Mobile water filter station unveiled in Rīga

On Wednesday, the mobile filtration unit purified water from the canal. It was no longer yellowish in colour and had no odour. It looked just like tap water. It tasted the same too – perhaps with just a very slight mineral aftertaste.

Ivars Gaters, Head of the Water Treatment and Supply Service at “Rīgas ūdens”, said that the blue shipping container contains everything needed to draw water from various locations – quartz sand and activated carbon filters in metal cylinders, along w...