Saving That Flint Water

The City of Flint and most of Detroit have and still have the problem of lead in the water, Intentional and destructive government policy that changed the source of their water, displaced and drove the bulk of the workforce and black families that used to live there away, in a frantic search for life literally, turning it into a ghost town, so much so that the American Military performed a military exercise in her own country right there in Detroit assured that No one was living there.
The cause: Bad water, It was a case of such magnitude, catastrophic that the City became the antonomasia of bad water everywhere else, brown lead filled water became known as Flint water.
In the South-South or Nigeria where the oil spill pollute most of the usable water, We had no choice but to cook and bath with oil laced flint water during my service year, With nowhere to turn, we had to save them in tanks and they got worse the longer they stayed.

But a solution exist and like most solution, already in existence, in nature
I present the sift pump water purifier, this kind of water purifier uses a replica of the soil structure to create a structured system partition of coal, sand and stone as it's filtration in the tube to filter out most of the lead and brackish out of that Flint water.

Attached to the pipes, while pumping the water goes into the the first sift tube and goes into another one by the time it gets into the tank, it should be a clearer, and better usable.
So imitating the very soil structure itself of how rain water make it into the acquifer we intend to replicate the same process osmotically but instead of a brush and cotton sieve, we make use of sand, charcoal and stone, arranged in a partition strata that is sure to seive out 80 percent of the water especially if the process is two fold 
The yellow type of this Flint water mars the development progress off the Lekki Eko Atlantic project, after flushing the water turns yellows almost reddish and changing discoloring the ceramic itself 
If has slowed progress there drastically and Almost turning what seemed like a good investment into a financial mishap, however a solution exist in this sand,coal, stone sift purifier (what a name).

It doesn't make it clean to drink, but It could bath, wash, clean and probably bring back the town of Flint, and anywhere clean water proves to be a challenge.



For Michael Moore (You are an Inspiration)

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