Nutritional Supplement Enriched Water Purifier

The project is a dual concept of providing nutritional supplement and purifying water using indigenous biodegradable polymers, ispaghula husk and sodium alginate. The team has already established the water purification efficiency of the indigenous biodegradable polymer granules using facile and cost effective technique. The developed granules (1 g/ L) were found to successfully remove 99% of gram positive and gram negative microbes from 1000000 CFU/ mL and 99% azodyes (0.2 g/ L). Considering these observations, the team intends to explore these granules in combination with water soluble nutrients to generate clean water fortified with nutrients such as folic acid and ascorbic acid, essential for children.