The WATERMAKER system represents a major advance in water purification technology. It is so simple in concept and execution that only the most basic supervision is required to provide a reliable source of pure drinking water. The WATERMAKER successfully overcomes the shortcomings of traditional small-scale water purification plants by eliminating complicated controls and procedures.

In this respect all WATERMAKER plants are unique in that no knowledge of chemical dosing, pH, flocculation, or their adjustment is required to operate a plant successfully on an on-going basis. The quality of potable water is maintained regardless of fluctuating raw water turbidity – due to rainfall or varying river flows – which may affect some types of small-scale purification plants.

The WATERMAKER system utilises a unique flocculent composition, which has been proven in South Africa, and other countries, to be extremely effective in the clarification of any naturally polluted raw water source, regardless of turbidity, at a single fixed dosage.

WATERMAKER powder is based on the well-known "Chlor-Floc" tablets and powders. The composition is identical in all aspects except that it does not contain chlorine.

It is doubtful whether any other field pick-up purification chemical or device has been tested so stringently and has passed so many tests as Chlor-Floc. A 1986 protocol, published by the EPA, requires the testing of water purifiers in a simulated worst case water, defined by the EPA and containing salts, humic substances, colloidal material and very severe contamination with enteric bacteria, resistant viruses and Giardia cysts.