Drinking water

This book teaches how to procure safe drinking water. Topics covered are rainwater harvesting, desalination, groundwater use and water disinfection. This is useful for regions where safe drinking water is difficult to come by, for disaster relief or for water conservancy. The purpose of this book is to reduce misfortunes associated with water problems throughout the world: including reduction of disease spread from unsanitary water, personal dehydration, and water shortage problems.

• Rain barrel: DIY
• Atmosphere water collection
• Ice
• Displacement: hand water pump, bailer water bucket, electric pump
• Purification
  • Disinfection
    • Solar disinfection
  • Distillation: Solar still
  • Filtration
• Water: stress, crisis, security, scarcity