Humanitarian Relief

Twenty-First century technology solving age-old problems.

LIFESAVER® offers a low-cost, instant and long-term solution to supplying drinking water where it’s most needed. The LIFESAVER® bottle and Jerrycan use an activated carbon filter and unique, patented pump system to provide safe drinking water in even the harshest of conditions.

LIFESAVER® technology provides clean sterile drinking water for as little as 8 cents per liter. Our patented Jerrycan provides a family with sufficient drinking water for up to 5 years. No need to resupply, no ongoing support required. Minimizing preventable water-borne disease also saves money on traveling and medications for treatment.

User independence

LIFESAVER® offers dignity. Without reliance on daily handouts of water or purification tablets, a family or community can gather their own water when they need it; restoring independence and pride.

Ease of transportation

One standard sized pallet of LIFESAVER® Jerrycans is the equivalent of transporting 1 million liters of bottled water. A single pallet weighs just 220 kilograms and can be transported over difficult terrain by a small van, or in smaller quantities by horseback or canoe. It would require 14 large transport planes to move the same quantity of bottled water.

Safety

Carrying water long distances from wells or pumps is no longer necessary when local water sources such as river or rainwater are available.

Making the most of NGO time while on the ground

Children need at least ½ gallon of water each day to survive. 1 LIFESAVER® Jerrycan can produce up to 20,000 liters of clean water. That’s enough safe drinking water for a family of 4 for up to 5 years. All it takes is minutes of training and the aid agency can move on to help others. There's no maintenance.

Store water dirty: clean it instantly

In the past, large quantities of clean water might be transported long distances only to be stored on location in dirty containers. Leaving the water “dirty” until the very point of use means it's guaranteed clean at the point of consumption.

Proven in the fight against cholera

By leaving water in the natural environment and using the LIFESAVER Jerrycan to filter it only at the exact time it is needed, LIFESAVER® eliminated cholera from effected villages in Haiti.

Reduced plastic waste

Humanitarian organizations may inadvertently make a heavy environmental impact. This can be dramatically reduced by the use of LIFESAVER® technology – less plastic bottles being distributed means less pollution at the point of manufacture and less plastic waste at the point of use.

Buy One and Gift One

As part of LIFESAVER’s “Buy one Gift one Program,” our water appeal for Haiti gives our consumers the opportunity to gift a LIFESAVER® 4000UF bottle to a Haitian family in need. These bottles are used to supply young families with clean drinking water and by mothers to sterilize the water they use to make up infant milk formula.

Download the Humanitarian Products Brochure (PDF)