How To Get Good Quality Drinking Water?
How To Get Good Quality Drinking Water? By Chai Yong | Water is vital for human survival. It serves the following functions to the human body namely making up water lost via breathing, perspiration, digestion and urination, regulating body temperature, transporting nutrients to body cells, removing waste from the body and protecting organs, tissues and joints. We need to re-hydrate by drinking water and other beverages. The main sources of drinking water are rivers, lakes, reservoirs, ground water and the sea. The water from these sources at times could not be consumed right away. It needs to go through water treatment processes before we could consume it. The reason is that it could be contaminated with pollutants like suspended solids, algae, bacteria and viruses. Water goes through different processes like screening, rapid mixing, sedimentation, flotation, filtration, micro-screening, disinfection, de-chlorinati...