MTGZone
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months ago

Researchers identify previously unknown compound in drinking water

phys.org

external-link
message-square
24
fedilink
67
external-link

Researchers identify previously unknown compound in drinking water

phys.org

PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months ago
message-square
24
fedilink
A team of researchers from the United States and Switzerland has reported the discovery of a previously unknown compound in chloraminated drinking water. Inorganic chloramines are commonly used to disinfect drinking water to safeguard public health from diseases like cholera and typhoid fever. It's estimated that more than 113 million people in the United States alone drink chloraminated water.
  • solrize@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    7 months ago

    Might help to filter out the chemicals before drinking.

    • BreadOven@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      15
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      7 months ago

      You can’t really “filter” out these chemicals when they’re fully dissolved in the water.

      There’s always distillation, but that’s not practical at all on the scale of drinking water for cities.

      • catloaf@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        7 months ago

        Reverse osmosis is the other option, but it’s also not cost-effective at city scale.

        • BreadOven@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          7 months ago

          Ah, good point. Forgot about that one haha.

      • asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        7 months ago

        We have a home distiller and use it for all our drinking water. It’s very easy to use. Highly recommend.

        • LowtierComputer@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          7 months ago

          What brand or model?

          • asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            7 months ago

            https://www.megahomedistiller.com/collections/frontpage/products/megahome-mh943sbs-water-distiller

            Made in Taiwan, too

            • LowtierComputer@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              7 months ago

              Thank you. That’s far cheaper than I expected.

      • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        7 months ago

        You can for this. See my comment: https://ponder.cat/post/752896/1007500

        • BreadOven@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          7 months ago

          Ah, interesting. Didn’t think it would be caught by activated carbon. Good to know, thanks.

      • solrize@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        7 months ago

        I had thought activated charcoal could remove the chemicals. No I don’t mean city scale. I meant after the water comes out of the tap but before you drink it. City water has to be treated to not harbor too many germs.

        • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          7 months ago

          It does for this. See: https://ponder.cat/post/752896/1007500

    • JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      7 months ago

      Definitely filter out that H2O chemical

      • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        7 months ago

        There’s di-hydrogen monoxide in the water!

science@lemmy.world

science@lemmy.world

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !science@lemmy.world

A community to post scientific articles, news, and civil discussion.

rule #1: be kind

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 858 users / day
  • 1.28K users / week
  • 4.73K users / month
  • 10.9K users / 6 months
  • 6 local subscribers
  • 19.5K subscribers
  • 2.11K Posts
  • 19.9K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • m3t00🌎@lemmy.world
  • Joleee@lemmy.world
  • laverabe@lemmy.world
  • DeadPand@midwest.social
  • laverabe@lemmy.zip
  • BE: 0.19.5
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org