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EMTM and Measures Against disasters(Proposal)

March 28, 2011
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Practical use of EMTM Application in times of disasterThe best way of applying EMTM in a time of disaster is to spray (or scatter) as much as
you can in a place or a thing that produced foul odors such as for restrooms or thedecayed food until the mental discomfort is gone.
Common issues raised in disaster areas
 Sanitation problem
 Water-related issues
Countermeasures for sanitation problem with EMTM
 Suppress putrid (decomposing) smell
It is often seen that food in the refrigerator goes bad and produces a foul odor at thedisaster area due to the power outage. In such case, it is easily increased thedisease-causing bacteria and therefore disaster victims especially people with aweakened immune system have a great risk of getting infected. Thus, spraying
Activated EM･1 ®(AEM) helps not only reducing the foul odor, but also suppressing thepathogens growth.
 Countermeasures for foul odors in restrooms and some other places
Temporary restroom facilities are usually placed near residential area, and the foulodor comes from the restrooms cause a severe stress to people who live around there.
In such a case, applying EMTM Bokashi to the toilet helps the people reduce their stress.
 Water treatment for general use (non-drinking water)
When the clean-water supply system breaks down due to the disaster, the water thatmight contain the pathogens would be used. In such a case, adding AEM (1,000 times
to water) and EMTM ceramics (5,000-10,000 times to water) in a bucket of water helpsto control pathogens.
 Skin brushing with AEM (substitute for taking a shower/bath)To wipe your whole body with a towel (or a piece of cloth) steeped in the diluted AEM
with water (10 - 1,000 times) helps suppress the growth of bacteria on the bodysurface and then prevents infection or catching a cold.

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Countermeasures for water issues with EMTM
The way to ensure safe drinking water isa serious problem in times of disasterbecause the clean-water supply system
breaks down and therefore theemergency water supply service is theonly way to get drinkable water. Also, weuse water not only for cooking but also
for many other purposes. As shown theGraph 1, the majority of the water inhousehold is used for non-drinking or
cookingpurpose;
therefore,
theimportant thing at the time of disaster isthat how effectively you can use thewater for those purposes.

Use of Tap Water in Household

Other
8%
Shower/Bath24%

Cooking22%

Laundry
22%
Toilet24%

Graph 1

 Laundry/Washing clothes
When looking at the “laundry” in the Figure 1, you can see the almost one-fourth ofthe total is used for laundry. The water with machine wash can be used only once andmoreover, when you use the detergent, you cannot recycle the used water.
Here we recommend using EMTM for laundry.
First, ferment EM･1® with rice rinsed water (making “EM Fermented Rice RinsedWater”). Second, dilute the “EM Fermented Rice Rinsed Water” with water (500-1,000times) and then soak the dirty clothes in the diluted “EM Fermented Rice Rinsed Water”
overnight. By doing so, it easily removes the dirt on clothes. Finally, rinse the clothes
lightly and dry them in the sun. The supernatant part of the used water can be reused
for washing clothes again.
 Restrooms/Toilets
As mentioned earlier, the foul odor in a restroom becomes a problem at the time ofdisaster. This is usually because we cannot flush the toilet due to the water outage. In
this case especially for temporary restroom facilities, to scatter EMTM Bokashi or AEM
after use prevents the foul odor and facilitates to decompose the waste. This alsoenables us to reduce the number of flush toilets and save water as well.

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pg. 4 Taking a shower/bath
It is difficult to secure water for a shower/bath at the time of disaster. For substitute fortaking a bath, “Skin Brushing with EMTM” stated earlier is recommended.
Conclusion for water issues
Because we can reuse the water forother purposes by applying EMTM, themost of the water supplied from public
sectors in times of disaster can be usedfor drinking and cooking.

The Indispensalbe Use of Water(with the Application of EMTM)

Other8%

Cooking
22%

Shower/Ba
th24%
Laundry
22%
Toilet24%

The way of EMTM cultivation in times of disaster
It would be better to use the boiled river water or sea water to make AEM because
there will be lack of the tap water and well water in times of disaster. The use of sea
water enables to make more AEM.
The way of applying EMTM in the past disaster
Recently, the news of natural disaster takes people’s attention in Japan. Especially
today, there are many voices of warning about Tokai Earthquake (the Pacific coast ofcentral Japan at 200km to the southwest of Tokyo) and Nankai Earthquake (off theCoast of Shikoku Island in the southwest of Japan). Therefore, we shall introduce a few
examples of EMTM application in the time of past disasters as follows: Example of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, JapanVolunteers who regularly use EMTM in daily life applied EM･1® and EMTM Bokashi toreduce foul odors coming from temporary toilets and succeeded to eliminate the odors.
Moreover, EMTM was used to control odors coming from garbage cans.
 Example of Taiwan Earthquake, Taiwan
EMRO manufactured and donated EM・1® in disaster areas. Those EMTM solutions wereapplied to suppress foul odors coming from toilets and the collapsed livestock barns.

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Learning from the EMTM applications in the time of past disasters
In times of disaster, there would be various negative factors to make AEM such as
blockade of transportation and water outage. Also, to force the victims to use EMTM
without their wills at the chaos after the disaster may cause them to get exhausted or
stressful despite of the fact that EMTM application is useful and effective.
So, how should we use EMTM as measures against natural disasters?
It is important for us to feel that EMTM is essential to our daily life. So, place EM･1®
within your reach in order to use it whenever you need and keep using it at any time sothat the use of EM･1® would become a part of your daily routine. As a result, EMTM
would be something essential for you even in times of disaster.
At the end
Even through the concept for natural disaster/hazard prevention is widespread inJapan these days, we have a tendency to see it from the third person because thenatural disaster is unusual and extraordinary event to us. However, no one can predict
when it happens, and by the time we noticed, it would be too late to prevent. Thus, themeasures against natural disaster must be prepared beforehand.
What we need to do is to keep our awareness of disaster prevention in daily life, anddo not forget to live an EMTM Lifestyle that is to use EMTM everyday; this is part ofdisaster-prevention activities.

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