Tests also showed that water purified by the ceramic filter conformed with the Philippine National Standard for drinking water, she added. “In a nation with severe water pollution problems, these affected families may be able to get their potable drinking water if their houses are outfitted with ceramic water filters,” it said. The ceramic water filter project was headed by Blessie Basilia, chief of the ITDI-Materials Science Division. “This was also partly inspired by Yolanda because clean water sources became a problem in most parts of Eastern Visayas. If households with poor water sources will be equipped with this filtering device, the country’s accessibility rate to potable water would rise from 82.9 percent in 2007 to 86.6 percent this year, according to DOST.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer August 07, 2016 17:26 UTC