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Water Purification 101 Edition #001 April 2006 BY G. Vincent The water your family drinks is the most important component in their diets, their very health depends on it being pure. And pure water is getting harder to get. You are now responsible for the quality of your families drinking water. The maintenance of that quality water supply may very well be one of your most important jobs. Full water analysis is both time consuming and expensive, but as the importance cannot be over emphasized, it should be an essential part of your overall plan for establishing and maintaining the quality of your drinking water. Your water source may be a small or large Municipal Water Treatment Plant, a water well, spring, rainwater or other sources. It is very strong possibility that your water will be contaminated with a number of chemicals, bacteria, organisms, gas, heavy metals, and/or other harmful ingredients to numerous to name here. Some of these contaminants may be naturally occurring, some may be the result of industrial pollution and some have been put there by your City Water Treatment Plant. Your municipal water treatment facility may deem it necessary to add a variety of chemistry to maintain the quality of your water. 1.sequestering chemistry to keep the iron in your aquifer from turning your water red with oxidation. . 2. chemicals to kill bacteria, small microscopic organisms, microbes, molds. 3. Water with high acid or base may require PH adjustment. 4. Fluoride treatment for dental considerations; There are many chemicals used in water treatment, take a look at the following EPA link for more information on these chemicals and their possible impact on your water. |
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EPA Link to List of Drinking Water Contaminants As hard as utility districts try, the controls that are responsible for metering these chemicals go away from there calibration. As set point X plus or minus X enters into the equation of metered chemicals, you may be consuming these chemicals in excess of the health department limits. Or not enough to make the water safe for consumption. These chemicals are not always a good thing for the human physiology, and you the consumer are the only one who can monitor what you drink. The chemicals have there place in preparing water from a variety of sources and turning it into potable drinking water. At the point it comes to you it has been cleaned and is an excellent feedstock for the final phase of turning it into pure drinking water by ultra-filtration. Which brings us to water remediation and filtration #101 Reverse osmosis is a proven system of ultra filtration that is considered able to remove 99.9% of the harmful things from your drinking water source. This percentage may vary based on the quality of the water going into the RO System. Begin the consideration of your drinking water supply today. You may safely store your water in our tanks, they are NSF 61 approved and made of virgin linear FDA approved resins. Gene Vincent April 2006 next issue Water softeners and Why.
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