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How can contaminated water be treated to make it safe for drinking?
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∙ 13y ago
Because no water treatment process can protect against all impurities, it's important to find out what contaminants are present. If you have a private well, consider having the water tested. If you have a public water supply, contact the local water utility to see if they can give you a detailed water quality report showing what impurities remain in the water being delivered to your tap.
Once you determine what contaminants are present, you can then look to see if any water treatment systems have been independently tested and verified to effectively address those issues. The website nsf.org/consumer can help consumers verify if a product they are considering purchasing is certified to reduce the contaminants claimed by the manufacturer.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y agoBoiling can be the easiest and the best method in the event of an emergency. You can also use distillation or reverse osmosis. Many people just by a water purification filter system from places like Wal-Mart.
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How long do you wait to drink water that has been contaminated?
Forever unless you have treated the water to make it potable.
How do you cure water before drinking?
If by "cure" you mean make safe to drink, it can be boiled, or treated with a disinfecting chemical, such as chlorine. It can also be treated with ultraviolet light.
Is contaminated water good for you?
That really depends on what the water is contaminated with.However contaminated usually means dirty, foul, toxic.Therefore contaminated water is generally not good to drink, could make you ill and may even kill you.
Why is drinking water usually treated before it come out the faucet?
To remove disease organisms that would make you sick, and to improve the taste and clarity of the water.
Can dirty water effect your health?
This depends entirely on why the water is dirty. If the water is contaminated with chemical pollutants or pathogenic organisms it could make you very sick if you drank it. If on the other hand the water is merely contaminated with clay or silt it is unlikely that there would be many negative health effects. As a general rule however, avoid drinking any water that you do not know to be safe.
Does putting water in the fridge make it safe to drink?
No, if the water is contaminated then refrigeration will NOT make it safe to drink.
How can you avoid hyponatraemia?
Avoid certain medications and drinking too much water without salt in the diet. Make sure health problems that cause it are treated.
Does drinking pop make you urinate more than water?
No, drinking water will make you urinate more than drinking soda. This is because the water cleans the toxins out of your body.
What can you make questions regard about deep well as a source of potable drinking water?
Drinking water
Why can't ocean water be treted to make drinking water?
Ocean Water can be treated through the process of desallination which removes the salt and other contaminants. This process can make fresh water from ocean water, but the process of desallination is very expensive, and too arduous to rely on as a significant source of fresh, drinkable water.
If drinking water make you grow?
haha unfortunatly no...water can not make you grow.
Drinking water scarcity?
the fresh water that we need is not equally distributed.Some places get more rainfall,and some get less.Even if there is plenty of rainfall,the water may run off down a hill slope,instead of being absorbed by the soil.This happens because of deforestation.If there less trees then who will absorb the rainwater
