Pivotal help in Water Scarcity

Use is simple and versatile via a refillable spray bottle provided to each person. Facilitates easier sanitation.

• Spray bottles are convenient, portable, easy to remember.

• Spraying is quicker than applying gels or wipes.

• People more likely to disinfect after minor issues (face touching, small cough, etc.) more frequently when it doesn't require going to a sink.

• Safe, multi-purpose disinfectant for skin, clothes, surfaces, air, and PPE. (Also for water and rinsing foods, at low concentrations.)

  • Note: Consistency is same as water. If cleaning oily surface, soap or alcohol should also be used.

• Intense kill of pathogens with comparatively little water.

• Much less expensive than alcohols, and milder on skin.

• Safe to inhale at low levels.

Economical and practical.

• Initial individual cost: USD $1.50 basic spray bottle, or $6 sustained-pressure spray bottle, or $15 pump-up spray bottle.

• Mixing equipment:
  $6 opaque 25-litre jug; or $22 opaque 200-L barrel;
  or $250 community mixing station.

• Ongoing cost: $0.50 / gallon for refill solution, or <$1 / gallon for solution-generating tablets. Powders also available.

• Spray bottle reduces product waste compared to using bottle with cap.

• Transportation costs: At least 85% lower than bleach, because less chemical is needed.

When sprayed into air, will disinfect air and surfaces where it lands.

• Potentially highly valuable for multi-generational and crowded homes.

• Businesses, schools and healthcare centers can operate more safely.

• Convenient enough to become a routine practice that reduces contagion from non-symptomatic individuals.

• Decreases amount of pathogens that patients must fight in sick rooms.

• Can reduce hospital crowding by making home environments safer for isolation.

Kills more pathogens, rapidly.

• Highly effective against an exceptionally broad range of viruses, bacteria, molds & fungi.

• Disinfection is rapid and powerful, so brief contact still kills many germs.

• Very low concentrations can kill pathogens in water & reduce food spoilage.

• Penetrates biofilms to kill pathogens more deeply than other disinfectants.

• Almost no organisms can build up resistance.

It is potent, so much less chemical is needed and transport is easier. Disinfecting solution can be easily made using local water.

• Only 10-20% as much chemical is required for the same effectiveness as bleach (sodium hypochlorite).

• Less affected by organic contaminants and pH variations.

• Less wasting due to expiration after mixing. Various solutions are effective 5-14 days (versus only 1-2 days for bleach).

• Basic training enables simple, safe mixing by local people.

Environmentally friendly.

• Unlike bleach, creates no cancer-causing byproducts.

• Less waste from disposable bottles and wipes.

  • Individuals can refill spray bottles or exchange for newly refilled; or individuals can use tablets to make fresh solution.

• Disinfecting reactions result mostly in inert chemicals.