Chitosan Coagulation Pretreatment to Enhance Ceramic Water Filtration for Household Water Treatment.

ABSTRACT: Viruses are major contributors to the annual 1.3 million deaths associated with the global burden of diarrheal disease morbidity and mortality. While household-level water treatment technologies reduce diarrheal illness, the majority of filtration technologies are ineffective in removing viruses due to their small size relative to filter pore size. In order to meet the WHO health-based tolerable risk target of 10^-6 Disability Adjusted Life Years per person per year, a drinking water filter must achieve a 5 Log₁₀ virus reduction. Ceramic pot water filters manufactured in developing countries typically achieve less than 1 Log₁₀ virus reductions. In order to overcome the shortfall in virus removal efficiency in household water treatment filtration, we (1) eval

SUBMITTER: Coleman CK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8472054 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature