
The two-year study showed that the peel of eight tomatoes can remove heavy metal ions such as lead from a litre of water within a period of one hour.
The findings can help nearly 800 million people without access to clean water to get safer drinking water at a low cost.
According to Mallampati, an alumnus of India's University of Pune, the results can help a vast number of people living in remote areas without access to water purification devices and people living in villages with groundwater contaminated by industrial pollution.
Mallampati, a researcher in material chemistry, is doing his Ph.D in the NUS on "synthesis and characterisation of novel materials for potential applications including water treatment and catalysis".
Source-IANS
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