What is water purification?
Water purification is the process of removing undesirable chemicals, biological contaminants, suspended solids and gases from water. India is densely populated and with high usage of chemicals for industrial and agricultural purpose. It is inevitable that people living in India need to treat and purify the water that they consume. Drinking impure water may lead to diseases like diarrhoea, cholera, typhoid or entry of carcinogenic substances into our body.
What are the different methods of water purification?
There are many ways of purifying water and the choice of method depends on the quality of water being treated, the cost of the treatment process and the quality standard expected of the processed water.
- pH adjustment
- Coagulation and Flocculation
- Sedimentation
- Sludge storage and removal
- Floc blanket clarifiers
- Dissolved air flotation
- Filtration
- Rapid sand filters
- Slow sand filters
- Membrane filtration
- Removal of ions and other dissolved substances
- Disinfection
- Chlorine disinfection
- Chlorine dioxide disinfection
- Chloramination
- Ozone disinfection
- Ultraviolet disinfection
- Ionizing radiation
- Bromination and iodinization
- Portable water purification
- Water fluoridation
- Water conditioning
- Plumbosolvency reduction
- Radium Removal
- Fluoride removal
Do Somarka products purify water?
No. Somarka products do not purify water. They are meant to be used after water purification to convert the water to its natural coherent state. To learn more about Somarka products, please visit our products page here.