Bacteria Removed From Water With Simple Pine Tree Filter Say MIT Researchers

[Serpo]

Effective point-of-use devices for providing safe drinking water are urgently needed to reduce the global burden of waterborne disease. Here we show that plant xylem from the sapwood of coniferous trees – a readily available, inexpensive, biodegradable, and disposable mate rial – can remove bacteria from water by simple pressure-driven filtration. Approximately 3 cm3 of sapwood can filter water at the rate of several liters per day, sufficient to meet the clean drinking water needs of one person. The results demonstrate the potential of plant xylem to address the need for pathogen-free drinking water in developing countries and resource-limited settings.

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[Ponce]

Thanks Serpo, I read this yesterday and already made one.......at first it tasted kind of yuky but the more that you use it the better it tasted......if I get sick later on it would then mean that it did not work :(

V

[Serpo]

so explain what you did