PUR Packets are used to filter water for people who do not have access to clean drinking water. They work by recreating water power plants in a smaller scale, this has both positive and negative impacts on the four compass points. This report will explain how the PUR Packet is a realistic and possibly good solution to our world’s water problem. According to Dr. Greg Allgood PUR Packet turns contaminated water into safe drinking water. It does this by going through a similar process to water power plants that filter the water we use everyday. According to Dr. Greg Allgood, the inventor of the packet itself, to get clean water using a PUR Packet you start off by pouring the PUR Packet into 10 liters of water and stir it for 5 minutes.
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The four points in the compass are Nature (N), Economy (E), Society (S) and Well-Being (W), these points in the compass can help us determine how good this solution is. It is mostly positive in terms of nature and our environment. Using PUR Packet could mean less use of water power plants we could build less of them as they need cleared land to be constructed. According to Children’s Safe Drinking Water Foundation PUR Packet factories are really compact and maximizes the space it uses this means less deforestation and land clearing than building water power plants. All this still has a negative side to it as the content of this product is packaged in plastic sachets, however, this is a small price to pay considering the other impacts. In terms of economy it is both positive and negative depending on what perspective it is looked from at. According to Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (cdc) they are 3.5 cents each however, according to Amazon they are sold not including shipping is is approximately 1.14 Thai baht. According to Proctor and Gamble the shipping price is not supposed have an impact but if you look at it comparing to the price of the product it seems to have a higher value. There are tanks in Thailand that provide drinking water to people that already have a plastic bottle at 1 baht per liter and this is already …show more content…
This is because it is sustainable compared to the other filtration systems and safer too. Although at our house we use about 12000 liters a month (USA Government) and spend about 200 baht on water per person this is 60 liter per baht
The four points in the compass are Nature (N), Economy (E), Society (S) and Well-Being (W), these points in the compass can help us determine how good this solution is. It is mostly positive in terms of nature and our environment. Using PUR Packet could mean less use of water power plants we could build less of them as they need cleared land to be constructed. According to Children’s Safe Drinking Water Foundation PUR Packet factories are really compact and maximizes the space it uses this means less deforestation and land clearing than building water power plants. All this still has a negative side to it as the content of this product is packaged in plastic sachets, however, this is a small price to pay considering the other impacts. In terms of economy it is both positive and negative depending on what perspective it is looked from at. According to Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (cdc) they are 3.5 cents each however, according to Amazon they are sold not including shipping is is approximately 1.14 Thai baht. According to Proctor and Gamble the shipping price is not supposed have an impact but if you look at it comparing to the price of the product it seems to have a higher value. There are tanks in Thailand that provide drinking water to people that already have a plastic bottle at 1 baht per liter and this is already …show more content…
This is because it is sustainable compared to the other filtration systems and safer too. Although at our house we use about 12000 liters a month (USA Government) and spend about 200 baht on water per person this is 60 liter per baht