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Rainwater treatment for household use.
Pumping water from a well or borehole, for example, or harvesting rainwater, offers increasingly valuable freedom for watering the garden or washing the car, or on a larger scale, for agricultural irrigation and livestock farming. But water for household use must be filtered , and even softened to protect pipework, while water intended for consumption must be treated with a water purifier to make it safe to drink. Raw water indeed contains contaminants of varying size: dust and sediment, chemical pollutants (hydrocarbons, agricultural or industrial residues), and living organisms (bacteria, viruses).
The different stages of water treatment.
Water treatment for household use, or even making water safe to drink, requires several steps:
A chemical analysis of the water carried out by a laboratory. Your local authority or health department can advise you on the procedure. The results will guide you in choosing the right water treatment equipment.
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Cloudy water: Reducing water turbidity with a household filter.
- Water disinfection: Sterilizing water with a UV sterilizer. This safe and fast water purification method eliminates over 90% of the pathogenic bacteria present in water.
- Hard water: Removing limescale with a water softener, to prevent scale build-up in pipework and improve the taste of drinking water.
- Water potability: Making water safe to drink with a reverse osmosis system. Activated carbon, at the heart of this device, is a highly effective natural water purifier.
