| Water all over the world is becoming increasingly | | | | source itself. That is, no more do you have to have |
| unsafe for consumption. While you are drinking the | | | | single water filtration units. Faucets, kitchens, |
| water from a tap or a source like bottled water, you | | | | showers, toilets, all sources of water received filtered |
| have to secure the fact that it is pure enough to | | | | water after the water is filtered at the main source. |
| drink. Remember that contaminants and pollutants | | | | This has the added advantage of checking air |
| can perpetuate every variety of water. These could | | | | pollution ensuing from the dissolved impurities in the |
| enter the water in bottling plants or the common | | | | water. But this is expensive and maintenance charges |
| corporation pipes that provide you with water. Water | | | | do not disappear with it. Recommendable for a large |
| is today affected by both organic and inorganic | | | | house and a big family. |
| wastes. Also important is the nature of the water | | | | 2. Faucet mounted water treatment system: This is |
| treatment system that the water is passing through. | | | | primarily concerned with filtering drinking or cooking |
| These will definitely ensure a certain level of | | | | water and is a single unit filter usable for a single |
| purification but that necessarily does not mean that | | | | faucet and cannot ensure filtration at other points in |
| all the harmful contaminants have been taken care of. | | | | the house. |
| Bottling firms too have conceded to the fact that | | | | 3. Shower head filters: Given the fact that the water |
| they do not necessarily make use of the best water | | | | pouring out of your shower is also impure and can |
| treatment system possible. | | | | cause skin and breathing disorders, this is the best |
| A public water system is efficient. But obviously this | | | | water treatment you can use for your bath water. |
| water comes with a high concentration of | | | | Again this is a single unit purifier. |
| contaminants which need to be taken care of. | | | | 4. Counter top filters: They are again usable to filter |
| Bottled water could be an alternative. But you also | | | | water at a single source. They are fixed at separate |
| have to bear the expenses of that. | | | | individual counters. There can be under the counter |
| A water treatment system at home is an obvious | | | | varieties which of course are not visible by design. |
| truth of our age. We all use some kind of water | | | | 5. There can a few personal use water filter |
| purification or the other. Cleanliness and purity of | | | | systems. These are better options compared to |
| water cannot be ascertained at any point, but the | | | | bottled water in the long run, financially speaking. You |
| most we could do is to ensure the best water | | | | could buy these online or off the market. These |
| treatment suited to our homely requirements to | | | | would be basically water bottles or pitchers and |
| protect ourselves from the onslaught of water | | | | containers fitted with filters and sometimes straws |
| pollution. | | | | with filters. |
| What are the various forms of a domestic water | | | | It is difficult to say which would be the best water |
| treatment system? | | | | treatment system? But that is not the point of |
| 1. Whole house water treatment system: often | | | | contention of this article. Here we have described to |
| regarded as the best water treatment system | | | | you the necessity of using/consuming purified water |
| possible, this particular form of purifying the water | | | | and the ways in which water can be purified. The |
| involves the treatment of water in the house at the | | | | choice is yours now. |