Reverse Osmosis Filter

When you read the advertising hype you'd think that a reverse osmosis water treatment system was a good way to make your tap water pure.

Unfortunately, nothing could be further from the truth.

I remember the first time I stumbled across the facts about reverse osmosis water treatment systems. It was a real eye-opener.

For one thing a reverse osmosis water treatment system can't remove lead or chlorine. Yet these two dangerous compounds are common in municipal water supplies.

If the pipes in your city or town are older than, say 35 years, then there is almost certainly going to be lead in some of the pipes and many of the soldered joints. That lead will be steadily dissolving into the water and gushing out of your taps. And lead can gravely affect our health. It can raise blood pressure, make it difficult for your blood to transport oxygen, heighten certain breathing problems if its in fumes, seems to affect the behavior of young children, and is linked to osteoporosis in older people as it slows down calcium absorption. In other words, it is not good to have lead in your tap water.

Chlorine is just as common, because federal water safety regulations allow municipal water authorities to pour it into community pipes as a sort of catch-all that will kill any harmful bacteria or other contaminants that the treatment plant was not able to block. Your water officials will be careful not to put too much chlorine into your tap water, but even traces are harmful.

And there's another problem. A reverse osmosis water treatment system is wasteful. For every one gallon of water that goes through, the unit produces five gallons of dirty water. That is environmental profligacy.

What's more, the membranes that do the filtering in a reverse osmosis water treatment system are easily damaged. They're delicate. You can rip them if you're not careful. And unless you buy one made to high standards you are likely to find your filter membrane has defects.

Most significantly, however, a reverse osmosis water treatment system gets rid of all the natural, healthy minerals in water.

This is bad, to the point of being dangerous because our body needs the calcium, magnesium and so on that are brought to us in the course of normal living by water. These essential minerals are dissolved, deep under the earth, and slowly come to the surface as water rises and then go into the water supplies we draw our drinking water from. As you drink good quality water you get your body's supplies of these minerals replenished. If you don't get them you fall sick.

But a reverse osmosis water treatment system blocks them. Instead of delivering healthy water these systems give you sterile water. Empty and unhealthy water. This is alright in the huge commercial desalination plants on the edge of Middle Eastern deserts where reverse osmosis water treatment technology was first developed and is widely used today. Farmers don't mind if their plants are not getting the essential trace minerals humans need. But you want water that is mineral-rich.

So use the Internet and find alternative systems that giver you healthy water, free of contaminant but full of those essential minerals you body depends on. If you need a web site to begin at, go to mine. It has useful information that will help you find effective, moderately priced home pure water technologies so you don't have to buy a reverse osmosis water treatment system.

So do some homework. Look around the Internet for alternative water purification systems designed for homes that take out contaminants before you drink them, but leave in the minerals your body must have. If you'd like a place to begin that homework, you're welcome to go to my web site. It's got lots of useful information about household filters that safer than a reverse osmosis water purification unit.