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Recipe For Safer Drinking Water? Add Sun, Salt And Lime<\/a><\/p>\n

“So basically you add dirt and salt, to make the water cleaner?” I asked him.<\/p>\n

“Right,” said Pierce laughing, “It’s not exactly intuitive.”<\/p>\n

Perhaps not so intuitive to the average person, but it’s a process that may be more familiar to makers of wine, where bentonite is commonly used to clarify wine of impurities.
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\nSchwab and medical student Alexander Harding discovered that adding a half a Persian lime to a two-liter bottle of water reduced the disinfection time in the sun from six hours to a half an hour. That’s just about the same amount of time it takes to boil water, and much more energy efficient.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recipe For Safer Drinking Water? Add Sun, Salt And Lime “So basically you add dirt and salt, to make the water cleaner?” I asked him. “Right,” said Pierce laughing, “It’s not exactly intuitive.” Perhaps not so intuitive to the average … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-other-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}