Materials List:
Making Dirty Water Drinkable!
https://www.teachengineering.org/makerchallenges/view/rice2-2408-drinking-water-drinkable-design-challenge
Note: Most supplies are available online or in a local hardware store.
- Materials to build the water bottle:
- different types of plastic water bottles (these can be recycled items brought in from home)
- coffee filter paper
- Whatman filter paper, available online
- mesh (several different varieties; thin and heavy duty)
- hot glue guns and glue sticks
- scissors
- rubber bands
- air conditioning filter paper
- Types of water cleaning media:
- granular activated carbon, available online
- Zeolite, available online
- Equipment for water quality test:
- pH meter or pH strips, available online
- beaker
- water quality test strips
- dirty water (either from a local water source or handmade)
- distilled water