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We are going to put a coffee filter at the beginning of the filter on our water bottle. Then we're going to then put sand and charcoal. At the end we're gonna put cotton and another filter and a cup to get the filtered water. This is supposed to help clean the water

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A water tower uses gravity in order to get the water to our houses. They raise it up high at the top of the water tower, and then they let it drop so that it goes to your water system.

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You can boil your water, or you can use a solar still to help further filter it. You can get a bowl and put a cup in the middle, then you can put wrap around the top and let it sit out in the sun and let the water evaporate. The evaporated water that is on the cyran wrap You can also use a bottle of water with layers of different purifying rocks to filter water.

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Get your materials. cut the edge of a water bottle with a knife. punch a hole in the cap. grab a coffee filter, and make it tight around the cap so that it filter the water too.

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Water is essential to life. This technique is very useful when you are hunting to survive. People can live up to a week without food, but only two to three days without water. Clean water can be hard to find if you get stranded in the wild...

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This is a complex Water System in Chicago.

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How do you slake the thirst of 5.5 million Chicagoans spread throughout the country's third largest city and 118 surrounding suburbs? You treat one billion gallons of water a day at the world's largest water treatment plant.

Opened in 1968, the James W. Jardine Water Purification Plant provides virtually all of Chicago's potable water, though the smaller South Water Purification Plant also helps provide for the south end of the city. The process begins 2.5 miles off shore at massive in-flow points called cribs. Each crib pulls water from 20 feet below the surface down a 168-foot vertical shaft to tubes cut from the bedrock which flow back to the shore. Once it reaches the plant, fish and other large debris are filtered out using a rotating screen and the water is pumped 25 feet up to begin the gravity-powered treatment process.

The water is first chemically treated with chlorine to kill microbes and activated carbon to remove objectionable tastes and odors, then fluoride is added for healthier teeth, and finally aluminum sulfate about an hour into the process to increase the stickiness of microscopic solids which then adhere to each other, creating floc. Large paddles-floculators-assist with the mixing of alum and water. One of the very last chemicals added, polyphosphate, is used to coat the inside of Chicago's pipes, preventing the lead in old plumbing from leaching into the water supply. The water is then pumped into settling tanks where the floc sinks to the bottom. This sedimentation phase eliminates roughly 90 percent of the particulate matter from the water.

The water is then filtered in one of 96 swimming pool-sized tanks filled with a layer of coarse gravel under an upper layer of fine sand-together these layers effectively filter much of the remaining floc and debris from the water. The entire process from crib to filtration takes eight hours. From here, the water is pumped through 4,000 miles of pipe for consumption by the Chicago area's 5.5 million residents.
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How Chicago Purifies One Million Gallons of Water Every Minute

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How do you slake the thirst of 5.5 million Chicagoans spread throughout the country's third largest city and 118 surrounding suburbs? You treat one billion gallons of water a day at the world's largest water treatment plant. Opened in 1968, the James W.