What Use Are Drinking Water Filters?
May 26, 2008
I don’t know about you, but I’ve always taken the availability of good quality drinking water for granted. I never really thought to question the fact that the drinking water where we live was of good palatable quality. It didn’t have a strange taste and wasn’t making anyone unwell that I was aware of.
I guess we live in a pretty decent neighbourhood. It had at one time in the past been farmland. I’d never thought to look into the possibility that the groundwater might be contaminated with farming-related pollutants.
Then the bad news - the water table in our area was found to be polluted by a whole variety of pesticides and fertilizers. You’d better believe that I wanted to protect the health of my family, so I went out and purchased a drinking water filter.
I thought that drinking water filters would be complicated and difficult to set up. I thought that the way they operated must inevitably mean that they would need a science degree to understand. I was expecting this device to be about the size of a refrigerator I guess. When I saw its diminutive size I’ll admit to being blown away.
I mean, is that all there is? Was someone trying to pull a fast one here? Could something that small really improve the quality of the drinking water for my family? Drinking water filters may have some complex science behind them but could that science make them that small? Could a device that small really successfully filter out all of the nasties present in ordinary tap water?
Well, the reality is that the drinking water filters on the market today are better than I at first thought. After doing some research on this matter I discovered that as long as the proper maintenance is carried out, most drinking water filters are at least 80% effective or more.
Even coming across these facts, using just one drinking water filter didn’t really fill me with full confidence. Now, I knew that I couldn’t expect 100% success, but I still felt I could do better than 80%. What I did was come up with a double drinking water filter system. That removed about 80% of the remaining chemical pollutants in our water thus giving us about 96% overall protection.
Now, I don’t know about you, but I don’t think that’s a bad outcome. I understand that provided I make sure that the drinking water filters are maintained and changed regularly then my family are going to be protected from dangerous levels of chemical pollutants in their drinking water. Knowing this is certainly helping to give me less sleepless nights.
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