Journal of Humanitarian Engineering, Volume 1, Issue 1 – May 2012
Arsenic removal for ceramic water filters, 2012.
Mishant Kumar, Faculty of Engineering, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Mishant.S.Kumar@gmail.com
Arsenic in drinking water is a hazard to human health and is a known carcinogen (Mass 1992). Resource Development International – Cambodia (RDIC) has researched, developed, and manufactured simple ceramic water filtgers (CWF) which have proved to be extremely effective in removing pathogens from water. These filtershowever, do not remove arsenic from water, which exists in the source water at levels above the World Health Organisation (WHO) guideline of 10μg/L.
The aims of this literature based study were to investigate conventional and non-conventional arsenic removal processes, and to discuss the options for applying an arsenic removal technology to the CWFs produced by RDIC. It was found that conventional arsenic removal technologies are difficult to implement in the context of household water treatment in a developing country. This study suggested that non-conventional arsenic removal technologies shall be more effective and that field studies must be undertaken to verify the success of such methods.
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I never realized that arsenic was in the water. Thanks for this great blog.