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Iron
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Roughing
Filters
International/
Emergency
Water
Re-Use
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About Us
Our
Mission
Blue Future Filters Inc. was established in 2003 to help provide clean
drinking water systems for the world. It is our mission to provide non-chemical
drinking water systems that are economical, efficient, appropriate,
and available to a wide variety of locations, peoples, and applications.
We want to make clean water accessible to as many people worldwide as
possible. We uphold the ideals of sustainability because it is our belief
that in the long run, reliance on high-tech equipment, membranes, toxic
chemicals, and gas- and electric-intensive systems are not the answers
to supplying the world's urgent need for quality drinking water.
Who
we are

Humphrey Blackburn
President and founder
Humphrey has 25 years experience with water systems. He
became interested in developing slow sand filters while pursuing a masters
degree in the late 1980s. His first SSF project was for his thesis and
involved creating a slow sand filtration system for the residents of
a small community in the mountains of Chiapas,
Mexico. After he
received his Masters in Environmental Systems - International Development
Technology from Humboldt State
University in 1995, he founded
Blackburn and Associates, a research, design
and consulting firm that specializes in sustainable water treatment
technologies including slow sand filters, iron filters, roughing filters,
wastewater treatment, piping and control systems.
In 2003, Humphrey formed Blue Future Filters
in Santa Rosa, California
to manufacture and market the filtration systems developed by Blackburn
& Associates. To further expand his business, and be closer to family,
Humphrey and his wife Xan relocated from California
to Bellingham, Washington,
where he opened a second manufacturing location in early 2005.

Peter Blackburn
Operations Manager
Peter has worked in the production arm of Blue Future Filters
since the inception of the company in 2003 in Santa Rosa, and became
the operations manager for the Bellingham
facility in 2005. He is responsible for managing projects and working
with suppliers, customers, and operators to manage the production and
implementation of each system that comes through the Bellingham
facility. He has also worked as the company's liaison to Engineers Without
Borders groups and other development NGOs, having done field work on
two ongoing EWB projects. He is a 1999 graduate from the University
of California at Berkeley.
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