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How Water Filtration Eliminates Contaminants in Drinking Water

Welcome! This lens discusses where the contaminants in our drinking water come from, and how water filtration works to eliminate them. Read about water-related diseases, the need for clean water in the developing countries, and what you can do about it.

Water, The Source of Life

What's Happening to the Water?

Water is a gift of nature

The total amount of water on the earth is finite, while man's capacity for pollution is accelerating fast with the growth of population, agriculture and industry across the globe. Local water bodies may very quickly be exhausted and become polluted due to greed and ignorance; water can become a source of death and disease rather than life.

Today, at least one-fifth of all people worldwide lack access to safe drinking water.

In developing countries, most cities discharge 80 to 90 % of the untreated sewage directly into rivers and streams, which are used for drinking, bathing and washing. This lack of sewage treatment has allowed dangerous microorganisms to spread water-borne diseases; particularly diseases transmitted by vectors which live in the water environment account for about a third of all deaths in the world.

The growing pollution of our rivers constitutes the biggest threat to public health.

Polluted waters lead to various gastrointestinal problems, liver infections, cancer, etc. Children are often the worst affected, dying in large numbers because of diarrhea. Even in the 1990s more than 1 million children died due to diarrhea and other gastrointestinal disorders.

Naïade; the mobile water purifier for developing countries

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Water Statistics

The need is great in the Developing World!

1 billion people do not have access to safe drinking water

2.9 billion people do not have adequate sanitation facilities

11,000 children die each day of water-related diseases

Water-related diseases

The water-related infections of man are extremely numerous and diverse. In general the following are the ways in which diseases may be carried by water.

* Pathogenic organisms are transmitted from one person to another through their domestic water supply. (e.g.) cholera, typhoid and hepatitis.

* Inadequate water supply, lack of personal cleanliness (e.g.) trachoma and skin infection

* Infection transmitted by organisms which live in water. (e.g.) helminths (parasitic flukes) that spend part of their life cycle in water.

* Insect vectors which are related in some way to water transmit inflection. (e.g.) yellow fever, malaria etc.

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Protection Against Water-Borne Diseases

Water Filtration Tips

It is necessary to be careful about the water you drink and the water you bathe in, since water is a carrier for a number of diseases.

Drinking water

* Filter water with a good quality purifier (ultraviolet or reverse osmosis)

* Boil un-treated water to 100°C for 10 to 15 minutes

* All fruit and vegetables that will not be cooked must be peeled after soaking them in treated water

* Do not eat ice-creams, drinks, etc., sold by street vendors

* Clean your teeth preferably with treated water
Important!

Your Water - Your Health

What you put into your body affects your health.
Make it your business to know what you are drinking. There are contaminants in bottled water that you need to be aware of.

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Have You Tested Your Water Lately?

Water Filtration Tip: Test your water before you spend money on water filters or treatment systems.

Important Blogs About Water

Water Filtration Tips and Other Important Information

Governor Signs Bill Supporting State-run Water Quality Standards
Governor Rick Scott this week signed a bill supporting the state's right to direct and establish its own set of scientific criteria for its water bodies. Sponsored in the Florida Senate by the Environmental Preservation and Conservation Committee ...
St. John residents asked to conserve water after oil spill on Mississippi River
By The Times-Picayune Although St. John the Baptist Parish's drinking water supply is adequate, parish officials are asking residents and businesses to conserve water since it has closed two of its intake valves in the Mississippi River following an ...
California water bill approved by key panel
WASHINGTON ? San Joaquin Valley farmers would secure more water and an ambitious river restoration plan would be curtailed under a far-reaching California bill approved by a key House panel Thursday night. Opposed by the Brown administration in ...
Pursuit of Shale Gas May Contaminate Water, Says UT Study, But It's Not Due to ...
But water well owners complaining of cloudy, foul-smelling water shortly after nearby fracking operations begin may be onto something "It appears that many of the water quality changes observed in water wells in a similar time frame as shale gas ...
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Water Resources

Water Test Kits
Clear directions, easy methods, and top quality non-toxic test ingredients assure you of reliable test results.
5-stage Reverse Osmosis System
Under the Counter Reverse Osmosis System provides safe, pure water using Reverse Osmosis Technology. It's capable of removing over 90% of total dissolved solids, +99% of all organics and +99% of all bacteria.

Websites of Interest

Excel Water Technologies
Offers reverse osmosis water filters, softeners, and purification as well as under the counter water treatment.
Green Living - Water Bottles Which One Should You Use
What type of re-usable water bottle should you use?
LensMasterWorld.com
A directory for Squidoo Lensmasters.
Purging Plastic - Safe Reusable, Alternative Water Bottles
A squidoo site that talks about plastic water bottles.

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