What's Wrong With a Reverse Osmosis Water Purifier For Home Use?

With all of the shocking news that's come out lately about our water supplies, you might be tempted to get a reverse osmosis water purifier for your home. Filtering your water at home is a good idea, but reverse osmosis might not be the best way to do this. Read this article to find out why.

Home water filtration has become a big issue recently! And there's good reason why.

It's been shown that our water contains traces of everything from pesticides to prescription drugs. If you think your tap water is free from organic impurities, think again! Microorganisms like Giardia or Cryptosporidium that can form cysts are small enough to pass through many municipalities' hundred year old filtering systems, and their dormant, cyst state protects them from being killed by chlorine.

Speaking of chlorine! The very chemical we use to sterilize our water is itself toxic. Also, in certain circumstances it can form highly carcinogenic compounds with organic material on the way from the water treatment facility to your tap.

If you think bottled water is the answer, I'm sorry to say that bottled water is no better than tap water. As a matter of fact, the number of federal restrictions that cover bottled water are fewer than those that cover tap water.

Besides, bottled water companies spend billions each year trying to convince us their water comes from remote mountain glaciers. The truth is most of it come straight out of a tap, just like your water at home.

To protect the health of your family and yourself, you absolutely must filter your water at home. The only real question is which type of filter to use. Should you use a reverse osmosis water purifier or another type of technology?

Let's talk about how reverse osmosis works in order to answer this question.

Reverse osmosis works by putting pressure on the water to be filtered so that it passes through a porous membrane. The water passes through, but the impurities do not.

There are two problems with reverse osmosis for home drinking water use. 1) It's very inefficient. You'll waste about three gallons of water for every pure gallon you make. 2) It filters out everything--even the stuff we need in our water so that it tastes good and is healthy for us.

We need certain minerals in our water like calcium, for instance. If your body does not get enough calcium, it leaches it from your own bones!

Calcium and other minerals are in our water naturally in trace amounts. They may be in the water in extremely small quantities, but that's enough for your body to maintain optimum health.

There are other ways to filter and purify your water at home that actually leaves the good stuff in.

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R. Lee Cole is an avid health and exercise enthusiast who loves to make his research available to everyone via the Internet. Check out Lee's website for more information about this important topic.