Drinking Water Safety - For Home and Office

How to make tap water safe for drinking at home or the office has been the rising concern of many people today. Most people don’t like drinking tap water because of the taste, but there are more reason to rethink drinking right from your tap.

It’s impossible to have clean tap water. Water is transferred through old pipes that are decaying. Lead, heavy metal and tons of other contaminants leak into the water. The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention reports 30-40 outbreaks of waterborne diseases from viruses, bacteria and parasites in the U.S. each year, and half of those are related to drinking water.

Municipals water treatment plans use chlorine (some use chloramin, which is a combination of chlorine and ammonia)to purify water, and that can cause health problems. The Environmental Working Group did a study in 2005 and reported that there are more than 140 unregulated chemicals, including a gasoline additive MTBE. In many cases, water contaminants exceeded safety limits.

Because the rising question about tap water safety, people are turning to bottled water thinking they are supposedly cleaner than tap and they do certainly taste better, and more convenient. But there are reports showing that up to 40% of bottled water are worst than tap water. Beverage companies are not regulated by the FDA and not legally required to disclose the source of their water, so chances are many of the bottled water comes from the same source as tap water. In many cases, the consumers are paying more for a gallon of water than they are paying for gas. With the price of gasoline skyrocketing, along with the rise of everything else, it’s better to save money and stay with tap water, but clearing out all the harmful contaminants before allowing it getting into our body. A quality water purifier at your own tap is a smart investment.

The best way to make your tap water safe, at least for drinking and cooking, is to install a water filter or purifier in the kitchen. This is crucial if you have young children, are pregnant or have chronic illness that effects your immune system. Install a shower filter to filter out the chlorine is a good idea, especially if you or someone in the family has skin condition such as eczema and psoriasis, because even chlorine levels that are below the EPA limit can dry skin and worsen conditions, let alone that most city water exceeds EPA standard of safe chlorine level. Filter out the chlorine before filling your fish tank will definitely save your fish.

There are many types of water filtration system on the market. Range anywhere from $20 to a few thousands dollars. From faucet mounted, pitcher to whole house filter. Some just improve the water taste by reducing the chlorine and a few large particles, others will remove everything in the water including some beneficial mineral that our body needs. So how do you choose? Here are a few things to keep in mind when deciding on a type of filter:

• You want safe drinking water, not just taste good water, so you need to find the filter that will remove the most contaminants but not the beneficial mineral that are naturally in the water.
• Filter has its own lifespan, you need to know when to replace it or you are drinking water that are far more worst than the tap water itself, because all the contaminants got flushed out from the overdue filter.
• Fresh water always taste better and it’s better for the body because it’s full of oxygens. So freshly filter out of the tap water is better than water sitting in a pitcher or jar for a while.
• Flow rate might be something that is important to you if you are busy people.

Recently there are reports showing that pharmaceuticals - including antibiotics, anti-convulsions, mood stabilizers and sex hormones - have been found in the drinking water supply of at least 41 million Americans. So it is always good to go in for filters with maximum number of features and advantages, designed with the latest technology that help providing as best drinking water quality as possible.

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* effectively reduces lead, mercury in drinking water
* effectively reduces waterborne parasites
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