ENGINEERING INNOVATIONS IN WATER PURIFICATION SYSTEMS FOR SAFE DRINKING WATER IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Abstract

Most of the under-developed countries face a monumental problem of access to safe drinking water as a result of poor infrastructure, inaccessibility of finances and environmental demands. The paper will also cover the future of the engineering studies in the water purifying systems to address these challenges with economical, efficient, and sustainable systems. The findings have shown that superior filter material, membrane-based purification systems and hybrid systems of treating water significantly enhance the quality of the water as they have been shown to effectively eliminate such impurities like biological, chemical and physical impurities. The performance tests had proved that the system was very efficient in cleaning and used less energy and was easily accommodated in an off-grid and decentralized system. The prospects of solar powered and gravity driven were especially good in minimizing the cost of operation, and keeping water in short supply never existed in the remote regions. The socio-economic assessments demonstrated the effectiveness of community-based deployment methods to increase the system acceptance, service, and sustainability. In general, the article shows that the discrepancy between the technological ability and the actual possibility of what can be done in the real world can be closed by the new engineering methods that will be able to provide the scaling solution to the issue of the water shortage and contamination. These results show that it is valuable to combine engineering, policy, and community-based solution in order to provide safe drinking water to everyone and promote the goals of enhancing the population health and sustainable development.