| As pollution continues to take a strong hold | | | | treatment facilities worldwide. |
| worldwide a sink water filter should be deemed | | | | So, if searching for a sink water filter to eliminate this |
| necessary for every single home. Let`s face it, | | | | serious threat for you and your family what do you |
| cancer and other diseases are rampant and on the | | | | look for? For starters, do not consider buying bottled |
| increase. Governments provide us with disinfected | | | | water in the meantime. Bottled water is virtually |
| clean looking water to prevent water-borne diseases. | | | | unregulated. It could be that the bottled water is of |
| However, the chemical used to disinfect the drinking | | | | the same quality as your tap water. It is also very |
| water has created many other serious concerns that | | | | expensive. |
| governments do not deal with. | | | | No need for expensive Reverse Osmosis systems |
| An area of major concern is the chlorine by products | | | | unless you have dirty water.They are expensive to |
| called trihalomethanes or THMs. These are created in | | | | maintain and slow at filtering the water. R/O does |
| our drinking water when chlorine is added. It | | | | not remove VOCs. If you were to consider this |
| immediately reacts with the organic matter in the | | | | method of sink water filter you would need to |
| water to form chlorine resistant THMs that can cause | | | | purchase a second type of filter to remove the |
| a number of serious physical problems including | | | | VOCs. Not very convenient is it? |
| cancer. | | | | The good news is the most expensive system is not |
| The good news is that the right sink water filter will | | | | the most effective sink water filter. A filter containing |
| eliminate THMs. Another area of concern is volatile | | | | activated carbon is recognized by the U.S. EPA as the |
| organic chemicals or VOCs. These are synthetic | | | | most effective in removing THMs and VOCs. |
| chemicals that are common in drinking water.They | | | | An award winning company has added to this |
| enter the water via air pollution, septic system | | | | producing multi-media carbon block filters that also |
| cleaning, pest control, weed control and fumigation. | | | | filter out sediment and chlorine resistant cysts such |
| VOCs also cause a number of physical problems | | | | as Giardia and Cryptosporidium. This multi stage |
| including lung and skin irritation, liver and kidney | | | | system filters out the largest variety of |
| function, disruption to nervous system performance | | | | contaminants. |
| and cancer. | | | | By now you may agree that a sink water filter is |
| The Ralph Nader Research Group has stated that | | | | necessary in this twenty first century to prevent the |
| "U.S. drinking water contains more than 2,100 toxic | | | | possibility of serious disease. For more information on |
| chemicals that can cause cancer." These figures | | | | what my research has concluded please click on the |
| would be much the same in any chlorine water | | | | link. |