Ensuring clean water for ship crews
Many years ago, a young girl close to our heart was stricken with a typhoid-like illness apparently caused by contaminated water. She had to be rushed to hospital and confined for a week – just three days after her mother, who had died of aneurism, was buried. The supply of clean water for drinking and other purposes is not less an issue at sea than it is on land. Thankfully, UK-based water and air quality specialist Amphibia has developed a solution that shipowners would do well to consider. Less-than-clean water can be hazardous, if not fatal, to the crew. (more…)
