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 Drinking
water filtration.
Drinking Water - Water filtration systems use a
variety of methods
The amount of people who still get their drinking water without
filtering it is astounding. Many individual believe filtered water
is a luxury they can't afford. However, in recently there have been more
alerts for the public to boil water before using simply because of
busted line, spillage, and other such problems. The facts are,
however, that even when we are not warned to boil our water, tap water
that is deemed safe to use still contains contaminated such as lead,
arsenic, and bacteria.
The EPA has set standards for about 90 contaminants, which are found in
our drinking
water. For a complete list of all the possible contaminants, you
can view the EPA's
standards, and the possible source of each contaminant along with its
possible health
effects, at:
www.epa.gov/safewater/mcl.html. Drinking pure water should not
be seen as a luxury, but a necessity.
Filtering systems are not as expensive as you may expect, and actually,
it is less expensive than purchasing bottled water. When you drink
bottled water, you spend money weekly, purchasing it, but when you
install water filters, you have the initial cost of the system, then you
will receive an endless supply of pure drinking water, direct from your
faucet.
Different water filtration systems use different methods of removing
contaminants from our water supply. Each system has advantages and
disadvantages, for instance, carbon filters are convenient, and make
water taste better but will not remove lead, antimony, arsenic,
asbestos, barium, beryllium, cadmium, chromium, copper, fluoride,
mercury, nickel, nitrates, nitrites, selenium, sulfate, thallium,
certain radio nuclides, dissolved inorganic contaminants, metals,
minerals, or salts like those that cause hard water or scale from the
water. Reverse osmosis, will remove lead, however, it also removes
essential minerals, and these filters require frequent maintenance and
replacement.
When doing your research, don't forget to investigate the convenience of
the system
and ask the following questions: Does a plumber have to install
this particular model? How often does the filter need to be
replaced? Many sellers may hide these issues and costs, to make
their products more appealing. How well a water filter performs
can be verified by reading the product's performance data sheet.
This will list all of the contaminants that filter or system is
certified to remove from the water and at what percentage. In
several states, it is the law that this information be included either
as part of the promotional literature, or in the package itself.
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