Best ways to disinfect water?

[my_hat_stinks]

I tried to fill a drowning chamber with water using a bottle emptier, but apparently my duplicants decided to use water from ****'s latrine. I have no idea where they got it, I only noticed when one duplicant was stuck in a hand-washing loop for almost a full cycle after mopping up a leak so now I have a room full of this:

I haven't really bothered with disinfecting water before, what's a good way to clean this? Also, what's a good way to clean my duplicants so they don't spend a day washing their hands?

[ohnoezitsjojo]

for disinfecting water, you can pump the water into a water reservoir that's in a room full of chlorine! the germs will die really quickly.
i made a liquid shutoff between different reservoirs because germs do take a while to die especially if there's a lot, so if you keep using sieved water the germ count will keep increasing as more and more water is added to the reservoir. 

 

for cleaning your duplicants i don't think there's any other way apart from hand sanitisers/ sinks/ wash basins, hand sanitisers are faster but only by a little bit. once you have your water's germs & plumbing under control, your dupes shouldn't take too long washing their hands :)

[psusi]

Are you sure one of them didn't pee in the tank?  In regular water germ concentrations that high shouldn't really be possible since they die off fast when there are so many of them.  At any rate, just store it in a reservoir in a room filled with chlorine gas and the germs will all be dead in a few minutes.

[Baer]

I prefer this solution, works fine. you can connect the water filter directly to the last tank in the incoming polluted water. no coming out gems. Automation goes directly to my wild pokeshells. 

 

[my_hat_stinks]

1 hour ago, psusi said:

Are you sure one of them didn't pee in the tank?  In regular water germ concentrations that high shouldn't really be possible since they die off fast when there are so many of them.

It's definitely all pure water, or as pure as it can be considering it's a ball of germs. It's in a drowning chamber, the germs do drop when I'm watching it but seem to randomly multiply when I'm doing something else. It might have something to do with the fact I'm slightly compressing the water to make sure all the gasses are pushed out of the room, I had trouble with the occasional bit of co2 saving a critter. When water is compressed into a single square so are the germs, so maybe they're just not always decreasing again when the water spreads out?

 

I've gone with the water reservoirs and put a germ sensor on the output. Not the neatest, but it works. This was just temporary anyway, I can do it more neatly when I hook it up to my water sieve.

[lee1026]

turning the water into ice/steam is an reliable way to kill everything in them. For the best guaranteed germ free water for the soda machine, use the output from a steam turbine.

[cryops]

From all water-purifying designs i saw and tried that one i find most easy, efficient and foolproof. Found it in article on gamepedia. In chlorine atmosphere full purifying, no matter how many germs, occur in one cycle. Automation very simple - cycle sensor set for 50% active duration directly connected to left and right airlocks and center airlock connected through NOT gate. Everything else is optional.

[psusi]

@cryops I am not sure why you have hydrogen in the room to the left, but with only doors between, every time they open for someone to come in/out, some of the hydrogen and chlorine are going to swap, and some of the chlorine and oxygen are going to swap.

 

[Baer]

@psusi search for Self-sealing Airlocks Mod. 

[cryops]

9 hours ago, psusi said:

@cryops I am not sure why you have hydrogen in the room to the left, but with only doors between, every time they open for someone to come in/out, some of the hydrogen and chlorine are going to swap, and some of the chlorine and oxygen are going to swap.

 

Yes, for compact builds im using mod Self-sealing airlocks which makes airlock always airtight. But it just my try in making base as small as possible. There is no any real problem in using waterlocks or fully sealing chlorine room with walls after it built.

[Baer]

vanilla doors should function that way without mod, or the electric one at least.