I was shocked to discover how many of the leading brands of home water treatment systems simply fail to do their job. The modern menace of harmful synthetic chemicals like pesticides are so small, they are able to pass through most filters.
If you look at the main types of water treatment products available today, you have three main choices. These are kitchen jug filters, reverse osmosis (RO) and carbon block filters.
Although the kitchen jugs are good for reducing some of the chlorine, improving the taste and smell, they work out very expensive in the long run due to replacement cartridge costs. It is also true that while they are convenient, they do not remove most of the most dangerous chemicals.
Although their popularity is fading fast, reverse osmosis home water treatment systems are still aggressively advertized.
There are many problems with this type of filter, mainly the fact that although they are very expensive to purchase and maintain, they still do not protect you. They also strip out essential minerals like calcium and potassium.
In fact, the sellers of these water treatment products often advise to add on more filters to improve their removal rates!
Their main fault is their old-fashioned filters that can only manually remove the chemicals. As many like pesticides and pharmaceuticals are molecularly smaller than water, they are able to get into your household supply still and put your health at risk.
They also waste a tremendous amount, for example an RO unit delivering 5 gallons of treated water per day may discharge 40 to 90 gallons of wastewater per day to the septic system. That means they discard up to 80% of what they use bad for your wallet and the environment.
The next type of home water treatment systems are carbon block. These are the latest cutting-edge filters that can remove all of the toxins from your supply.
They can manually and chemically remove them, with the best ones achieving a 99% removal rate for all the main toxins, especially the synthetic ones, lead and chlorine.
This type of treatment is extremely effective and in addition they waste little water and retain those important minerals.
With more and more chemicals being used and created each year, the situation looks set to deteriorate further. Add to this the fact that many municipals are now disinfecting the supply with chloramines instead of chlorine, leading to higher levels of lead.
Using the best home water treatment systems will protect you and your family from any present and future contaminants in the supply, to restore your peace of mind and boost your health.
Visit my website below if you would like to learn more about the types of water filtration systems that I personally recommend and use.
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