This will shock you for sure! Your glass of water contains millions of micro-organisms confirms research. The water glass that will soon trickle drinking water down your throat contains nearly 10 million “good bacteria”. These bacteria are actually keeping the water safe, states a new research study.
The clean glass of drinking water actually is loaded with good bacteria that are in charge of water purification to a large extent. These are the same bacteria that are also found in purification plants and water pipes. This is an unexplored field to a great extent but has great potential, confirm the research scientists.
A glass of clean water has harmless microorganisms and bacteria that breed in the inside of the water pipes in our house, the plumbing system and also in the water treatment plant that holds drinking water. They attach in the form of a sticky but thin coating that is termed as biofilm. The water pipe is practically crawling with these microbes and the biofilm also covers all the surfaces and is formed out of a huge diversity of bacterial species.
Catherine Paul from Sweden’s Lund University, who is associated with the research study was very excited when she claimed “A previously completely unknown ecosystem has revealed itself to us. Formerly, you could hardly see any bacteria at all and now, thanks to techniques such as massive DNA sequencing and flow cytometry, we suddenly see eighty thousand bacteria per milliliter in drinking water.”
The researchers have deduced that there is a definite relation between water quality and the bacterial composition and regarding this Paul stated “We suspect there are ‘good’ bacteria that help purify the water and keep it safe – similar to what happens in our bodies. Our intestines are full of bacteria, and most of the time when we are healthy, they help us digest our food and fight illness.” The researchers hope to steer good bacteria for water purification in a better manner with this latest research.
The study details are published in the scientific journal Microbes and Environments.
