Great Gadget for Water Conservation and Hand Hygiene Released

Online, November 26, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Two issues which really plague our society - Water and Health. Neosphere in association with TRUSTT-NGO has conveniently and seamlessley solved these two issues with an efficient and cost effective product - A FOOT OPERATED SINK TAP.

WATER CONSERVATION IS NO LONGER IN YOUR HANDS - its in your feet.

Having been in the water conservation field for several years our quest was to find a solution which would achieve maximum savings without altering the lifestyle of the user. Several soft solutions like bathing with a bucket etc fail due to this very factor. Also, realising that there was no single, magic-wand solution to address all areas of water wastage, we focussed our scope to one common household culprit, the SINK TAP.

EVERY DROP IS PRECIOUS, BUT DO WE CARE ENOUGH?

All of us waste a lot of potable water when we brush, wash or shave at the sink. This is because our hands are otherwise occupied and we cannot constantly operate the tap in short bursts. Children especially are bigger wasters since they live in an adult-friendly world and cannot even reach the tap. This made it obvious that the solution lay in shifting controls from "busy hands to idle feet" and the unanimous choice was a Foot operated tap faucet.
But one look at the few models available proved why this old,old (but very effective) concept was neither popular nor easily available. They were cumbersome, bulky, needed an expensive professional plumber to install and marred the floor of the bathroom. It was essentially a tap mounted near the foot with 2 large pipes connected. The other alternate, an infrared sensor tap has more snob value, is expensive and is not retro-fittable.

We then set out to re-think, re-design and re-engineer, in short, ressurect a foot tap in a new 21 century avatar.

Thus was born the Water Eco'n Miser.

* WaterMiser foot tap faucets can be easily installed without tools in under 2 minutes by the customer. The services of a plumber are not needed as there is no plumbling needed.
* WaterMiser foot tap faucets can be retro fitted on any existing sink tap.
* WaterMiser foot tap faucets need no power to operate as they are totally mechanical, yet sleek and elegant.
* The foot pedal of the WaterMiser foot tap is not screwed to the floor as these are a health hazard and can cause severe injuries due to tripping in wet areas. Also it facilitates 'lift & clean'. To ensure longevity, the pedal is made of ungreakable polypropelene plastic.
* They are light enough to be couriered anywhere . (A great gift too)
* WaterMiser foot tap faucets also save power which would be used to pump water to overhead tanks and also to the state which has to pump water from great distances.

HAND HYGIENE SAVES LIVES

Another big advantage of a WaterMiser foot tap is that of hand hygiene. Several deadly diseases like swine flu (H1N1), influenza, Hepatitis A, diarrhea etc are transmitted when you touch a dirty tap handle. You wash and scrub and disinfect - but you touch a tap to turn off the water. Do we wash and scrub and disinfect again? Do we know who touched the tap before we did or worse, what they touched before they toched the tap?
A WaterMiser foot tap is an essential tool in this fight and is very effective in [i]hospitals, hotels, offices, educational institutions, residences, factories, public rest rooms[/i] etc.

We also conduct free school programs to sensitise children on these two very important issues. We install WaterMiser foot taps in the schools for the children to experience the benefits and ease of use.

We are proud to have supplied to several organisations, notably UNICEF, BEL, several schools,hotels and hospitals.