"Water - Better if you can drink it", with this slogan, the 5-member team of Disaster Relief Systems from the University of Leipzig, has been developing a mobile drinking water treatment plant in cooperation with the German Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) and the Arbeiter und Samariter Bund (ASB) for the past two years. In doing so, they always had a clear, socially-oriented objective: Cost-effective provision of standardized rescue technology adapted to the requirements of disaster relief organizations.
The team "Disaster Relief Systems" with John-Henning Peper as project leader, supported by the Exist founder scholarship, presented their Mobile Water Treatment Unit labelled "SAS-W2500” at Interschutz 2022 held from the 20th to 20th of June at Hanover Messe.
The event's participation aimed to subject their newly developed technology to public scrutiny and to gather expert feedback from visitors and key market players at the world's leading trade fair for rescue services, firefighters, and disaster control and security.
With the approach of developing a self-cleaning, fully-autonomous, mobile water treatment system for use in humanitarian disasters, which is easy to operate and repairable anywhere in the world, the team precisely met the demand of their targeted market as many visitors overwhelmingly expressed their interest in the product.
Soon after the trade fair started, different experts from e.g. THW SEEWA, German Red Cross, Malteser-International, and @Fire curiously visited the team to witness the invention. These experts did not only give constructive feedback on the device but most importantly, they encouraged the team to go ahead with their chosen approach to the market and also invited them to have testing phase the device with their reputable organizations soon”.
"The great interest expressed by the national and international visitors gives us further energy to pursue our goal with commitment", says Peper about the numerous impressions of the trade fair.
Interschutz in Hanover brought together 85,000 people from 61 countries. The more than 1,300 exhibitors offered visitors a stage for their products, developments, and services for civil security from the fields of prevention, rescue, and defence on 80,000 m² distributed over 8 halls for 6 days. The range of products on display included rescue technology, rescue vehicle, extinguishing systems, medical equipment, as well as control centre technology, signalling technology, protective equipment, and equipment for fire stations, workshops, and aid organizations.
