Activated carbon from waste tires as an adsorbent for treating heavy metals in drinking water of Mahal a local community in Nagpur

Water constitutes an essential constituent for life on earth. It is the sole distinguishing factor why life exists on our planet as compared to other planets, the exoteric importance of water is not only in its quantity but even in its quality. The quality of water is of great importance not just to existence of life but also as it plays a key role to a lot of biological phenomena’s in the body. When water is below the standard prescribed by the WHO the water becomes inimical to the health of the persons who take it. This is particularly the case in most local communities where the water sources are either contaminated or contain heavy metals which constitute great health problems either in the short term or long term to such persons. Heavy metals have been historically found to be in large quantities in water samples taken from local communities, this is answerably so due to the lack of precipitating processes towards the purification of water used in these communities. The well and stream happens to be the major source of drinking water in these communities, considering the lack of availability of technologies for purification of drinking water in these community, this paper proposes using activated charcoal as a rather better and effective method due to its high prevalence and ease of use, to help remove heavy metals in the local community of Mahal.