How to Purify Water With Fruit Peels
17th December 2013
If, of course, that’s what you want to do.
In rural areas, germs aren’t the only danger to drinking water; pollutants and pesticides can get into supplies too. But soak small segments of peel in a rubbing alcohol solution, dry them out, and put them in dirty groundwater for a couple of hours and they adsorb heavy metal ions, dyes, pesticides, and nanoparticles like gold and silver. Remove the peels and the water is ready to drink. While it doesn’t rid the H2O of pathogens, it provides cleaner water using biowaste already on hand.
December 18th, 2013 at 10:21
Are you really having a problem with nanoparticles of silver and gold?
December 19th, 2013 at 04:58
Not that I know of, but why take a chance? That’s all I’m sayin’.