date-created: '2010-09-21'
date-updated: '2026-05-28'
manifest-author:
    name: Appropedia
    email: admin@appropedia.org
title: 'Decreasing turbidity to optimize solar water disinfection'
description: 'This project will focus on methods to decrease turbidity in source water prior to treatment by solar water disinfection (SODIS). It is based on preliminary experiments performed for the design of a low-cost filter unit for pre-SODIS treatment. This new study explores the use of a natural agent to facilitate coagulation-flocculation and settling of particles. Solar water disinfection (SODIS) has proven to be effective at reducing diarrheal incidence in epidemiological intervention studies. However, the SODIS method is limited to waters of low turbidity (<30 NTU).'
project-link: 'https://www.appropedia.org/Decreasing_turbidity_to_optimize_solar_water_disinfection'
contact:
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        platform: Appropedia
version: 75
made: false
image: 'https://www.appropedia.org/w/images/thumb/4/40/Sodis.jpg/1280px-Sodis.jpg'
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    title: S
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license:
    documentation: C
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    contact: 'https://www.appropedia.org/'
documentation-home: 'https://www.appropedia.org/Decreasing_turbidity_to_optimize_solar_water_disinfection'
documentation-language: e