| If you are thinking about the purchase of a home | | | | before the water is sent out to your home. You |
| reverse osmosis water purification system to | | | | want a system that will perform tasks for you that |
| eliminate the threat of contaminants in your water, | | | | the water treatment facilities were incapable of |
| then you might want to reconsider. | | | | doing. |
| These systems are actually not water purifiers at all, | | | | The treatment centers also use porous membranes |
| as they don't come close to removing all of the | | | | to remove impurities from your water, and they also |
| harmful substances residing in our reservoirs. They | | | | disinfect the water in order to remove as many |
| are overpriced, energy consuming, wasteful, and | | | | parasitic threats as possible. |
| inadequate for your needs. | | | | Membrane filters cannot block the passage of |
| These systems generally cost far more than most | | | | chemical agents, traces of toxic heavy metals, or |
| true water purification systems, while doing about a | | | | anything microscopic as noted earlier. The granular |
| third of the work that these more effective | | | | activated carbon pre-filter is he only saving grace of |
| apparatus' do. | | | | a home reverse osmosis system. |
| They need to be running constantly in order to | | | | This filter is designed to remove as much as 99.99% |
| cleanse your water even to the minimal extent they | | | | of the chemical and pharmaceutical contaminants |
| do, and this can noticeably increase your electric bill. | | | | present in your water. |
| R.O. systems also waste up to five times more | | | | It will not remove the toxic heavy metals that have |
| water than they cleanse, while other systems waste | | | | eluded the filters at the treatment facilities, nor will it |
| little if any water. | | | | remove the disinfectant resistant bacteria likely |
| Aside from having a granular activated carbon filter | | | | present in your water. |
| attached to them, home reverse osmosis systems | | | | The system that you use will have to have two |
| simply perform a redundant task. | | | | additional filters in order to deal with these pollutants. |
| The porous membrane filters these appliances use to | | | | A home reverse osmosis water filtration system |
| "cleanse" your water are designed to remove | | | | won't provide you with the security of an ion |
| particulates, and they probably won't even remove | | | | exchange, or a sub micron filter. |
| the particulates that they encounter. This is because | | | | An ion exchange attracts heavy metals to it, replaces |
| whatever reaches the appliance will be microscopic, | | | | these substances with sodium and potassium, and |
| and therefore these filters cannot prevent their | | | | keeps your pH levels in perfect balance. |
| passage. | | | | A sub micron filter will intercept the disease bearing |
| The reason that I know this is that these | | | | parasites in your water, so that the danger of |
| microscopic particulates escaped the demineralization | | | | consuming these pathogens is eliminated. |
| process performed by your local water treatment | | | | A home reverse osmosis water filter system is |
| facility. | | | | obviously something you can do without. Be smart, |
| There is no need for your system at home to | | | | and install a purification system in your home that |
| repeat a task that has already been performed | | | | meets all of your contaminant removal requirements. |