Chennai, Mar 21 (KNN) IIT Madras has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with MSME body TANSTIA-FNF Service for technology transfer of water treatment analysis kits.

The kits have been designed to treat drinking water mainly in rural areas.

Krishnan Balasubramaniam, Dean, Industrial Consultancy and Sponsored Research, IIT-Madras and C Babu, Chairman, Tanstia-FNF Service Centre, signed the MoU on Monday.

C Babu said in five years, he expects around 1,500 entrepreneurs to manufacture the water filter.

The research at IIT-Madras for developing the filter and the kit was funded by International Development Research Centre, Canada.

The water filter technology removes turbidity, organic matter, colour, odour, and most bacteriological contamination can be removed.

Water is filtered through fine sand, plastic wire mesh, activated carbon/charcoal to give a potable water at 20 litres in just 30 minutes while other domestic water filters can give hourly only one litre output. Water is collected in a container and chlorine tablet is added to remove microbes after which the filtered water can be used.