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Sunspring in action in Haiti

Mark Tchelistcheff of www.openfilms.net documents the installation of a solar-powered water filtration unit at the SOS Children’s Village orphanage.

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[[Open Films]]

[[ ♪ solemn instrumental music ♫ ]]

[[onscreen] ON JANUARY 12, 2010, A DEVASTATING EARTHQUAKE HIT HAITI.]

[THE DESTRUCTION WAS CATASTROPHIC FOR THE PEOPLE, THE COUNTRY]

[AND THE CLEAN SUPPLY OF WATER.]

[[ ♫ upbeat electronic music ]]

[GE AND SUNSSPRING SPRANG INTO ACTION BY BRINGING CLEAN WATER TO THE PEOPLE OF HAITI.]

[[Jack E. Barker-Inventor of SUNSPRING Solar Powered Microbiological Water Purifier]]

[>>voiceover narration: This is the main courtyard here, ]

[and that's where the SUNSPRING is going to go.]

[This is going to be a nice location.]

[How are you?]

[[ ♫ upbeat electronic music ]]

[This is a well pump that--it can suck water from 90 feet deep.]

[[ ♫ upbeat electronic music ♫ ]]

[[onscreen] ONE SUNSPRING CAN PRODUCE UP TO 5000 GALLONS ]

[OR 19 000 LITERS OF MICROBIOLOGICALLY SAFE ]

[DRINKING WATER IN A SINGLE DAY, FOR MORE THAN TEN YEARS.]

[>>voiceover narration: This single SUNSPRING will do up to 5000 gallons per day ]

[which equates to about 38,000 of these half-liter bottles.]

[Haitians were coming from the places here on the orphanage ]

[and filling 5-gallon water jugs, gallon water jugs,]

[so it's already made several hundred gallons,]

[and it's doing exacty what it was designed for.]

[[ upbeat electronic music ♫ ]]

[[ GE ]]

[[SUNSPRING Innovative Water Technologies]]

[[onscreen] THANKS TO THE EFFORTS OF: THE GE FOUNDATION, THE WILLIAM J. CLINTON FOUNDATION,]

[UNICEF AND INNOVATIVE WATER TECHNOLOGIES.]

[THIS INITIAL RELIEF EFFORT WILL BRING MICROBIOLOGICALLY SAFE DRINKING WATER]

[FOR UP TO 140,000 PERSONS IN HAITI.]

[FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT www.innovative2o.com TO LEARN MORE]

[ABOUT BRINGING CLEAN DRINKING WATER TO THE WORLD.]

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[[ Produced by Open Films, Inc. 212-808-9770 www.openfilms.net ]]