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2. Portable water purification - Wikipedia

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   Carrying iodine for water purification is an imperfect but lightweight solution for those in need of field purification of drinking water. Kits are available in camping stores that include an iodine pill and a second pill (vitamin C or ascorbic acid) that will remove the iodine taste from the water after it has been disinfected. The addition of ...

3. Water purification - Wikipedia

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   The practice of water treatment soon became mainstream and common, and the virtues of the system were made starkly apparent after the investigations of the physician John Snow during the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak. Snow was sceptical of the then-dominant miasma theory that stated that diseases were caused by noxious "bad airs".

4. Solar water disinfection - Wikipedia

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   Solar water disinfection (SODIS) application in Indonesia using clear polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic beverage bottles. Solar water disinfection, in short SODIS, is a type of portable water purification that uses solar energy to make biologically-contaminated (e.g. bacteria, viruses, protozoa and worms) water safe to drink.

5. Activated carbon - Wikipedia

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   Basically, iodine number is a measure of the iodine adsorbed in the pores and, as such, is an indication of the pore volume available in the activated carbon of interest. Typically, water-treatment carbons have iodine numbers ranging from 600 to 1100. Frequently, this parameter is used to determine the degree of exhaustion of a carbon in use.

6. Reverse osmosis - Wikipedia

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   The water is distilled multiple times to ensure that it does not leave deposits on the machinery or cause corrosion. RO is used to clean effluent and brackish groundwater. The effluent in larger volumes (more than 500 m 3 /day) is treated in a water treatment plant first, and then the effluent runs through RO. This hybrid process reduces ...

7. The Fight to Free Kidney Dialysis Patients From Their Bulky ...

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   This complexity is one of the reasons that only around 10 percent of dialysis patients receive treatment at home. Jshon Thomas prepares the materials needed for his home dialysis treatment in a ...