With today’s more powerful and more frequent storms, natural disasters, and infrastructure crippling emergencies, the question is not “if” water distribution system failures will occur — but when. Water utility service providers responsible for creating and implementing regional and municipal emergency plans now have a rapid-response tool that enables distributing drinking water anywhere in their service area to thousands of people in need — the Emergency Water Distribution Unit™ (EWDU) from SCG Process. Purpose-built as a mobile water distribution station, the EWDU enables rapidly filling and dispensing thousands of 5-liter water bags to large crowds, while also accommodating manually filling of any size water container.
Envisioned, scoped, and constructed in close collaboration with expert municipal emergency response teams, the flexible, modular, and comprehensively equipped SCG Process Emergency Water Distribution Units are “ultra-designed” down to the finest details to ensure rapid mobile deployment, operational simplicity, rugged reliability, and ergonomic usability for maintaining efficient crew operation during high-stress emergency response efforts. EWDUs share much of the same standardized equipment and industry operational approaches found within water treatment plants and water distribution field infrastructure, enabling quicker operational familiarity and easier training for both experienced and novice EWDU operators.
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