Methods for Disinfecting Drinking Water
make sure you use water that is properly disinfected. This type of water is safe for drinking, cooking and cleaning your clothes and dishes.
1. Boiling Method
First of all, if you don't have bottled water to drink, you can boil any type of water you have access to. Boiling for a few minutes is enough to kill different types of pathogens, viruses, protozoa and bacteria, according to the reports released by WHO.
At times, water is cloudy. To get it cleaned, all you need to do is pour the water into another container through a filter or coffee filter or water towel.
Keep boiling the water for a couple of minutes for proper disinfection. At a high altitude, say, 1000 meters, you may need to wait a few more minutes.
After boiling the water, you should take it off the heat and wait for a few minutes to let it cool down. Make sure the container is covered.
2. The Bleach Approach
If the water tastes flat or odd, you can add a small amount of salt into a litter of water. Alternatively, you can pour the water to another container and then to the first container and then repeat the process several times to fix the odor.
For the bleach method, you need to use chlorine bleach for proper and safe disinfection. Typically, the active ingredients of this bleach have 6% of sodium hypochlorite. It's not a good idea to go for color safe or scented bleach as they have additional cleaners.
Look for a clean dropper and use it to drop a few drops of bleach in the water. For a gallon of water, you can drop just 6 drops of bleach, which will be more than enough. However, the amount can be increased if the water is still quite cloudy or stinky.
Finally, you should stir the container and keep it covered for half an hour. If the water emits a little bit of chlorine odor, you can repeat the process and let the container sit for another 15 minutes.
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