Hello team, the local food team has a doubt concerning the water. Holger took the water from the tap during his trip here and we all drink from the tap. But some of us use filters or purified water (at least at home). We want you to provide guaranteed good water and propose two options:
== 1. Ceramic water filters == Photos: http://www.filtronnica.com/empresa.htm We first though about ceramic filters and filling them up with usual water. Doubtless this is a nice, organic and sustainable option. We can even give this filters away after DebConf to public schools or orphanages. The biggest filters can store up to 30 liters of water. The filter itself has a capacity of 8 liters, wich need around 2.5 hours to run through and has to be refilled 3 to 4 times in 24 hours. We would need 15 filters to guarantee 2 liters of water in 24 hours for every participant. It would cost us around $360 to buy these filters. == 2. Purified Water in 5 gallon tank == Photo: http://www.citymarket.com.ni/catalog/images/bidon20eh7.jpg If we calculate 2 liters every day per person it would be around 4000 liters which would cost us around $380. At the end purified water and filters are about the same (looking at the price). With the filters we would have made a value which we could give away afterwards (sustainable consumption), further we would support alternative companies instead one of the biggest (but national) in Nicaragua. On the ecological side, we would have letting spent way less chemicals (for cleaning the purified water tanks) and used less plastics. BUT filters would mean "some work". They have to be prepared with water running through - to get rid of the ceramic flavor. And during DebConf and DebCamp they have so be refilled. We are happy to do so. But nobody really wants to be the water guy/girl. So we propose this to the whole team to know about your opinion. It would be good to know if you prefer filters and drink from it? And it would just nice to have this refilling task something we could do together? This way it wouldn't be a big task for anybody, only all of us would be sometimes refilling some filter tanks and good water would always be available for attendees. Or the other option is we just want to go the easy way and not more work, serving purified water; And everybody is going to be happy? Cheers, Felix _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
