International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395-0056 Volume: 07 Issue: 09 | Sep 2020 www.irjet.net p-ISSN: 2395-0072 © 2020, IRJET | Impact Factor value: 7.529 | ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal | Page 617 CONSTRUCTION OF IN-PIPE WATER FILTER FOR RURAL AREA Mr. K.M.Kangle 1 , Ms. Sakshi Thorat 2 , Dr Vilas Karjinni 3 1 Assistant Professor, Environmental Department, K.I.T.'s College of Engineering, Kolhapur 2 PG Student, Environmental Department, K.I.T.'s College of Engineering, Kolhapur. 3 Directort, K.I.T.'s College of Engineering, Kolhapur. ----------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract: Conventional rapid sand filter is been used by most of the treatment plant in urban areas. As rapid sand filter used in urban areas generally have faster filtration rate, and the media which is used for rapid sand filter is generally or locally easily available. As the media used is generally sand or gravel etc. but maintenance of such filter which are used is very high. There rare availability of water treatment plant in rural areas and hence there is lack of safe drinking water in rural areas. Thus use of direct in-pipe water filter unit is economical as it is provided as a separate unit. This research paper details out the working of dual media filter. A dual media filter using layer of burnt clay was experimented. This gave good results for treating water and making it useful for domestic and drinking use. Key words: direct in-pipe, burnt clay and dual media filter Introduction Water purification means purifying water to make it liable as drinking water. Although natural water is drinkable for human as it also looks clean many times but it may have some germs and pathogens many times. So without treatment the water also looks pure sometimes but actually it is not and also may have foil smell or pungent smell without purification. Natural water contains micro organism in it which cannot be seen by naked eyes. Sometimes also may have bacteria in it. We cannot observe it with naked eyes. In addition water pollution is getting serious thus purification is very necessary to ensure safe drinking water which is very important to our health The aim of water treatment is to remove contaminants or reduce them to a concentration so that to provide safe drinking water to the community. Water treatment depends mainly upon the composition of water and quality of water. Water treatment generally contains two procedure steps one is removal of physical removal of solid particle and other is killing or deactivating micro organism by chemical disinfection and also removal of organic particle. In water supply chain water treatment plays important role. And also it plays role in sustainable management. This project aims to determine efficiency of filtration in removal of pollutants. Tap water supply plays major role in actual supply of drinking water, but in reality its direct use is not appropriate. Also it is unsafe to use it .Water directly from tap may have high level of chlorine, lead etc. It also has high level of impurities sometime, which can lead to formation of precipitate. It also has huge amount of chlorine as it is used for disinfection which is also not good for human body. Due to presence of micro organism it may taste bad sometimes. Sometimes used water is reused for many purposes so for that purpose chorine is used at large level for cleaning it. Also many times tap water has lot of fine microorganism in it. So taking in consideration this point it can be said that purification of water is very important. Thus filtration can be turned as important factor for safe drinking water. Also it can be used for purification. Particle in the source can be removed from various mechanism used in the filter. The particle size plays very important role in filtration process. If particle size is same as void size they will stick there in that place. Now a days various type of potable filters are available which can be used for filtration. So chemical component and suspended particle are removed by using it. Various filter media are used for this purpose. Now filter should be preferred more for many reasons, few among them are: it requires less mechanical power, no high maintenance training is required, media used or material used is locally available materials, and less maintenance so this is very economic and it can be used in poor isolated areas. Filter generally has easy design simple to operate and very economic. The material used in filters are sand, coal, gravel etc. And some granular substances so basically it is very easily and cheaply available .Thus using this filter we can use potable drinking water. So this filter can be used in various developing countries as it can be used for water purification. Thus raw water can be converted into drinking water that is potable water. Filters can be used in developing countries because of its low energy requirement and its durability is more. It can definitely reduce some amount of organic and inorganic pollutants from raw water. Also it shows its result on color, turbidity, hardness and many such water parameters Methodology Site Selection:- The village selected for study is Kandalgaon near Kolhapur city in Maharashtra. The drinking water supplied to the village is from its upstream lake. The water is stored in the overhead Sintex tank. The treatment provided is sedimentation and disinfection by