Brock+Crothers+&+Isaac+Teubel

=__FILTRATION__= The best way to filter your water would probably be the chemically or boiling the water. But these are not the easiest if you don't have chemicals or fire on you which usually many people don't. So what we will be trying to find is the best water filtration system. We will be using house hold items that a lot of people would have at home. Even though filtering the water with rock and cloth it does not get rid of all the bacteria but it does take the dirt out of the water and would still make the water cleaner than not doing anything at all. But it does make the clarity and taste of the water better.
 * BY:** Isaac Teubel and Brock Crothers
 * Procedure**: What type of filtration separates dirt or sand the best?
 * Background**:There are many ways to filter water like for example you can do it chemically, boil it, and then you can filter it.
 * Hypothesis**: If we use cloth and rock to filter the water it will be cleaner than the water that was filtered by cloth and sand.


 * Water Filtration **

- We are trying to find out which household materials, filters sand and dirt out of water the best. -To measure this we will be using three ways after we filter the water. The clarity test, the weight measurement, and the boiling test.

- Coffee filters - 2 liter (clear Bottle) - saw or any thing to cut the bottle in half - dirt ,sand - Gallon bucket - rocks - measuring cup -cotton pads - 2 water containers capable of holding 40 ounces of water Procedure: 1. Take a liter soda bottle 2. Cut the bottle a little above half 3. Next take the top half of the bottle and flip it over so the caps facing down 4. Lay down 3 cotton swabs so they cover the whole 5. Next lay a cup of rock in your bottle 6. Next put a coffee filter over that 7. Set the top half of the bottle into the second half and take off the cap 8. take your two water containers and put exactly 40 ounces in each. Put a put 4 teaspoons in each container and stir both for 30 seconds and weight it on a scale and write down that weight so you can compare it to the product and then pour it through make sure the weight of the two buckets are exactly the same. 9. Take your second liter and cut it like the first and take the bottle and put down 3 cotton pads and this time use a cup of sand in the middle then put your coffee filter on it 10. Next do steps 7 again to this bottle and use the second container of dirt water to this make sure the two dirty water cups weigh exactly the same and have the same amount of water and dirt. 11. Weight them again take the second weight and subtract the first from the second and that's how much dirt the filter took out 12. Then take a clairity test. 1 being normal tap water and 5 being the dirt water 13.Nest take the weight test and subtract the first from the second and write it down 14. Then lastly boil it until all the water is gone and weigh the dirt thats inside the cup 15. clean out the other 40 ounce container and make two more 40 ounce water container and put them through without water for your constants complete steps 8-14 but dont mix the dirt in this time because its the constants.
 * Materials **

16.Compare info and make conclusions of which filter works the best. Put all the info in a graph to make easier to compare 17.Try again to get more results Data: There was .4 ounces of dirt in the 8 ounces of dirt water. .04 ounces of dirt left from the small filter. .031 ounces left of dirt left from the big filter. Conclusion: The smaller filter worked better because of its filter and close nitted rock. Clairtity test smaller filter was a 3. Clairity test for big filter was 4. works cited [|__http://www.hometrainingtools.com/water-filtration-science-project/a/1803/__] [|__http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Water_purification__] [|__http://www.letstalkscience.ca/hands-on-activities/environmental-science/what-are-the-best-materials-to-use-for-cleaning-water.html__] [|__http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/programs/extension/publicat/wqwm/he419.html__] [|__http://techalive.mtu.edu/meec/module03/WastewaterRegulations.htm__]

[|__http://extension.usu.edu/files/publications/publication/NR_WQ_2012-6.pdf__]