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Why Home Water Purifiers and Filters Are Important To You

With an aging water infrastructure and breakdowns becoming more common, home water purifiers and filters are increasing in importance. You are the last line of defense against contaminated water.

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Even "safe" municipal systems contain escalating levels of chlorine, which can make you sick, and may contain contaminants that, while safe, have an unpleasant odor and/or taste. If you start using a home water purifier, however, you can spare yourself the worry about problematic water supplies and start supplying your home with inexpensive bottled-quality water.

Your home water purifiers and filters are your last line of defense if your city water system does break down. Read the news. More often these days, we hear about some critical piece of infrastructure running into serious problems - steam pipes exploding in New York City, bridges collapsing in Minnesota, and let's not even talk about New Orleans.

City municipal water systems are also suffering from this infrastructure decay, but because the effects are less dramatic, you don't hear about it on the evening news. Instead, you may notice that your water smells more strongly of chlorine than you remembered, or that it's a...
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Reverse osmosis water filter systems

Reverse osmosis water filter systems Manufacturers and marketers have overstated the usefulness of reverse osmosis water filter systems for home use. As a primary or secondary stage treatment in a large plant or facility this process is useful, but even then it does not meet the somewhat lax government standards for public drinking water. It still has a long way to go before being clean enough to be called safe drinking water. Tap water contains over 2000 known carcinogens.

Filtering water by reverse osmosis blocks only a small number of these. Reverse osmosis relies on a porous membrane through which water is forced at high pressure. Depending on the size of the pores, some chemicals are blocked while other pass through. When a chemical is dissolved in water, most of the resulting molecular sizes are smaller than the size of the water. It stands to reason that if the water is able to pass through the membrane, the majority of the chemicals dissolved in it will go right through as well.

The needs of a user wanting an in home water purification system don't match what reverse osmosis treatment was intended to do. If there is visible...
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