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2. Reverse osmosis - Wikipedia

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   Household RO units use a lot of water because they have low back pressure. Household RO water purifiers typically produce one liter of usable water and 3-25 liters of wastewater. [34] The remainder is discharged, usually into the drain. Because wastewater carries the rejected contaminants, recovering this water is not practical for household ...

3. History of water filters - Wikipedia

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   Hippocrates believed that water had to be clean and pure. Rainwater was the best water, but had to be boiled and strained before drinking to get rid of the "bad smell" and to avoid hoarseness of the voice. [3] [4] He designed a crude water filter to “purify” the water he used for his patients. Later known as the “Hippocratic sleeve ...

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   Kent County Cricket Club, a first-class county club of England and Wales; Kent County League, a step 6 National Football League feeding into the Southern Counties East League. Kent Football United F.C., was a semi-professional football club dissolved 2022; Kent Rugby Football Union, the governing body for rugby in the county of Kent

5. Reverse osmosis plant - Wikipedia

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   Reverse osmosis is a common process to purify or desalinate contaminated water by forcing water through a membrane. Water produced by reverse osmosis may be used for a variety of purposes, including desalination , wastewater treatment , concentration of contaminants, and the reclamation of dissolved minerals. [ 1 ]

6. Water purification - Wikipedia

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   Complete removal of ions from water is possible if the right conditions are met. The water is normally pre-treated with a reverse osmosis unit to remove non-ionic organic contaminants, and with gas transfer membranes to remove carbon dioxide. A water recovery of 99% is possible if the concentrate stream is fed to the RO inlet.

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