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Do You Know How to Build a Water Purifier?
By Tony Cunningham

When it comes to drinking water, we all know something about the fact that drinking polluted water is not safe and can cause major harm or even death. Because of this, the tap water you find in your home is drinkable thanks to purifying practices, and water you find in public areas is safe to drink as well.

But what if you happen to be somewhere that doesn't offer clean, drinkable water and you don't happen to have any of your own?

Can You Survive in an Emergency?

You might ask yourself how building of a water purifier can save your life! Suppose you find yourself, for some reason, stranded in a hostile environment. Would you be able to survive without available access to food and water? This can happen to anyone, say while hiking unknown terrain, or while climbing mountains (and losing your way) for example.

Human beings can survive, according to reports, up to four weeks without food. However, they can be very susceptible to death within 48 hours without water. There is the danger of death even when you consume polluted/ contaminated water. The difference is that with lack of water you may die within two days, while drinking contaminated water may kill you slower – you would die of some infection at some point of time – unless you get medical attention.

Such examples, albeit a bit drastic, will highlight the importance of knowing how to build a water purifier out of the most primitive materials and tools.

There are four distinct ways to remove pollutants from the water too make it drinkable. Boiling the water is an acceptable measure of getting rid of the most harmful pollutants. Exposing the water to UV rays has been known to help if it's the only option you have to work with. Finally, chemical treatment and filtering are the most effective ways of cleaning water to make it drinkable.

The easiest ways to build a water purifier is by making a water boiling unit. All you need is a container where you can store water and hold it over a fire. Once it boils for 10 minutes, it should be safe to drink.

Alternatively, you can use a transparent plastic sheet to cover the mouth of a container, which would then be left totally exposed to sun rays. The plastic would ensure that the solar UV rays are caught so they can purify the water for drinking. The approximate time needed for this purpose would be between 30 minutes to 2 hours, depending upon the intensity of the sun.

A third way to build a water purifier is by running the water through something tight yet porous– like wet clay, a sand and carbon mixture, and even a cotton cloth. The tighter packed the material is, the better the purification (and filtration) would be.

Author Details:
Tony Cunningham is a gadgets fanatic writing about electrical items such as cellular mobile phones, HDTV, Satellite TV and other household gadgets such as water purifiers.

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