WATER PURIFYING AGENT AND WATER TREATMENT DEVICE USING THE SAME

PURPOSE:To obtain safe drinking water by simply removing an offesive smell such as a bleaching powder smell or a fungal smell and trihalomethane being a carcinogneic component by adding activated carbon, coral sand and ascorbic acid or a salt thereof as a water purifying agent. CONSTITUTION:A water purifying agent contains activated carbon, coral sand and ascorbic acid or a salt thereof. As activated carbon used in this water purifying agent, both of powder activated carbon and granular activated carbon may be used. Coral sand is composed of reef-forming coral or prepared by activating the reef-forming coral under heating and based on calcium carbonate but has many fine pores originating from coral being a living body. As ascorbic acid, both of L-ascorbic acid and D-ascorbic acid may be used. As a salt thereof, an alkali metal salt of sodium or potassium is pref. used. The water purifying agent may be prepared by combining and mixing activated carbon, coral sand and ascorbic acid or a salt thereof.