How are harmful elements like Iron, Arsenic, and Fluoride removed from drinking water?
Common methods of treating drinking water to remove/reduce the TDS and other harmful ions like Iron, Arsenic and Fluoride are Membrane separation Oxidation-flocculation-filtration Use absorbents such as activated alumina, activated carbon, chemical resins, etc. Any of the above techniques are used either exclusively or in combination, depending on the proposed usage and the size of [...] Read more
Why should a common person bother to understand groundwater?
We all are groundwater users. Farmers use it for irrigation, industries for production and a vast majority of the population use it for drinking and domestic purposes. Although a renewable resource, Groundwater is limited in its occurrence in time and space. The mindless pursuit for extracting more and more groundwater by all the users has [...] Read more