Reverse Osmosis Filter

It is certainly a very good idea to invest in some sort of water filtration system for your home, but there are just too many disadvantages to reverse osmosis to make a system using this process a good one to go for.

The ordinary tap water piped into your home has way too many pollutants and contaminants in it to make a good long-term source of drinking water for you and your family. It is certainly a fact that a reverse osmosis water filter will get rid of a significant proportion of these health-damaging impurities. But, the problem with reverse osmosis is that it also removes health-benefiting minerals at the same time.

So how do we know that water that has had its minerals removed from it is bad for you? Well, one of the key indicators is that naturally-occurring water is generally full of minerals which strongly suggests that nature is saying that mineralised water is more conducive to healthy life than water without.

Not everyone is in total agreement that removing just about all of the mineral content from the water you drink is necessarily a bad thing. But, what is not in doubt is that you must supply your body with a comprehensive collection of minerals to maintain optimum health. Given this fact, it surely makes sense that you should be providing at least some of those minerals via the water that you drink on a daily basis.

Does reverse osmosis make water safe to drink? Unfortunately the only honest answer that can be given to this question is no. Mainly because the reverse osmosis process doesn't fully remove a lot of the synthetic chemicals that are all too common in tap water.

Are there other disadvantages to reverse osmosis? Well, because of its very strong filtering abilities, it leads to the wasting of a lot of water - because a significant volume of water is discarded along with the filtered impurities. This waste of water is not particularly good for the environment and can lead to you paying higher water bills.

There is another more minor disadvantage that you'll have to make your own mind up about in terms of how important it is to you personally. That disadvantage is that some of the external individual filters can be bulky and unsightly-looking.

More and more people are coming to the correct solution that it is a very good idea from a health benefit perspective to install some form of water filtration system. But, despite this fact, there are just too many disadvantages of reverse osmosis for this system to be your water filtration system of choice.