Original upload date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Sat, 04 Dec 2021 21:20:07 GMT
About Rupayan Sansthan
The Arna-Jharna: The Desert Museum of Rajasthan (an Ethnographic Museum) “Envisioned by Padam Bhushan Komal Kothari this museum celebrates the traditional knowledge systems of
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the desert linking everyday cultural practices to larger ecological concerns.”
About G-Filter
A gravity based filter was recently on display at last year’s India International Science Fest held at National Physical Laboratories at New Delhi. G-Filter gets its name from the word ‘gravity’. This became a product of great demand for households after Rupayan Sansthan, an NGO, introduced this filter after several workshops through their Mud Research Centre at Arna Jharna Museum in Jodhpur Rajasthan. This is observed a cost effective way to provide water across rural areas of India as well as sustaining potter skill and tradition.
Here salty clay found in the Luni basin areas is mixed with equal volume of organic matter (Kaurwar et al. 2017, Gupta et al 2016). This is blended with marble powder waste up to 2-3% by volume and water to 50% by volume of clay and organic matter (Gupta et al. 2016). This blended dough is press formed to frustum shaped geometries with an approximate volume of 18l. Once cured, they are baked in an open hearth kiln. This baked ware christened the “ G-Filter” permit water to percolate through it at a rate of 1.5 to 2.25 l/h in fully filled condition. It provides bacteria free water [Gupta et al. 2016, Soyam et al. 2016).
Rupayan Sansthan, Jodhpur supports vision of Potter for Peace.
