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Purifying Water
Ensuring Safe Drinking Water
Waterborne diseases are illnesses caused by microscopic organisms, like viruses and bacteria, that are ingested through contaminated water or by coming in contact with feces. If every person on the planet practiced safe sanitation and hygiene and drank only clean water, these diseases would not exist.
Ensuring safe drinking water is a three-step process. The first involves removing obvious debris. The second is filtration which removes toxic particles. The third is disinfecting the water. Many ways exist to ensure that water is safe to drink.
Sometimes we have water available, but that water might not be fit to use. In this case, we either use it as is and face the consequences like toxicity or waterborne diseases or do what it takes to ensure that the water is safe to use.
Removing Debris
One of the ways that we get water is through rainwater and one of the easy ways to ensure that the rainwater has debris removed is by creating or purchasing a first flush system that washes the dirt from the roof so that the water is clean.
If water comes from another source like a stream, filtering the water through some sort of sieve will be necessary before going on to the following steps.