Do You Know If You Are Providing Your Family With Pure Drinking Water?

How important is pure drinking water to us? Well, H2O makes up about 60% of our bodies and studies show that it only takes about 3-4 days to die of thirst. Pure drinking mineral water keeps us alive and is the cleanest way for us to do so.

Our doctors regularly tell us that it's important to drink eight glasses a day. But a lot of people still get theirs straight from the tap. That means they are getting germs, possibly lead and other chemicals that seep in from the pipes and tanks at the local plant. Bottled pure drinking water is a much healthier choice than using the tap, unless you have an excellent home filtration system.

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What comes from your tap starts at your local plant. Then it flows through miles and miles of pipe before it even gets to your home. There are many opportunities for microscopic cysts and other contaminant to infect it, turning what could have been a glass of pure drinking mineral water into a pool of bacteria and chemicals.

This danger is increased even more when the local source is located near a factory. Sometimes accidental seepage or even malicious dumping can contaminate the supply. There have been many law suits involving towns suing local companies for destroying their pure drinking water supply.

An alternative that is sometimes promoted is the idea of using a tap filter containing activated carbon. You just mount the filter onto the faucet and anything that comes through will be stopped before it reaches your glass. This is nice in theory, but there's no possible way one simple filter will be able to provide you with pure drinking mineral water. In reality, a system must contain numerous filters, preferably multi-media and carbon blocks, with an ion exchange to balance mineral content and pH levels.

Buying bottled pure drinking water or investing in the right home purification system is the best way to ensure that what your family is using is safe and healthy. Bottling at home saves money and helps protect the environment from extra trash.

Pure drinking mineral water companies have a process that usually goes as follows: first the H2o is taken through a filter of some type. Then a softener or ion exchange system is used. Heating to a steam follows to removes impurities and minerals, so there is a re-mineralization step. UV light kills bacteria and oxygenation does the rest.

This multistage process is similar to what you will find in the best home systems, except that re-mineralization is not necessary, as ion exchange softens, but does not remove naturally occurring minerals. Pure drinking mineral water, such as Perrier, is bottled in glass at the source. Right after purification it goes into an airtight glass bottle, not dirty pipes. But, most companies use tap water, add some minerals and some carbonation, put it in a plastic bottle and ship it to the store.

During transportation, it absorbs chemicals from the plastic, so the quality is questionable. If you know what your home filtration system can do, then you know that you are providing your family with pure drinking water, without question.

Do You Know If You Are Providing Your Family With Pure Drinking Water?

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