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Drinking Water
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This book teaches how to procure safe drinking water. Topics covered are rainwater harvesting, desalination, groundwater use and water disinfection. This is useful for regions where safe drinking water is difficult to come by, for disaster relief or for water conservancy. The purpose of this book is to reduce misfortunes associated with water problems throughout the world: including reduction of disease spread from unsanitary water, personal dehydration, and water shortage problems.
Contents
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Rain barrel: DIY
Drinking water/Distillation
Seawater desalination
Image:25%.svg Atmosphere water collection
Image:25%.svg Ice
Image:25%.svg Well
Image:25%.svg Filtration
Image:25%.svg Displacement: hand water pump, bailer water bucket, electric pump
Disinfection
Solar water disinfection
Water: stress, crisis, security, scarcity
Africa
Image:25%.svg Americas
Australia
Image:25%.svg Eurasia
Image:25%.svg Remote regions
Only pages that are largely incomplete are marked. Pages that are 75% percent or more complete are not marked.
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