Produce clean water from the dense tree

The moringa (Moringa Oleifera scientific name) is a plant commonly grown for food, herbs and biofuels. Recently, American scientists discovered that the tree is also known as this 'magic tree' can also be used to produce clean water.

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Tree beam

Removing pathogenic bacteria and debris from drinking water requires a high technology but rural areas do not always have this technology. But since the discovery of a protein in the dendritic particle can purify water, scientists began to study ways to exploit its use.

Accordingly, they added an extract of the moringa beam containing positively charged Moringa protein (with the characteristic of sediment binding in water and killing bacteria) into negative charged sand before using it to filter water. As a result, a mixture called 'f-sand' can remove E.coli bacteria and sediment in water samples. This result promises to bring cheap and sustainable drinking water purification measures to developing countries, where about 1 billion people do not have access to clean water.