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A portable, refillable water dispenser serving batches of water purified of organic and inorganic pollutants includes a portable, refillable and hand-holdable vessel for holding and pouring water having a spout and, inside the portable, refillable and hand-holdable vessel, moving water and still wat

A portable, refillable water dispenser serving batches of water purified of organic and inorganic pollutants includes a portable, refillable and hand-holdable vessel for holding and pouring water having a spout and, inside the portable, refillable and hand-holdable vessel, moving water and still water processing module cooperative to remove inorganic and organic pollutants from water received batchwise by the vessel.

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What is claimed is: 1. A refillable water dispenser serving batches of water purified of organic and inorganic impurities, comprising: a water pitcher having an open top, side and bottom walls enclosing a basin for holding still water, a spout in fluid communication with the basin for pouring water

What is claimed is: 1. A refillable water dispenser serving batches of water purified of organic and inorganic impurities, comprising: a water pitcher having an open top, side and bottom walls enclosing a basin for holding still water, a spout in fluid communication with the basin for pouring water, and a removable lid mounted to the open top of the pitcher; a moving water processing module including a bucket mounted inside the water pitcher having an open top in fluid communication with the open mouth of the pitcher and having side and bottom walls that enclose a volume whose capacity, when filled, accepts a batch of water to be treated that is poured all at once thereinto, a flow-through filter removably mounted to said bucket bottom wall that is fed with the water of each batch of water by action of gravity, said flow-through filter including filter media that acts to remove non-living organic (carbon) and inorganic impurities as said water flows therethrough and to streamwise discharge that water into said basin; and a still water processing module including a UV line radiator disposed within the basin of the pitcher operative after all of the water of a batch of water has been discharged streamwise from the moving water processing module and received by the basin of the pitcher which contains it batchwise as a body of still water to provide UV radiation that is omnipresent to every region of the body of still water contained batchwise by the basin with an intensity and a duration to neutralize living organism organic impurities at every region of the body of still water contained batchwise by the basin, and, thereafter, to provide a signal indication that a batch of water purified of living and nonliving organic and inorganic pollutants is ready to be served through the spout of the pitcher; wherein the removable lid includes a fill opening therethrough, and a mechanism cooperative therewith to allow water to be received through said fill opening but to block direct viewing of UV radiation within said pitcher; wherein said mechanism includes a louvered disc valve. 2. The refillable water dispenser serving batches of water purified of organic and inorganic pollutants of claim 1, wherein said flow-through filter media is an ion exchange ands activated carbon flow-through filter. 3. The refillable water dispenser serving batches of water purified of organic and inorganic pollutants of claim 1, wherein said UV line radiator of said still water processing module is upstanding in, and centrally disposed within, said basin. 4. A water dispenser serving batches of water purified of organic and inorganic pollutants comprising: a water pitcher having an open top, side and bottom walls enclosing a basin for holding still water, a spout in fluid communication with the basin for pouring water, and a removable lid mounted to the open top of the pitcher; a moving water processing module including a bucket mounted inside the water pitcher having an open top in fluid communication with the open mouth of the pitcher and having side and bottom walls that enclose a volume whose capacity, when filled, accepts a batch of water to be treated that is poured all at once thereinto, a flow-through filter removably mounted to said bucket bottom wall that is fed with the water of each batch of water by action of gravity, said flow-through filter including filter media that acts to remove non-living organic (carbon) and inorganic impurities as said water flows therethrough and to streamwise discharge that water into said basin; and a still water processing module including a UV line radiator disposed within the basin of the pitcher operative after all of the water of a batch of water has been discharged streamwise from the moving water processing module and received by the basin of the pitcher which contains it batchwise as a body of still water to provide UV radiation that is omnipresent to every region of the body of still water contained batchwise by the basin with an intensity and a duration to neutralize living organism organic impurities at every region of the body of still water contained batchwise by the basin, and, thereafter, to provide a signal indication that a batch of water purified of living and nonliving organic and inorganic pollutants is ready to be served through the spout of the pitcher; further including a lid seat sensor to disable the UV line radiator in the basin of the pitcher when the removable lid is off of the pitcher.