| Water purification systems are without a doubt the | | | | water contains more hydrogen, it's more acidic that |
| best way to protect yourself and your family from | | | | usually. To neutralize it, your body pulls minerals from |
| drinking water contamination. But finding the best | | | | your teeth and bones. On top of this, since free |
| water purification systems for home use can be a bit | | | | radical production increases when your bodily fluids |
| tricky. Here's how you can tell which ones work best. | | | | are more acidic than alkaline, it's believed that cancer |
| The first type of system you can cross off the list is | | | | cells are more likely to develop. |
| pitchers or pour-through filters. Not only are these | | | | Distillation and reverse osmosis systems are the ones |
| filters the least effective, they're also the most | | | | that produce demineralized water. Because they filter |
| expensive. Sure they're cheap initially, but did you | | | | out contaminants based on relative boiling point and |
| know that you need to replace the filter cartridges 2 | | | | molecular size, respectfully, they are not effective at |
| or more times per month? | | | | removing synthetic chemicals. This is because the |
| The best water purification systems for home use | | | | boiling point is lower than water and they are |
| are ones that filter out 99% of all the bad stuff in | | | | molecularly smaller than water is. |
| water while keeping all the important minerals- like | | | | The consensus seems to be that multi-stage filtration |
| calcium, sodium, magnesium, and potassium- in it. In | | | | units are the best water purification systems for |
| fact, filters that use ion-exchange technology will | | | | home use. By using technology like sub-micron |
| replace lead ions with potassium ions to make water | | | | filtration first to remove sediment, turbidity (particles |
| even more mineralized and healthy. | | | | that cause cloudiness, bad taste, and odor) and |
| There seems to be a debate over whether or not | | | | chlorine, it can focus on getting rid of the more |
| demineralized water is good for your health. But most | | | | difficult contaminants in the next stages. Here, a |
| people feel that water with minerals is more healthy, | | | | quality filter will use absorption techniques to filter out |
| simply because our bodies were build to run on both | | | | synthetic chemicals, cysts, and other contaminants. |
| water and minerals. Plus, no where on Earth is there | | | | My family and I use multi stage water purification |
| a natural source of water that doesn't contain these | | | | systems on our kitchen faucet and on our showers. |
| minerals; why should we start drinking demineralized | | | | It's great knowing that whatever water my family |
| water now? | | | | comes into contact with in our home will be safe and |
| Long-term consumption of demineralized water is also | | | | pure. You know what else is great? We only pay |
| believed to increase the risk of having mineral | | | | about 9 cents for a whole gallon of pure, healthy |
| deficiencies later on in life. Because demineralized | | | | water now instead of $60 on just bottled water! |