Can Nano-Ag purify contaminated water?

Water vendors like to avoid accountability for illnesses attributable to drinking their water. Sickness from cholera, giardia or coloform bacteria are easy to trace. However, if biocidal (bios, pertaining to life; cide, to kill) agents are added to water containing these pathogens to make it "potable", the health risk is transmogrified over the event horizon from the immediate to the nether region of statistical probability. Then everybody is happy, except, long afterward, the poor cancer patient.

Nano silver, added to chlorinated water, allows the chlorine to precipitate out as insoluble silver chloride. Can this method also be used on the more intractible chloramine?
 

 Model of chloramine
Model of Chloramine, courtesy Wikipedia
Issues in Making Nano Ag

    Particle size / Ions

    Electric Current

    Electrode size / shape

    Polarity Switching

    Stirring or Bubbling

    Tyndall measurements
Nano Ag generator design 		Issues in Using Nano Ag

    Removing Chlorine      

    Chloramine

DISCLAIMER

Nano silver, as well as other complexed forms such as nitrate, is a persistent biocide, and as such is an environmental pollutant.

This website is for the purpose of sharing findings on remediating potable water intentionally contaminated with another environmentally persistent biocide, chlorine and its derivatives. No claims are herein made that silver or its derivatives should be used proactively, prophylactically or even palliatively for any medical or health purpose. We particularly deplore the incorporation of nano silver or other antibacterials into consumer products as routine disinfectants.

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