Aid, Relief and Security Teams

Controlling the Spread of Disease

The World Health Organisation states that the single most important thing to save lives is to wash hands to help reduce the risk of spreading disease, especially post-disaster before any proper form of sanitation can be re-established. Bottleshower™ provides the primary means to achieve this.

 According to The Johns Hopkins and The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the average water use for drinking, cooking and personal hygiene by a single individual is at least 15 litres a day, in a disaster zone that will need to drop to 7.5 litres for drinking cooking and washing . If 1 litre of water used for personal hygiene was increased up to 10 times by using Bottleshower™, the benefit in effective washing time compared to simply poured water would be an additional 10 litres. By being able to use clean water in an easily distributable way means that washing regimes can be effectively introduced reducing the spread of disease.

Emergency tented camps are a typical scenario where the introduction of washing regimes is crucial to the wellbeing of its inhabitants. Bottleshower™ equipment has been tested effectively in refugee camps in Jordan providing the ability to provide shower facilities in private, particularly useful when washing and bathing children. 

Used for hand washing the volume of water used has been notably less than when using conventional pouring. (Source OXFAM).

Designed to benefit  frontline personnel in arduous conditions

Bottleshower™ is an excellent aid in the treatment of Heat and Chemical Burns, irrigating wounds, treating heat stroke as well as helping with personal hygiene. 
For temporary or emergency shower facilities the shower head push fits into the Standard MOD/NATO 20 litre Water carrier, providing 10 minutes of shower time from 10 litres of water. The water carrier is suspended using the hanging harnesses supplied in the shower pack.

The Bottleshower™ heads can even provide a 1 or 2 minute shower using the Standard Pattern 58 OSPREY MOD/NATO drinking bottle if the Camelbak system is not part of issued kit.

Bottleshower™ also works with the range of SOURCE and PLATYPUS foldable bottles.