TREATMENT OF POTABLE WATER SAMPLES USING ECOFRIENDLY PHYLLANTHUS EMBLICA – A SOLUTION FOR WATER POLLUTIONTHAMARAI SELVI C., RAVICHANDRAN S., BOSELIN PRABHU S.R., PRASHANTH G.K., KRISHNAIAH G.M. AND SATHYANANDA H.M.Abstract The problems of water pollution in the rich and the poor nations are different in various aspects. In this paper, the potable water samples were collected in and around typical distillery industry from Puliyamarathadi, Sangaramoorthy Patti, Muthalakam Patti, Varatharajan Puram, Kullapuram, Cement Road, Villapuram, Pottal Patti, Karisal Kulam, and Palrangapuram in Madurai district. The present study is mainly aimed to remove the TDS, water hardness and chloride from potable water using natural coagulants. The main objective of this research work is to collect and analyze the physico-chemical characteristics of the potable water samples, to assess the microbial population present in the samples, to remove the impurities from contaminated water samples using natural coagulants such as Strychnos potatorum L seeds and Phyllanthus emblica wood, to find the phytocompounds present in the coagulants using GC-MS technique, to assess the antimicrobial activity of natural coagulants, and to identify the coagulant protein present in the plant material. |