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siddiqua
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Filtered Water Anyone ?
July 28, 2009 - 02:00 AM
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Everyone has heard about the town in Oz that created history by banning all bottled water.
Why don't people in countries where tap water isn't clean enough to drink directly just install water filters in their homes ?
Its done almost everywhere India (there are exceptions though) where the water supply isn't safe enough to drink.
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Raisa Bhuiyan
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Re: Filtered Water Anyone ?
July 28, 2009 - 10:32 AM
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Hey there,
Though that practice might be popular in India, I think the cost of having a water filter installed for most people around the world outweighs the definite benefits of having a water filter at all.
Think about it, with all the various environmentally friendly products that exist today, you're led to ponder why not everyone has taken advantage of them.
I think the problem boils down to the cost of the environmentally-friendly products, and the choice of the general public to prefer environmentally destrcutive utilities in favour of cheaper prices.
Thats just my opinion.
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Re: Filtered Water Anyone ?
July 29, 2009 - 01:20 AM
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You are right in a way. Installing a filter is costly. Where I live, no one consumes bottled water in their homes. Only rarely when they travel and there is no access to water to drink do people buy bottled water. But also, not many people install a water filter because as you rightly pointed out, because of the costs involved. Even filters that are relatively simple and cheap are unaffordable. What I've seen though is people collecting and storing water directly from the water supply pipe. They consider it as water fit for drinking. When there is water supply every three or four days from the lake here, people store water by collecting it when it is gushing forth from the supply. While around my neighbourhood I haven't really come across any cases of anyone falling ill due to consumption of such water, I still felt that it was important for people to have a water filter if they don't even boil water to drink.
I agree though, situations everywhere are different and idfferent soultions are needed.
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Filtered Water?
July 29, 2009 - 01:49 PM
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In India, most people go for boiling the water and then filter it using multiple layers of simple cotton cloth (washable). The first process kills the microbes and the second removes the dirt. No surprise, why most Indians are healthy, most of the time.
An ordinary candle filter costs around Rs1000-1500/- i.e, around US$20-30. Costly for most of the people living on the intermittent municipal supply in most cities & towns of India,as they earn around Rs.100/- (US$2) per day or less. What to say of their affording to buy higher versions of filters of Eureka Forbes & aqua guard?
Recently, in a locality of Hyderabad, some people lost their loved ones for drinking contaminated municipal water (with gutter water). In this case, even, if they had used water filters, survival could have been difficult.
So, for the supply of safe drinking water, Government has to educate people on good sanitary habits, provide water filters to BPL people free of cost, arrange for good drainage facilities and separate & safe drinking water supply lines. For this the Government would be required to spend around Rs.5000/- per BPL family and the total cost would come around Rs.5000 Crores. Does the Government lack funds or Competent persons to carry out the work or the will?
This post was edited on: 2009-07-30 at 01:48 PM by: siddiq92
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Re: Filtered Water Anyone ?
July 31, 2009 - 02:08 PM
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Here in Jordan almost everyone drinks filtered bottled water, why? simple because the water is clean enough to only clean stuff, it's not like Jordan have the best filtering system in the whole world, and attaching filtering systems is way too expensive and may not filter the water good enough to drink it, so you have a good idea as in the concept of the idea, but the world doesn't really accept it as a good one.
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