If you are seriously considering purchasing a drinking water purifier but you have no clue if you really should or what kind you should get, you are in good company. Many people wrongly assume that they really do not need any kind of purification system, even if they really do. Those same people often assume that the water that is coming out of their tap is just fine, and that the city purifies it enough. Unfortunately, what these people do not know is that some studies have shown that there are more than 2,000 possible toxic chemicals in faucet water. Not having a drinking water purifier could wreak havoc on your health.
So, now you may have just decided that you do indeed need some kind of drinking water purifier for your home. Which one should you buy? What are your options? Are some better or worse than others? First of all, there are reverse osmosis systems that use very fine filters to strain out toxins. Although they work well, they are extremely expensive and they need additional system components to work properly. Although they strain out chlorine and other toxins, a reverse osmosis system also strains out magnesium and potassium, which we need in our diets.
Distillation is another type of process that is used in some drinking water purifiers. Distillation is when water is heated
to a vapor, or steam, which is collected in a jug or large containment system. As the steam condenses back into its liquid form of water, it is pure, because all of the sediment, toxins and particles that were in it have been left behind when the water first evaporated. Unfortunately, it seems that this process also demineralizes the water just as reverse osmosis does.
The technology for your drinking water purifier that is recommended by the US EPA is carbon filtration. Dangerous contaminants are bound to the carbon filters in these systems chemically and physically, removing them from the water as it streams through that filter. Just as importantly, the healthy minerals are left behind in the water. High quality carbon filtration systems might use twin or dual filtration and ion exchange to remove 99% of contaminants. An added bonus is that these are almost always much cheaper than the reverse osmosis systems are. These drinking water purifier systems are available as counter top, under counter or whole house systems, depending on your budget and your needs. Some of them are to be used in the shower to absorb more toxins, because many contaminants get on the skin in the bath or shower and become absorbed by the skin into our bodies. These are only a few options for drinking water purifier systems that you might be interested in.
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