How to purify water at home

High-quality drinking water is a guarantee of human health. In addition, the taste of the cooked dishes will depend on the water. Everyone knows that tap water, which is supplied to apartments and houses, has dubious qualities and purity and can harm the body. For its purification, various devices are used. But what if there is no filter in the house? Alternatively, you can use simple methods of purifying water at home.

There are many ways to get purified water at home without special equipment. Each of them has both advantages and disadvantages.

Freeze water

It is advisable to take a deep tank. Water is poured into it, but not to the brim, but with a margin of 1 cm, no less. This cookware is carefully placed in the freezer. It is necessary to ensure that half the water in the vessel is frozen. How long it takes will depend on several factors, including the volume of the vessel, the temperature set in the freezer compartment.

As soon as half of all our liquid freezes, you need to carefully break through the crust of ice with a sharp knife and drain the water that did not have time to freeze. It is she who is the most harmful; impurities remain in her. The remaining ice is a clean, healthy liquid that can be safely consumed or used in the kitchen for cooking.

Frozen water is endowed with a number of therapeutic properties. Namely:

• positively affects the normalization of metabolic processes in the human body;
• Helps operational recovery after illness;
• promotes rapid adaptation of the body in unexpected conditions;
• improves muscle tissue;
• endowed with anti-allergenic qualities.

It is recommended that people who have passed the freezing procedure drink water to people who know firsthand about such ailments as bronchial asthma, stomatitis, and various types of dermatitis.

This method of filtering water is far from perfect, because to determine how well the water has cleared, you have to "by eye". Nevertheless, the liquid obtained is cleaner and much more useful than the one that is supplied to us from the tap.

Boiling

Boiling is a way to get clean water, which is used by almost everyone. High temperatures affect water - it is sterilized, cleaned of microorganisms. The desired result can be achieved only after 15 minutes of boiling, and it is not necessary to cover the container with a lid, since harmful compounds "exit" with steam.

However, this method has significant drawbacks.

Firstly, boiled water in the common people has earned the name "dead", and this is no coincidence. Along with harmful impurities, useful components also evaporate, therefore, we are not talking about any positive effects.

Not only do chlorine compounds linger in such water, they become a carcinogen - chloroform, which is dangerous for humans because of the ability to provoke oncological pathologies.

Parts of the salts linger on the walls of the container in which the liquid was boiled. The result is soft water, which can “boast” the content of salts, nitrates and heavy metals is much higher than in tap water flowing from the tap.

Despite this, for most residents of our country, boiling is a method used quite often due to its simplicity and affordability. In this case, the resulting boiled liquid should be tried to neutralize.

Make it easy. 5 liters of boiled water are poured into the dishes, ascorbic acid (0.5 grams), purchased in advance at the pharmacy, should be added there. The composition is mixed until the acid is completely dissolved and left for an hour to settle.

Upholding

Defending is an easy way that many people use. The result is a better quality fluid.

The water recruited from the tap is left for 8 hours. During this period, volatile impurities, including chlorine, evaporate. It is advisable to mix the contents of the container from time to time, this will speed up the evaporation process.

But it is impossible to get rid of salts of heavy metals, they remain in the liquid, however, they settle to the very bottom. After this, pour 2/3 of the contents of the dishes with settled water. This should be done carefully, making sure that the liquid does not shake and that the sediment does not mix with the already cleaned layer.

Salt for water purification

Not everyone knows, but well-known table salt can also act as a kind of home-made “filter”.

2 liters of liquid from the tap fills the vessel. It also contains 1 full tablespoon of salt, which should dissolve well. After 15-25 minutes, the water will already be cleaned of harmful microorganisms and salts of heavy metals.

Activated Carbon Purification

Activated carbon is actively used as a cleaning component. By the way, most cleaning devices use this substance. Activated carbon copes with the neutralization of unpleasant odors. In addition, he, like a sponge, is able to absorb harmful elements from a liquid.

To achieve the expected result, tablets of this product are wrapped in a piece of gauze and placed in a container filled with liquid. For 1 liter of water, 1 tablet is used. After 8 hours, the water will become significantly cleaner and can be safely used.

Silver cleansing

Silver is an excellent cleanser. Using this element, it is possible to neutralize not only chemicals, but also get rid of many harmful elements.

In the evening, a silver coin or spoon is lowered into a dish filled with liquid. In the morning, after 12 hours, the purified water is ready for use.

Water purification by folk methods

In addition to the widely known household methods described above, many popular methods.

1. Bunches of mountain ash can help solve the problem. Berries are lowered into a vessel with water and left for 2-3 hours. The obtained purified liquid is no worse than the one obtained by using activated carbon or silver.
2. Willow bark, onion peel, juniper twigs, bird cherry leaves will also perfectly cope with this task. However, filtering with such components will take longer - 12 hours.
3. For clarification, you can use iodine or vinegar. For 1 liter of water, you need to take 3 drops of 5% iodine or 1 teaspoon of vinegar. These components are added to water for 2-6 hours. However, you need to know that chlorine and some microorganisms do not disappear.

All of these methods can be adopted. In the absence of a high-quality filter, any of them will help to get water much cleaner than that which flows in the taps of our houses.

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