Methods of Physical Water Treatment


by Mandy Fain - Date: 2007-02-14 - Word Count: 463 Share This!

Physical methods of water treatment can be whole house or personalized. The whole house physical water treatment includes the use of a water softener, a uv light, a boiling system, a filtration system and more.

Personal physical water treatment
Water filters and purifiers are methods of physical water treatment useful in the personal situation. These physical methods of treating the water easily purify the water by removing granules and grains in the water with the use of filters inside jugs or containers. The container is usually plastic, or it could be glass, and inside will be a filter the water travels through before going into your glass.

The filter could be fibrous or it could be charcoal and cotton mixtures. Each filter is used for a set time, usually a month, two months or sometimes longer, and then you must replace the filter for continued purified water and soft water taste. Anyone can use this physical water treatment method, in any situation because you put the water into the small container before using it in your home for drinking or cooking. The described personal forms of physical water treatment are useful as gifts for others.

Bag and cartridge filter systems
Bag and cartridge filters are available for water that is held in a holding tank and then dispersed through the home. This system is a physical water treatment system used after collecting rain water, in the desert from well waters, and in rural areas, where the well water is hard and full of minerals and tiny rocks. The bags and cartridges are just as described, filters that filter everything out of the water you don't want, and a bag, that is going to collect and allow the water to flow through without allowing small particles through. These forms of physical water treatment can service an entire house or a housing unit where more than one family may live.

Many types of physical water treatment exist to serve various purposes. A water softener cleans the minerals from the water using salt. If you have hard water, you may have too much iron, and another type of physical water treatment system is available for that need. Sediment is small rock, dirt in the water. Nitrate or Tannin is additional elements found in water that can be removed using specialized physical water treatment systems, similar to that of a water softener.

If you are not sure why your water smells, why it is staining your clothes or why your water pressure seems to be so low, you may want to have your water tested. After having your water tested, (which you can do yourself with a test kit) you will be able to determine what type of physical water treatment system you need for the best possible water in your home.


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