The basic element of all living things and vital for all kind of activities is water.Today getting pure drinking water is big calamity in developing counties. Availability of water resources is very less and also contaminated by various habits of human and animals. Recently lot of water purifiers are available in market which is constructed with chemical and physical disinfectants. These are having some disadvantages such as odour, affordability and cause some side effect to the consumers. The present study is focussed to replace the chemical and physical agent by metal disinfectants. During ancient period, people used copper and brass pots to store drinking water. Lot of studies are carried out to prove that metals such as Brass and Copper have disinfectant properties. This article reviews the antimicrobial activity of copper against water borne pathogens, mechanism and concentration.
