTBREAKS IN AFRICA:
DIED INFECTED DATE
ZIMBABWE 1111 20,581 Dec. 08
D.R. CONGO 92 3,091 Sept. 08
GUINEA-BISSAU 213 12,785 Nov. 08
400+ 25,000 2005
SUDAN (south) 44 6,000 Aug. 08
700 25,000 2006
ANGOLA 1,893 46,758 June 2006
* WHAT IS CHOLERA?
-- Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal infection caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. Transmission is through faecal-oral contamination or ingesting contaminated water and food.
-- It is characterised in its most severe form by a sudden onset of acute watery diarrhoea that can lead to death by severe dehydration and kidney failure.
-- The extremely short incubation period -- two hours to five days -- increases the potentially explosive pattern of outbreaks, as the number of cases can rise very quickly.
* HOW IS CHOLERA TREATED?:
-- Cholera is treated by replacing lost fluid and salts. People are treated with prepackaged mixtures of sugar and salts that are mixed with water and drunk in large quantities.
-- Severe cholera cases also require intravenous fluid replacement.
-- With prompt rehydration, fewer than 1 percent of cholera patients die.
Sources: Reuters/WHO
Polluted Water Sets Stage for Future Wars
by Mithre J. Sandrasagra
UNITED NATIONS - Future conflicts all over the globe could be fought over water, if human beings are not careful with the precious resource, UN Secretary General Kofi has warned.
''In this new century, water, its sanitation, and its equitable distribution pose great social challenges for our world,'' Annan said on the occasion of World Water Day 2001 being observed Thursday.
Yearly polluted water contributes to the death of 15 million children under five
Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP
The difficulties in achieving full access to safe water and adequate sanitation are compounded by increasing competition for scarce water resources in most countries of the region, the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), based in Beirut, Lebanon emphasised.
''There are many countries that are today in distress when it comes to water .... drinking water is going to be a serious problem,'' Annan stressed.
More than one billion people lack access to a safe water supply, according to a World Health Organisation (WHO) report released Thursday.
Forty percent of the human race, some 2.4 billion people, lack adequate sanitation and 3.4 million die every year of water-related diseases, said the WHO report entitled 'Water for Health - Taking Charge'.
Polluted water affects the health of 1.2 billion people yearly, and contributes to the death of 15 million children under five, Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said Thursday.
Vector-borne diseases, such as malaria, kill another 1.5 to 2.7 million people per year, with inadequate water management a key cause of such diseases, said UNEP's Global Environment Outlook Report 2000.
''These disease outbreaks create widening circles of misery, illness and death with dire economic and social impacts for the people concerned,'' Toepfer emphasised.
Annan emphasised that those most affected by water shortages rank among the poorest in the world - as well as the least healthy. ''In fact, the absence of a safe water supply contributes to an estimated 80 percent of disease and death in the developing world,'' Annan stressed.
''History provides grim reminders that failure to manage our water resources properly has caused the end of civilisations,'' Toepfer said, pointing to the fall of the Mesopotamian civilisation in what is now Iraq and Iran and the Aksum empire in what is modern Ethiopia.
''If we solve every other problem in the Middle East but do not satisfactorily solve the water problem, our region will explode,'' the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, a water engineer once said.
Indeed Israeli officials recently raised the spectre of a 'water war' with Lebanon as Lebanese villages prepare to pump water from the Hasbani River which flows through both countries.
''Nobody heard me say wars break out over water, but factually that is correct,'' Avigdor Lieberman, Israel's hardline minister for infrastructure told The Financial Times, hinting at the prospect of military action if Lebanon began pumping Hasbani water.
Syria and Iraq embrace the cause of Kurdish guerrilla leader Abdullah Ocalan in the bloody rebellion he set in motion against Turkish rule as a way of applying pressure on Turkey to release more water into the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers which are held back by a series of dams in Turkey's southeastern provinces.
Ocalan was given money, arms and political cover though both Syria and Iraq have fiercely repressed their own Kurdish populations.
Stressing that water is a ''major security issue'' ESCWA emphasised Thursday that ''water scarcity continues to be and will remain through the near future a leading concern for all water consuming sectors''.
Seven of the 13 ESCWA member states are among the world's poorest countries in water - with per capita water shares of less than 500 cubic metres per year.
According to ESCWA, though progress has been made in urban areas, rural communities are still inadequately served, in terms of both quantity and quality of drinking water as well as sanitation facilities.
In some ESCWA countries - including Iraq and Syria - less than 50 percent of the rural population has safe drinking water and less than 20 percent have adequate sanitation.
''Countries that control water are likely to be the big winners of the future,'' former US Senator Paul Simon wrote in a new book entitled 'Tapped Out', which examines global water problems. ''The world's population will double in the next 40 to 90 years, Simon said, ''our water supply, however, is constant''.
ESCWA reiterating the UN Secretary-General's Millennium Report urged member states Thursday to renew their commitments to reduce by half, between now and 2015, the proportion of people who lack sustainable access to adequate sources of affordable and safe water.
''Safe, clean water for drinking and sanitation is simply the fundamental condition for bettering the human lot,'' Koichiro Matsuura, Director General of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation pointed out.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/0323-01.htm
Good morning people.
LOL, that it is my friend.
PBKS - Anybody else play this one.
Why am I not suprised?
Have a good weekend everyone and be safe on those roads if you are traveling.
Yep, have good weekend all.
I really do hope he does, and one that does not wipe the current shareholders out. Too many good peole on this baord for that.
True, he could have waited till after the unveiling to file that crap. I ams ure it would have brought in some buying and the actual unveiling would have brought im more. Now with a possible RS looming noone will buy. BONEHEAD moveis right!!!
Exactly ford.
That's what I fail to understand and pisses me off. What freaking logic did Peter use in conjuring up that big idea???????
"tight" is good.
Yep, Obama is gonna push the technology hard.
yeah, wish I had some mo' money!!!
Sure you can, see watch this....
Exactly.
check out this link for some interesting maps on fresh water threats.
http://www.feow.org/threatmaps.php
Yes it does. I myself was not aware that the situation was this bad until I started doing my DD on this and one other stock. Needless to say I am very suprised.
Just curious.
Estimated Deaths from Water-Related Diseases 2000-2020
Pacific Institute Research Report
Peter H. Gleick
August 15, 2002
Abstract
The failure to provide safe drinking water and adequate sanitation services to all people is perhaps the greatest development failure of the 20th century. The most egregious
consequence of this failure is the high rate of mortality among young children from preventable water-related diseases. This paper examines different scenarios of activities in the international water arena and provides three estimates of the overall water-related mortality likely to occur over the next two decades.
If no action is taken to address unmet basic human needs for water, as many as 135 million people will die from these diseases by 2020. Even if the explicit Millennium Goals announced by the United Nations in 2000 are achieved1 – unlikely given current international commitments – between 34 and 76 million people will perish from waterrelated
diseases by 2020. This problem is one of the most serious public health crisis facing us, and deserves far more attention and resources than it has received so far.
http://www.pacinst.org/reports/water_related_deaths/water_related_deaths_report.pdf
Exactly what is it you would like to know? Have you emailed the IR or called anyone and asked these questions yourself or are you just wanting people on this board to answer your questions?
riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight!!! LOL.
LOL, indeed it can.
Florida has been nice all week.
I have no clue.
NO, the float and OS will be smaller when/if and RS is done. Peter needs to reduce the AS as well or people will see it as just another round of dilution that is coming.
Correct, that will be telling.
Unfortuantely Peter is fair game being that he is the CEO as would any IR people.
Maronti - The post you are referring to is about Peter. Which in turn is on topic with RVGD. Persoanl attacks are only releveant when it is about another poster not a CEO of the company. CEO and IR people are fair game to what ever you want to post. Comment on the post not the poster, sorry but those are the rules.
And by the way, this is not a knock on Captain Jim. He is voicing his opinion like everyone else.
Back at ya hand. You are the core of this board bud.
People enough of the off topic posts and personal attacks. If you have an issue with a moderator on this board the only way to deal with it is go to admin.
DAN - With the Auto bailout this one could get interesting.
We're running out of water
Written by Amanda Martinez
Wednesday, 17 December 2008
Summoning the goodwill to keep tabs on yet another epic global crisis isn’t easy, but it’s oh so important
In early December, I attended an information panel at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a provocative title: “The War for Water.” The panel was meant to lay out some of the formidable challenges of providing clean water worldwide in the midst of growing demand, increased pollution and climate change, and to spark debate about the best way to identify and cultivate the technologies that might overcome these challenges. But the panel ultimately failed to address these issues in any significant way for the simple fact that the packed auditorium’s audience of more than 200 of Boston’s self-selected water curious couldn’t seem to get past the panel’s establishing statement—that we’re currently experiencing a global water crisis.
Now I know times are tough, and that the word “crisis,” due to the recent uptick in the frequency of its use, may have lost a little of its patina of urgency, but nary a week and certainly no more than a month goes by without some major newspaper or magazine sounding the clarion call of a desperate, burgeoning water emergency either here at home or in one of a spate of other countries, developing or otherwise. And yet still, when the MIT panel was opened to the audience for questions, attendee after attendee asked the panel of water industry executives, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and one lone representative (decidedly a stooge, I’m sad to report) from the Environmental Protection Agency’s water safety lab to please parse the basics.
“So if there are all these contaminants in our water supply, what’s being done to address them?” one man asked in response to the statement that our current water treatment methods are ineffective at eliminating an increasing host of micropollutants, including nanoparticles, pharmaceuticals and endocrine-disrupting chemicals. The EPA representative did little to assuage the man’s concerns, blatantly stating that the agency was “not in a position to assess the risk of micropollutants in the water supply,” condemning the future potential of developing such assessment ability as “a monumental effort,” reminding us that the EPA only performs a contaminant risk assessment once every six years and finally, foisting responsibility onto the states to “impose stricter standards” than those of the federal government.
Other questions held a similar tone of chagrin, betrayal and exasperation, and finally culminated with the query of one man, who, looking to be neither a hermit nor a member of the crowd that at one recent presidential rally actually booed The New York Times, asked: “If there is such a crisis as you say, why is this the first I’m hearing about this? Who will tell the people about this crisis?”
Could it be that we’ve missed all of the headlines (and there have been some sexy ones) hailing water as the resource most likely to precipitate wars in the coming decades? Are we not aware that water is the new oil? Is it only those of us who were unlucky enough to receive a citation between May of 2007 and April of 2008 for watering our lawns between the forbidden hours of 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. who truly understand that peak water has arrived?
Well, just in case, here’s the crux of the crisis. There are an estimated 350 quintillion gallons of water on Earth. Unfortunately, less than 1 percent of that water comes readily available for our human endeavors, sequestered as it is in the oceans’ saline waters and frozen polar caps. Although we’d die without it, water is not just for drinking. About two-thirds of the water we draw from rainfall, rivers and aquifers is used in agriculture for irrigation. This is why water scarcity equals food scarcity. Water and energy are also inextricably linked. For power generated via coal and oil, every megawatt hour produced requires 21,000 to 50,000 gallons of water. Conversely, the state of California spends 20 percent of its annual electricity consumption just pumping water from one part of the state to another.
Rampant, sustained pollution and surging population growth are draining traditional freshwater sources faster than nature’s ingenious hydrologic cycle can replenish them. Rising gross domestic product has had an even greater impact on water demand than population growth, requiring, according to one recent study, an additional 22,000 cubic meters of water per year for every $1 million gained in GDP. Add to these stressors climate change’s seeming penchant for inflicting drought, and the concept of global water scarcity suddenly and starkly begins to lose its mystique.
Take the domestic view and the last year reveals a passel of in-house water woes and concomitant squabbles. This past June, Gov. Schwarzenegger declared a statewide drought, crowning the previous March, April and May as possibly the driest ever in recorded history. In March, researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography predicted a 50 percent chance that Lake Mead, the reservoir for over 22 million people in the Southwest, could be dry by 2021 if the current rates of water usage persist. The Great Lakes, which comprise approximately 20 percent of the world’s surface fresh water and quench the water needs of 40 million people in eight states and parts of Canada, are experiencing declining water levels. But that didn’t stop politicians from such faraway, water-strapped states as New Mexico and Texas from feeling covetous, a move that prompted Great Lakes states to introduce protective legislation to Congress. In February, politicians in drought-saddled Atlanta even went so far as to dispute a 190-year-old document determining Georgia’s border with Tennessee in the hopes of gaining access to a tiny patch of the Tennessee River.
Take the worldview on water scarcity, however, and the situation immediately slips to dire. As it stands today, 1.2 billion people on the planet have no access to clean water. If that’s scary, by 2030, the world will need to gain access to 50 percent more water. Australia, the world’s driest continent, is struggling through a decade-long drought that has wrung A$20 billion from its $1 trillion economy in the last six years. Major rivers such as the Nile and the Yellow River in China are so taxed, they now fail to reach the sea at certain times of the year. In rural Africa, it is not uncommon for a woman to spend eight hours a day, walking ten miles or more to fetch water. And the statistic that may have elicited the greatest collective gasp from the MIT-panel audience was that which stated that every 15 seconds, somewhere in the world, a child dies from a preventable waterborne-related disease.
It’s not that we don’t have the technology to meet these challenges. Many solutions already exist and others are quickly evolving that are capable of addressing water scarcity on several fronts. These range from more efficient water use (drip irrigation as opposed to flood irrigation) and improved municipal water infrastructure (every year billions of dollars’ worth of drinking water are lost en route to our taps due to leaky pipes), to novel seawater desalination technologies and wastewater treatment methods.
As the panel members pointed out, the true challenge to large-scale development and implementation of these technologies lies at the heart of a controversial dilemma that pits the psychology of water against the business of water. Should access to clean water and sanitation be considered a fundamental human right or should it be treated, at least initially, as a commodity? Right now, it is considered effectively neither, but knee-jerk morality screams choice A, the choice with the best outcome for all may be to fully commoditize and thus, create a market for water, which would then spur innovation, stimulate investment, drive competition, light a fire under adoption and much more quickly enable us to install efficient water infrastructure in developing countries.
In sum, shock may have been the pervading sentiment at the panel discussion, and that’s fine. The statistics and predictions are arresting. But now that we have an inkling of what’s at stake, we need to take action. Because, as one panel member pointed out, invoking an image of Georgia’s governor praying for rain on the steps of the state capitol during last year’s drought, “hope is not a method.”
Gonna be like this until new year. NO worries.
Getting mighty close.