drinking water filter Articles
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Assessment of a membrane drinking water filter in an emergency setting
The performance and acceptability of the NeroxTM membrane drinking water filter were evaluated among an internally displaced population in Pakistan. The membrane filter and a control ceramic candle filter were distributed to over 3,000 households. Following a 6-month period, 230 households were visited and filter performance and use were assessed. Only 6% of the visited households still ...
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Reverse osmosis and removal of minerals from drinking water
Reverse Osmosis will generally remove salt, manganese, iron, flouride, lead, and calcium (Binnie et. al., 2002). Most mineral constituents of water are physically larger than water molecules and they are trapped by the semi-permeable membrane and removed from drinking water when filtered through a RO (AllAboutWater.org, 2004). Meanwhile, consumers are concerned about the removal of minerals ...
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Evaluation of household drinking water filter distribution programs in Haiti
Household water treatment (HWT) can reduce the diarrheal disease burden in populations without access to safe water. We evaluated five programs that distributed biosand, ceramic, or Sawyer filters in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake and cholera outbreak. We conducted household surveys and tested Escherichia coli and turbidity in stored household untreated and treated water in ∼50 randomly ...
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Effectiveness of silver and copper infused ceramic drinking water filters in reducing microbiological contaminants
A series of bench-scale experiments were conducted on ceramic filters with various amounts of silver and/or copper nanoparticles fired-in during the manufacturing process. The experiments were designed to determine the efficacy of the filters on the removal of pathogens from drinking water. Escherichia coli and MS2 were employed as non-pathogenic surrogates for pathogenic organisms. ...
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Hom ’: a simple point of use water treatment deviceThis study sought to explore a locally assembled ‘Hom’ point of use water treatment device by assessing aspects of its performance and possible effects of using it on compliant households and communities. The conceptual framework highlights poverty and environmental degradation as causes and consequences of one another, with ill-health caused by water-borne diseases reinforcing both to form a ...
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[Technical Paper] Biomass Evolution in Full-Scale Drinking Water Filters
After nearly two-years of work, we could advance our understanding of ATP measurement in drinking water biofilters. I will describe some of the background and key results from the study below – more information is provided in the Journal AWWA December 2016 article. Background of the Study. Amina Stoddart, a PhD student at our Water Studies lab at Dalhousie, led a project that collected ...
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gaiasafe filter products for drinking water purification - Case Study
Problem In some water works chlorination of drinking water is used to eliminate mikrobes. Chlorinated water may have disagreable taste and smell. Some water works use aluminium salts to clean the water. This leads to low concentrations of aluminium in drinking water. Today it is known that aluminium may be toxic to men. Old piping installations inside or outside private homes often where made of ...
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Global Month of Impact Wine to Water in Portland
May is Autodesk’s annual Global Month of Impact. The Impact Team here in the Portland office held 3 sessions assembling water filters to be shipped around the globe to those that need them to filter water for drinking. 47 awesome Autodesk Portland employees participated! 60 filters were completed that will provide 10,000 gallons of clean water a year for up to 10 years and Sawyer the ...
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Calculation of ceramic pot filter hydraulic conductivity using falling-head data
Flowrate is used as a predictor of ceramic pot filter (CPF) disinfection effectiveness, and the relationship between flowrate and porosity has been examined in several studies. However, hydraulic conductivity, not porosity, is the constant of proportionality that describes flow through porous media. Equations have been developed to estimate the hydraulic conductivity of CPF side walls and bottom ...
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Field investigation of arsenic in ceramic pot filter-treated drinking water
Ceramic pot filters (CPFs) is one of several household water treatment technologies that is used to treat drinking water in developing areas. The filters have the advantage of being able to be manufactured using primarily locally available materials and local labor. However, naturallyoccurring arsenic present in the clay used to make the filters has the potential to contaminate the water in ...
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Performance assessment of modified biosand filter with an extra disinfection layer
Biosand filters (BSFs) have been used widely as an efficient, inexpensive, and appropriate point-of-use technology. Several organizations are promoting filters without adequate testing, which may not lead to sufficiently safe devices. The objective of this study was to evaluate the performance of a modified biosand filter (MBSF) with an extra disinfection layer (brass or zero valent iron ...
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Effects of tap water processing on the concentration of disinfection by-products
Aim: This study examined the effects on disinfection by-product (DBP) concentrations of common household methods for processing drinking water.Methods: We investigated the effects of refrigerator storage, jug filtering, boiling in an electric kettle, and supply from an instant boiling water unit, with or without filtering, on four species of trihalomethanes (THMs) and nine species of haloacetic ...
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Kinetico Incorporated fact sheet
PROFILE Kinetico is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of water treatment products with specialized products serving residential, commercial, industrial and municipal markets. RESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS Water conditioners Water softeners Drinking water systems (reverse osmosis) Carbon filters Waterplants (combined conditioner/drinking water system) Backwashing filters ...
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A farewell to sand filters
By replacing the filter sand with Filtralite, Bedrichov Water Treatment Plant reduced energy cost by 75 %, doubled the production capacity of each filter and today delivers the best drinking water ever A new filtering medium is born After six months of testing the new filtering medium Filtralite in full operation at Bedrichov Water, regional manager Ladislav Rainis (right) and local ...
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Bacteria removal effectiveness of ceramic pot filters not applied with colloidal silver
In many developing countries such as Guatemala, access to safe drinking water is very limited. Many sources of water that are available are contaminated with bacteria, particularly Escherichia coli and other coliform bacteria. In order to provide a means of obtaining safe drinking water in developing countries, various methods of treating water at the household level have been developed and ...
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Why Everyone Should Drink Filtered Water
Your body is made up of a lot of water; 60 to 65 percent to be exact. The water that you drink each day helps to replenish your body and give you strength. But, if you’re drinking water that contains heavy amounts of chemicals, metals, and other harmful ingredients, what does that say about your body composition? Untreated water could be responsible for a number of different health and ...
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Why Everyone Should Drink Filtered Water
Your body is made up of a lot of water; 60 to 65 percent to be exact. The water that you drink each day helps to replenish your body and give you strength. But, if you’re drinking water that contains heavy amounts of chemicals, metals, and other harmful ingredients, what does that say about your body composition? Untreated water could be responsible for a number of different health and ...
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Reverse osmosis: Whether a concern over the removal of minerals or not?
Reverse Osmosis will generally remove salt, manganese, iron, flouride, lead, and calcium (Binnie et. al., 2002). Most mineral constituents of water are physically larger than water molecules and they are trapped by the semi-permeable membrane and removed from drinking water when filtered through a RO (AllAboutWater.org, 2004). Meanwhile, consumers are concerned about the removal of minerals ...
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Silt Fence installation efficacy: Definitive research calls for toughening specifications and introducing new technology
Introduction: Silt fence is a joke on many construction sites. It is often seen just blowing in the wind, or sagging and broken down. Some specifiers won’t utilize silt fence on their sites because it is too often installed improperly, and not maintained. Yet, the need for effective on-site sediment control has never been greater. Sediment-laden runoff has been shown to result in the loss ...
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Endospore recovery from large volumes using fieldable ultrafiltration for the diagnosis of drinking water treatment plants
Anaerobic sulfite-reducing and aerobic spore-forming bacteria are used as indicators to verify the reliability of water treatment plant efficiency. The objectives of this study aimed to highlight the more accurate endospore indicator for water treatment monitoring and to select an efficient filtration system in order to detect low amounts of endospores from large volumes. The performance of two ...
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