Reverse Osmosis Water Filter Systems for Your Home

A new concern today that some water filter systems have not addressed is chloramines, a by-product of 9/11 when authorities began calling for more chlorine in water supplies to counter bio-terrorism. This additive is fast becoming a super-toxin threat in our water. Created by the combination of chlorine and ammonia, this powerful compound being added to most municipal water supplies is not only a serious threat to our health, but if not filtered out using a reverse osmosis water filter system prior to reaching interior plumbing, could cause an unrivaled corrosive capacity that homeowners have not had to contend with before.

Reverse Osmosis Water Filter Systems use pressurization through Reverse Osmosis membranes in home and commercial water filter systems to produce filtered water as essentially pure as distilled water. Reverse Osmosis filter systems provide the purest drinking water and the safest non-mineralized water for use in machinery and household and kitchen appliances. Reverse osmosis water filter systems can lengthen the life of kitchen appliances by filtering out chemicals that can clog or corrode met and plastic pipes and tubing downstream from the RO system.

Filtered water leaving most municipal water supply systems still contains some dissolved particles and other substances that can enter homes and businesses if not blocked by water filter systems. This became apparent recently when the evening news carried a report that one odd tap water sample tested positive for pharmaceutical and hormone residues. This sparked similar testing and also similar results in municipal water authorities across the country. When confused municipal water executives were then questioned as to how something like this could possibly have happened, it turned out it was quite simple. No one even expected that such a problem could have existed in municipal water, so routine tests being done on water supplies did not include a test to determine such residues.

Chloramines can slowly destroy water pipes in the basement and walls, and metal and plastic seals and tubing in kitchen appliances from ice maker water filters to the water filters in espresso machines. The dangers chloramines present may change the entire face of water filtration technology and purification systems in the future.

High chlorine levels after 9/11 manifested in residents complaining of irritated skin, hair, and lungs. Investigations unearthed bacteria forming bioshields in piping and resisting chlorine’s purification power, and brought out the fact that chlorine in water produces carcinogenic trihalomethanes (THMs). The only answer seemed to be combining chlorine and ammonia, creating chloramines. This allowed the use of much less chlorine and lowered the levels of THMs while still provided plenty of muscle against bacteria and bioterrorism threats.

Multi-stage Reverse Osmosis systems like the Watts Pure Water Filter System can filter out such dangerous corrosives and many other water-borne chemicals from reaching the drinking water of homes and business, protecting costly appliances like coffee machines. The Watts Pure Water Filter system can include a 5-micron sediment filter to trap sand and rust, a 5-micron carbon filter to catch chlorine and other substances that can affect taste, a 5-micron carbon pre-filter to block chlorine from entering the RO system, and the RO Membrane which completely removes dissolved solids such as sodium, perchlorate, chromium, arsenic, copper, and lead. The Watts Pure Water Filter system also removes infectious cysts such as Giardia and Cryptosporidium.

A Reverse Osmosis GAC final filter is a final polishing filter used as the water leaves the storage tank on its way to the faucet. Pure Water filter systems are Reverse Osmosis filtering systems that provide pure, demineralized water to a home or business without the concern of corrosive chemicals, heavy metals, or pharmaceutical residues getting inside. Protect your home and protect yourself with the safest form of water filtration available, a Watts Reverse Osmosis Water Filter System.