Footnote:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-197) and index
Authors: Chittaranjan Ray, Ph.D., P.E. (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Water Resources Research Center and Environmental Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, HI); Ravi Jain, Ph.D., P.E. (School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA)
Description:
"Safe drinking water can quickly become a scarce resource in the aftermath of a natural disaster. Low Cost Emergency Water Purification Technologies provides tips and techniques for supplying potable drinking water at low cost in the most dire of circumstances. Succinct and readable, this manual describes the pros and cons of various short-term and long-term water treatment technologies. These technologies include: reverse osmosis-based filtration, solar pasteurization systems, solar distillation systems, sand filtration, pressurized filtration systems, and natural filtration."--