Antibiotics have revolutionised medicine in the last century and enabled the prevention of
bacterial infections that were previously deemed untreatable. However, in parallel, bacteria …

Approximately 600 million people, the bulk of them in developing countries, still lack access
to safe drinking water. A short-term solution for the provision of safe drinking water at …

The centralized Rio Seco Industrial Park (RSIP) tannery collective in the Southern Peruvian
city of Arequipa releases untreated tannery wastewater into a proximal creek that is a …

The use of porous ceramic pot filters for wastewater treatment is considered a cost-effective
technology however presence of appropriate pore size to trap pollutants and …

Sand filtration is widely used in drinking water treatment processes, yet the hydraulic
fundamentals at particle-scale are not well defined, especially the fluid velocity profile near …

Abstract Point-of-use (POU) water filters nowadays are widely used worldwide to get highly
purified potable water. In this study, people opinions about household water filters were …

Contamination with pathogens degrades water quality and is a major cause of many
waterborne diseases. The aim of this research is to reduce the global disease burden by …

Halving the proportion of the people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and
basic sanitation is among the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Lack of access to safe …

Overcoming the scarcity of safe and sustainable drinking water, particularly in low-income
countries, is one of the key challenges of the 21st century. In these countries, the cost of …

Due to the high demand for water filtration technology in developing countries, various
materials have been used for water filter fabrication. However, silica derived from rice husk …