Water Sanitation in the Philippines

Sanitizing our water in our country is one of our major problem where are facing right now. Not all of filipino taste a really purified water in our faucet ; due to this children may suffer from any kind of deceases that lead to death of their own. Vomiting or diarrhea, a sick stomach ,skin rashes, cancer (Some kinds of cancer, like leukemia, can happen after drinking bad water for a long period of time), Reproductive problems (Some kinds of reproductive problems, like infertility, can happen after drinking polluted water for a long period of time), developmental problems (Some kinds of learning disabilities can happen after drinking dirty water for a long period of time). these are the main decease can affect our body if were drinking a unsanitized water. Image result for dirty water

Here are the causes why Philippines can’t afford sanitated water, first we lack in technology , innovation is out of the game, because we’re not entertaining our own filipino inventors in our country so thus we cannot afford a Water Treatment Plant that will sanitate our fresh water around the whole Philippines. And our economy is not that great to have million of dollars to build a Plant or Dam in a rural places that don’t have fresh water. The government will not take actions for this because of the tax or GDP of a certain area are low.

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Now I have some tips to have your very own homemade mini sanitation plant in your home. The methods used include physical processes such as filtration, sedimentation, and distillation; biological processes such as slow sand filters or biologically active carbon; chemical processes such as flocculation and chlorination and the use of electromagnetic radiation such as ultraviolet light. Purifying water may reduce the concentration of particulate matter including suspended particles, parasites, bacteria, algae, viruses, fungi, as well as reducing the concentration of a range of dissolved and particulate matter.

Materials to be used
Cotton wool, Sand , Charcoal (preferably powdered, or buy charcoal pieces and grind them up) , Gravel, Plastic glasses, An empty water bottle with the bottom cut off, A support system for the water bottle, e.g. a plank of wood with a hole, Dirty water (water with instant coffee, flour and charcoal pieces added)An empty container for used materials and dirty water, and Stopwatches.

1. The person should set up their filtration system, placing the empty water bottle upside-down into the support system. We used a plank of wood between benches or tables.

2. For each filtration system, give the person the four materials (cotton wool, sand, ground charcoal and gravel) in separate glasses along with a glass of the dirty water.

3. Let the person choose the order in which to pack layers of the materials into the water bottle. Have them note the order of the packing material and predict how effectively the filtration system will remove impurities from the water. To measure the time taken for the water to pass through the system and to predict how this affects the cleaning process.

4. When the filtration system is packed with the materials; can add the dirty water. Depending on the packing, it can take a while for the water to pass through the packing layers.

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