There are a variety of home water purifiers on the market. Some of them remove chlorine and odor. Some remove additional chemicals and contaminants. It just makes sense to choose a water purifier that blocks everything possible. There is very little difference in price between the best water purifier and the worst, but there is a big difference in quality.
The problems with the use of chlorine by public bodies
Water purification techniques have come a long way since we began adding chlorine to the water in the late 1800s. Public treatment facilities do not use chlorine because it is the safest or even the best way to disinfect the water. Some bacteria, particularly during the spore or cyst stage are resistant to chlorine disinfection.
Public water purification facilities use chlorine because it is the cheapest choice. The level of chlorine found in some tap water is higher than what is recommended as "safe" to swim in. The taste and smell of the tap water is so bad that many people have been using activated carbon water purifiers on their taps for years. But, many people turned to bottled water.
Water purification through chlorine disinfection creates by-products known as THMs. According to the Breast Cancer Fund, "one common factor among women with breast cancer is that they all have 50-60% higher levels of these THMs in their fat tissue than women without breast cancer." According to the American Journal of Public Health, "Up to two-thirds of the harmful effects of chlorine are due to inhalation and skin absorption while showering."
Using bottled water doesn't solve the problems
There are a number of problems with choosing bottled water over bottling your own with a home water purifier. First, there are no regulations regarding which water purification system a bottled water company must use. Almost all bottled water is simply tap water that has been run through water purifiers at the plant.
Recently one bottled water company was required to remove the words "spring water" from its label, since the water did not come from a pure mountain spring, as customers were led to believe. Depending on the location of the factory, the tap water could be of worse quality than what you have in your own home.
If you currently drink only bottled water, you are still showering in chlorinated water. The amount that is absorbed through you skin in the shower is hundreds of times higher than what you would get by drinking the same water. If you are going to shower in it, you may as well be drinking it. Neither option is safe.
The only answer to the problems
You have more control over what you are drinking by choosing a high quality in home water purification system. You can get a single water purifier for the kitchen tap or you can have water purifiers all over the house. To save time and money, some people are choosing a whole house water purification system to provide non-chlorinated, chemical free water every where they go.
While just about any home water purifier can block chlorine, only the best home water purifiers attempt to remove THMs. It is in your best interest to find a home water purification system that successfully blocks THMs. It's just the safest thing to do.
Since you are now convinced of the importance of having a water purification system, the most logical question that you might ask is: what water purification technology is used by these sorts of systems? It is very important to know the methods of water purification, since you will have to choose from a large variety of water purification systems.
Therefore, we may start by saying that there are three types of technologies presently used in order to purify water: the physical water purification, the chemical water purification and the biological water purification. In the next few paragraphs we will present each of every water purification technology, so that you will know what water purification system to choose.
The physical water purification is one of the first methods of water purification known to men. It consists in filtration techniques (basically, the liquid flows through a filter that stops suspended solid particles) that remove solids from water. These solid objects can vary in size, from large ones to smaller ones with the smallest particles being as big as 0,001 microns. This water purification technology is the main method of filtering liquids, since it can stop from 90 to 99% of the particles suspended in water. Therefore it is also the most important of the methods.
Another way of purifying liquids is the chemical purification. The chemical methods of water purification are used when the liquid is contaminated with solutions that cannot be filtrated by first type of filter. There are many chemical methods of purifying a liquid, varying from the use of oxidizing agents (in order to counteract reducing agents) to the use of chlorine (used for disinfection).
Distillation is yet another water purification technology that is based on the use of chemical reactions, the liquid is boiled into a special evaporation unit; the purified water is transformed into vapors that condensate into a different recipient; since the contaminants cannot vaporize, they will remain into the first special evaporation unit.
The last of the purification methods is the biological one. Since the first two did almost the entire job, the last of the methods of water purification has to reduce to nothing the number of solid (and mainly organic) particles in the liquid. This procedure implies the use of short-lived bacteria that feed on the residues from the water. After their death, these bacteria solidify and drop at the bottom of the water.
As we have said, these are the main methods of water purification. However, one water purification technology relies on the other one. That means that, in order to drink the most clear and healthy water, a water purification system must rely on all of these three methods of water purification.
Each of these purification technologies must be used together, in a certain sequence (which is: first, the physical water purification; second, the chemical water purification; third, the biological water purification). When combined, these three ways of purifying a liquid can produce water that is free of any contamination.
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