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What method of treating water kills microbes and removes other contaminates such as heavy metals?
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∙ 15y ago
No one method does both of these things optimally.
For drinking/potable water supplies:
* Killing microbes (bacteria, protozoa, etc.) is done with disinfection using chlorine, bromine or UV light or thermal treatment. * Heavy metals removal can be don with reverse osmosis, activated carbon filtration, deionization, coagulation precipitation and filtering, or distillation. Distillation is generally reserved for small amounts of water not municipal supplies. For Swimming Pools heavy metals are not a major concern and only disinfection is used.
For treating water (sewage or industrial wastewater) before discharge to a watercourse disinfection and filtering is generally used . The majoriyty of metals are asorbed by the activated sludge and can be removed as any solid.
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