Why Aren't You Using a Home Water Purifier?
Renee Smallwood Next to clean air, a quality source of healthy water is the most important thing we need, as humans, to survive. We are lucky that the United States has one of the safest water supply systems in the world. As safe as the supply of water is, 8 percent of regulated supply systems in the U. S. report some violation of the safety standards set by federal laws each year. Luckily, most of the violations do not result in illness. With the quality of our water being only as good as the diligence of your local monitoring system, a home purifier water system ensures that you are getting the healthy water you need every day. We can live without food for a while but water is life. Water aids every function of your body. Good health depends on drinking adequate amounts of clean water. Most drinking water comes from a public supply system in the United States. But there are millions of Americans who get there water from private sources, usually wells. These sources are not regulated. About half of our water comes from underground and the other half comes from surface bodies of water--rivers, lakes and reservoirs. Pollution comes in many forms and originates from lots of places. Pesticides and fertilizers, chemicals from factories are just a few examples. When it rains, the runoff carries many types of contamination, that collect in our sewers and then flow into local streams and rivers. Millions of people do not dispose of household waste properly. Paints, solvents, and household chemicals end up in the drain or landfills. Even airborne chemicals can be washed out of the air by rain and end up in the drinking water. Arsenic can be washed into the water from erosion. So contamination can even happen naturally. The main contaminants that waste water treatment addresses are biological, in other words killing or removing anything that can make us sick. The most common disinfection method is some form of chlorine. Mostly sodium hypochlorite (main ingredient in bleach) is used. The chlorine is released when it is dissolved in water. There are drawbacks to using chlorine. The first is that it does not kill all the pathogens that could make us sick. It works well against bacteria but has little effect on pathogenic protozoans that form cysts in water, like Giardia or Cryptosporidium. The other major drawback is that harmful by-products are formed when the chlorine reacts with organic compounds that naturally occur in the water. These by-products, trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids, are carcinogenic and are regulated by the EPA. Water treatment plants try to remove as much of the organic material as possible before the chlorine is added, to keep the by-product formation as low as possible. But it is impossible to effectively remove all of them. So traces of these added contaminants are in our tap water. A home purifier water system would address these tap water contaminant issues. Make sure the home water purifier that you choose, removes the pollutants that you are concerned about. Not all filtration systems are created equal. Check the product performance information sheet to ensure that it meets NSF standards. After all, you want the best you can get for the heath of your family. About the Author
Renee Smallwood has been a health care professional for more than 30 years. She sees first hand the health effects of proper hydration. To learn more about what you can do to ensure you are getting the best water to maintain a healthy lifestyle, visit her blog at http://waterqualitysolutions.blogspot.com/ Renee Smallwood may be contacted at http://waterqualitysolutions.blogspot.com/. Click here to view more articles by Renee Smallwood. Reprinted with Permission from IdeaMarketers.com
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