This scared me to death the other day. Reverse osmosis home systems are the market leader in the huge water purifying industry.
That is a fact, and I read it in a very reputable publication.
There's got to be good reasons for this. But ... wait a minute!
Thirty years ago I started using water filters to make sure the water coming into our home was really fit to drink. At that point I didn't know anything. I just called a supplier with a reputation and bought his filter.
Fortunately, this business did not sell reverse osmosis home systems. Because what I didn't know until quite recently is you have to treat reverse osmosis water before you can drink it! That is also a fact.
Just call up your local city water authority and they'll confirm this. They will almost certainly use a reverse osmosis system in their purification plant, and if they do they will definitely add chlorine to the water as it leaves the filter. In other words, even the lax government standards that local authorities have to meet won't give the tick to reverse osmosis water. There are nasty organic substances and dangerous chemicals and non-organic elements pouring out of reverse osmosis filters so freely that the authorities have to stop them with a second line of defense. chlorine. (That's why some local municipality water sometimes smells like a hospital corridor.)
You can't rely on local government standards and regulations to protect you and your family from the many dangerous chemicals in reverse osmosis water. And for the same reason you should think very, very carefully about installing one of the expensive reverse osmosis home systems. They are inefficient.
What's more these systems take out the naturally occurring trace minerals dissolved in water. Your bodies desperately need these elements, and some of them will only get into your bodies via drinking water. Reverse osmosis home systems scrub out every single one of them, and you're left with something like sterile, almost unhealthy water.
I would say reverse osmosis water plus chlorine is OK for Gulf State governments need to desalinate salt water for their people's needs. And for grunts in our army who set up camps for short times in some pretty inhospitable places. (Try the deserts or Iraq!)
But your family needs a better protection. Could I recommend you put aside for a short the sales figures for reverse osmosis home systems, and consider other filter systems? Based on good science and improved with new technologies, these alternative systems work well. Very well. I've personally used them. Do yourself a favor and find out what a good home water purification looks like, at my web site.
Len McGrane writes about home water purifiers and pure drinking water from his web site, www.pure-drinkingwater.com [http://www.pure-drinkingwater.com] where he gives advice and helps visitors with home water purifier systems [http://www.pure-drinkingwater.com].
