Water Purification Equipment - Don't Take This Lightly

I know how serious this title sound! It simply make you visualize the humongous equipments there stack up high in front of you and look complicated, and I am sure you will relate to the one you have seen in Public Water Treatment Plant or in the industrial factories. Unfortunately true, the water problems have turned from bad to worst and the use of this water purification equipment is the only way to ensure the quality of water for safe consumption.

Quality of water has deteriorated to a stage where besides the usual contaminants like chlorine, heavy metals, and microorganisms, pharmaceutical drugs, industrial pollution, sewage leakage, and other man made chemicals byproducts. The pollution does not only happen on the surface but to the deep ground water as well since injection wells are one of the means industry uses to diminish the local and immediate consequences of their pollutants.It is estimated that each year, 34 billions liters of hazardous liquid waste is injected into the deep groundwater. Just imagine over a period of time, what sort of consequences will really impact and affect our health. Already, evidence suggests that groundwater supplies in Florida, Texas, Oklahoma and Ohio have been compromised by these same pollutant migrating from deep water aquifers.

Many sewage treatment facilities are old and in disrepair, they simply not able to cope with the increased populations that they serve. Falling facilities and inability to process causing spillage of raw sewage directly into a water resource. A scary estimate of 850 BILLION gallons of raw sewage entered rivers, lakes and streams. On top of that, spillage and leakage of fuels, oils and additives, especially gas is an increasing concern as fuel storage tanks leak into the ground and groundwater. It is estimated by the EPA that there are over 100,000 leaking fuel tanks in the US.

Pesticides that are being used all over the world as a means of increasing crop production by poisoning and killing insects by the trillions, also turning up in our groundwater and becoming part of our diet. Excessive use of fertilizers in boosting crop production, are less harmful, but providing high nutrient content to the water. This has negatively proliferated the growth of algae and aquatic plants, which ultimately die and decay in water, diminishes oxygen content and devoid of much life.

I don't intend to go on telling about the pollution and contaminants that get into our water, instead I will focus on water purification equipment that is effective in removing these contaminants. The public water works department has the filtration systems that are only able to separate sediments, particles and kill certain bacteria using chlorination. These are old establishment which have not been optimized or upgraded to deal with latest contaminants like industrial chemicals and pharmaceutical drugs. So, it very important for individual household to have their own water purification equipment that is able to handle these new age contaminants.

Charcoal or carbon is a common media for many water purification equipment that trap large water contaminants and stop them from passing through with the water. For other smaller harmful contaminants, it will attract contaminants (using a process of positive and negative charges similar to magnets) and encourage these contaminants to break their bond with water. Chlorine, hydrogen sulfide and heavy metals will not pass through this carbon filters. The special solid or granulate form of the carbon filter, if equipped with a copper-zinc alloy media, is proven the most effective medium in reducing chlorine, heavy metals, and microorganisms from drinking water.

A water purification equipment must not take away totally the minerals in the water, instead the selective filtration should reduce calcium and iron down to 5 microns with mechanical filtration, meaning retaining good, healthy minerals which are going to benefit our body. Unlike some filtration system use salt to phase out minerals like iron and calcium, or reverse osmosis and distillation, totally wipe out any trace of good minerals.

I have got to put this point at the end of this article and remind you not to neglect the water purification equipment at point-of-use. Most of us only install water filtration at point of entry and are not aware of chance of recontamination which happen water-borne contaminants come from the plumbing system in our house, especially lead and vinyl chloride from the piping. Another possible contamination after point of entry is the water storage tank which are hidden in most houses, which has accumulated tons of contaminants over years. Having a another water purification equipment at kitchen basin and bathrooms will help in the reduction of chlorine and other chemicals that vaporize and contaminate the indoor air.