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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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