Med over 15 års erfaring innen hagevanning og irrigasjonssystemer har han testet og vurdert utstyr for både private hager og grønnsaksbed.
Rainwater treatment for household use.
Pumping water from a well or borehole, for example, or harvesting rainwater, offers an increasingly valuable degree of freedom for watering the garden or washing the car, or on a larger scale, for agricultural irrigation and livestock farming. But water used around the home must be filtered , or even softened to protect pipework, and water intended for consumption must be treated with a water purifier to make it safe to drink. Raw water indeed contains contamination of varying size: dust and sediment, chemical contaminants (hydrocarbons, agricultural or industrial residues), and living organisms (bacteria, viruses).
The different stages of water treatment.
Water treatment for household use, or even making water drinkable, requires several steps:
A chemical analysis of the water by a laboratory. Your local authority or health department will tell you how to proceed. The results will guide you in choosing your water treatment equipment.
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Cloudy water: Reducing water turbidity with a household filter.
- Water disinfection: Sterilising the water with a UV steriliser. This clean and fast water purification method eliminates over 90% of the pathogenic bacteria present in the water.
- Hard water: Removing limescale with a water softener, to prevent scale build-up in pipework and improve the taste of drinking water.
- Water potability: Making water drinkable with a reverse osmosis system. Activated carbon, at the heart of this device, is a natural and remarkably effective water purifier.
