Water Filtration

Whole house water filtration systems can be a waste of money if you install the wrong system, or a real health boost to you and your family if you get it right.

If you’ve ever had to limit the amount of water you use in a day you’ll know how much we take water for granted and how much we need. It’s water we reach for when we’re cooking, drinking, washing, cooling down, bathing and cleaning up.

Good quality water is something we need through the day and not just when we reach for a cool drink or brush our teeth. So whole house water filtration systems make a lot of sense if your local water authorities are doing a poor job of getting clean water to your home.

And many municipal and rural water officials are delivering unhealthy water to their communities. It’s not all their fault, but tiny traces of pharmaceutical drugs, chemicals and other harmful contaminants are regularly found in tap water.

For example, official testing in Philadelphia has found 56 pharmaceuticals or byproducts in drinking water there, including drugs for mental illness, high cholesterol, pain, heart problems, asthma and even epilepsy. This is treated water that has been through the city’s water purification plant. It’s the water that has passed federal government regulations and is legally permitted to go to your tap. (Even worse, out in the water catchment areas of that city an alarming 63 of these pharmaceuticals and byproducts have been found.)

Officials defend their water quality by saying minute amounts of these things are not harmful. Well, is that correct? Male fish living in water with parts per trillion of pharmaceuticals become feminine — remarkable as it sounds, they begin creating egg yolk proteins, something only females do naturally. Why would this not be happening to people drinking contaminated water in the so-called safety of their own homes?

It is remarkable that complex, modern water purification equipment is not able to stop these dangerous contaminants. But this is a fact. And if you live in a community where chlorine is regularly added to the water after it has been treated you will know this is correct. Because chlorine is a last-ditch attempt to kill whatever got through the municipal filters.

Equally alarming is the fact that of the dozens and dozens of common pharmaceuticals found in treated water, officials will almost never test for more than five or six because this is all that federal government requires them to look for.

So, it is likely that your household is being drenched in contaminated water. Whole house water filtration systems suddenly become good investments.

Actually, decent whole house water filtration systems can be a rather small investment because you don’t need to go high-tech, rather you just need to install equipment that will do two things: first catch the drugs and chemicals, and second keep the natural essential minerals like calcium that are removed by some systems like reverse osmosis. You can do all this for a modest price with a small collection of different filters, each doing a different job.

Let me recommend you look around on the Internet and find the whole house water filtration systems that will remove chemicals and retain healthy minerals as I’ve just described. But whatever you do, seriously consider investing in a set of filters that, together will give you one of the whole house water filtration systems that can truly protect your and your family from the harmful contaminants your water authorities turn a blind eye to.

An Ezine article

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