DALLAS—Ceramic water filters Texas Baptist Men volunteers use to purify water not only protect against bacteria, but also against viruses, according to a Food & Drug Administration-registered laboratory.
Dallas-based Ceutical Labs confirmed the filters produced by Just Water, a partner with TBM’s water purification ministry, remove viruses from water.
Texas Baptist Men volunteers distributed water filters to Sao Paulo, Brazil.The Internet includes advertisements for water filtration products that claim to remove viruses. However, Just Water is the first emergency water system that can back up its claim with findings from an FDA-registered laboratory, said Ron Mathis of McKinney, the company’s founder.
“It’s a milestone, particularly since everything we produce is made right here in Texas,” he said.
Mathis developed Just Water to provide nonprofit organizations an easy, cost-efficient way to offer clean water to impoverished countries and areas hit by natural disasters.
Just Water and TBM have worked together more than eight years, and TBM operates a water purification ministry in more than 70 countries worldwide.
On World Water Day March 22, UNICEF reported about 1,800 children a day under age 5 die from unsafe water and poor sanitation and hygiene, and close to 90 percent of child deaths from diarrheal diseases are linked directly to contaminated water and inadequate sanitation.
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