Model

The data transferred into the text file are plotted into five graphs, under two figures. The first plotted figure (shown in Figure 5) represents economical impact, including graphs of the amount of water produced per hour, the cost to filter per 100 liters of input water, and the total cost for 200 days. The plots also compare to the current method of distillation (represented by blue dashed lines). All of the values used for the mangrove filter method are listed above in the code section. The values used for distillation that are not mentioned in the above code section are listed below.

1. Distillation columns cost very little to maintain, so we left the cost to maintain distillation columns as $0.
2. In a distillation plant, there are 220 employees, so in maintaining, we used 220 for employees.

The second figure plotted (shown in Figure 6) models the environmental effect from the filters.