Natural Water Filter

Problem

I wanted to see if I could make a natural water filter out of natural materials like sand, gravel, activated charcoal, etcetera. I am doing how to make a natural water filter is because I love the wild and the outdoors. What persuaded me to do this was survival shows. I love to watch them. I think water is very important because your body needs it. You can’t drink all water though. Sometimes water is not clean so you have to filter it and make it clean. You can doing this by using natural materials.

Hypothesis

My hypothesis is that my information will be accurate and my water filter will be a success. For my water filter to be a success I will need to have water the with 7pH. I think this because my filter looks like other good ones that worked successfully.

Procedure

1. Start by getting my bottle of water

2. Carefully put all the materials in for the filter to work

3. Get dirt from outside then strain it out to have just dirt no rocks.

4. Then test the pH of the dirty water

5. Put it through the filter and see your water pH

6. Test your water to see how clean it is.

7. Compare you filtered water to your dirty water and find your average.

8. Repeat 4-8 times

Conclusion

My hypothesis was correct. My hypothesis stated that all of my tests would be accurate and my filter would be a success. I got pH’s close to 7 like 6 and 6.5 and I used the littlest material as possible. The ways I could have improved this is getting a bigger bottle and adding more materials. In conclusion my filter worked very well and I enjoyed making it.

Natural Water Filter

I am making a natural water filter and recording data to see how efficient my water filter is. My hypothesis was that overall the water will be clean and will be close to drinkable. I am doing how to make a natural water filter is because I love the wild and the outdoors. What persuaded me to do this was survival shows. I love to watch them. I think water is very important because your body needs it. You can’t drink all water though. Sometimes water is not clean so you have to filter it and make it clean. You can do this by using natural materials.

I cut a hole in a 1 liter Sprite bottle. The bottle was used to put all of my materials in. To filter my water I had to first make it dirty. So I mixed some dirt and water together. The dirty water was 12.2 pH. Once that was done I simply put the water through the filter. The water went down each layer of material and ended up in a little cup. Once all of the water was fully through and into the cup it was tested with test strips. The strips measured the pH of the water. My results were good but sometimes a little dirt would get into it. To measure the dirty water I used the test strips. To solve this problem I simply added a little more material and made the water a little less dirtier.

I have collected a lot of data and overall it was very efficient and accurate. My results went up and down. Most of the time it was very accurate. Sometimes the water was acidic which is not good to drink. None of my results were over 7 pH. My results ranged at 5.5-7 pH. How you test water is if it is under 7 pH it is acidic and if it is over 7 pH or it is base. 7 is neutral. If the water is base it means there are more negative ions. Overall I think my tests were very good.

In conclusions my data was very accurate and it was recorded a numerous amount of times. I have learned that it is not easy to make things out of natural materials. I have also learned that living in the outdoors could be very hard. My hypothesis was correct because I predicted that my data would be efficient and it was. One thing I could have improved with this experiment is to use different materials. For example using more cotton balls could have caught the dirt better. Another thing I could have done to improve this experiment is to use different liquids. Overall I really liked the experiment and enjoyed doing it.

Data

Picture

https://youtu.be/gGf8cvYepAQ