Compilation of experiences against the water purification through the use of filters

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Juan David Córdoba Parada
Rocío Acosta Alarcón
Juan Fernando Pacheco
Catalina Ramírez

Abstract

This article exposes a bibliographic review of cases of study that evidence the importance of the implementation of filters as an alternative for the purification of the water. Five cases applied in Colombia are presented where water purification filters were used —sand filters, clay, ceramic candles and ultrafiltration, among others— in vulnerable communities and two international cases that emphasize the importance of the filters inside the rural communities, where the access to drinkable water can be null sometimes —the used filters were made of sand and ceramic with colloidal silver—. It was evidenced that the use of filters to purify water in the vulnerable communities has a good acceptance and replication given that the access to drinkable water, in these cases, is limited or null. 

Author Biographies

Juan David Córdoba Parada, Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios

Estudiante de ingeniería en Agroecología, integrante de Ingenieros sin Fronteras Colombia — isf-col —.

Rocío Acosta Alarcón, Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios

Ingeniera en Agroecología, máster en Ingeniería Ambiental, grupo de investigación Desarrollo Regional.

Juan Fernando Pacheco, Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios

Ingeniero Industrial, gerente Parque Científico de Innovación Social, grupo de investigación Desarrollo Regional.

Catalina Ramírez, Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios

Ingeniera Industrial, docente de la Universidad de los Andes e integrante de Ingenieros sin Fronteras Colombia.