[permaculture] Drinking Water
Robyn Francis
erda at nor.com.au
Wed Dec 5 23:22:22 EST 2007
Hi - thought this might be useful for you...
Simple and effective Water filter
mix coffee grounds with clay to make filter containers and fire in dried cow
dung (Cow dung burns at 950 deg C)
The coffee grounds burn off during firing leaving sufficient cavities for
water flow-through and enough clay to filter out bacteria.
94.5-99.6% ecoli are removed with clay-coffee filter, but it doesn¹t filter
out viruses.
Charcoal is also an effective water filter for drinking water and charcoal
is relatively easy to make with stick wood and woody weeds.
On 2/12/07 5:59 AM, "cuauhtemoc landeros" <descendingeagle at hotmail.com>
wrote:
>
> I am a new Permaculturist and am looking for some guidance in the way of
> books, links, experience or knowledge of water purification techniques. I
> would like to make a model/plan for implementation in needing areas were clean
> water access in scarce to none.
> Any links are good links
> Thanks Cuauhtemoc
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