Show Water Purified by Electricity The Webster method of purifying wastewater waste-water by means of electricity has been tested by Dr Fermi in i theJHygienic Institute Insti-tute at Munich Germany During the course of the experiments it was found that the water became purified in about fifteen minutes the organic sustances being be-ing reduced by about onehalf and the suspended substance being precipated to the bottom The smell of the water was perceptibly improved While the results of the tests show that electricity does not at the present time realize re-alize the ideal of water purification it has two great advantages first that very little lit-tle iron is precipitated and its removal is not so difficult as in the case of purification j by chemical means and second the dissolved dis-solved organic substances which are not precipated by any of the known chemical methods hitnerto employed are at least partially removed by the electric current I |