Project-Based Learning: Water Purification

From the U.S. government website Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

"Since 2010, water utilities' testing has found pollutants in Americans' tap water, according to an EWG drinking water quality analysis of 30 million state water records." Contains searchable database by zip code.

From instructables.com. Filters out particles but does NOT filter out bacteria. You would still need to boil the filtered water.

From the Washington State Department of Health.

From the U.S. government Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

From Instructables.com.

"SODIS (short for Solar Water Disinfection) started as an initiative of Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Sciences and Technology."

"Solar disinfection (SODIS) was developed in the 1980s to inexpensively disinfect water". From the U.S. government Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

From OutdoorLife.com

From the U.S. government Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Also includes links to some images and videos.

From the World Health Organization of the United Nations.