How to Purify Tap Water - It's Not What You Think

There are no two ways about it. If you want to ensure your and your family’s health, you have to know how to purify tap water. The water that we get in our homes is loaded with so many chemicals, it’s actually scary.

Why and how to purify tap water?
It’s a known fact that the industrial waste being dumped into our river waters makes them unfit for human consumption. Our municipals add chlorine and other chemicals into it to kill the bacteria and also filter the water to cleanse it.

While this does improve the condition of the water, this is still not good enough to be ingested by us. These basic filtration techniques are not able to remove the heavy metals and pharmaceutical drugs present in the water. Nor are the cysts of dangerous bacteria and protozoa filtered out by them. Even the chlorine added in to kill the microbes can cause health problems.

The Solution
The answer obviously lies in installing a water filter in our homes. This is the only way to make sure the water we drink is really pure and safe.

The question is: what kind of filter to use?

Reverse Osmosis have been really popular recently as a home water filtration system. They work by forcing the water through a semi permeable membrane, which filters out any substance whose size is bigger than the pores of the membrane.

While this is good enough to remove the normal dirt and impurities, this technique is not effective at removing the dissolved chemicals and drugs in the water – for the simple reason that their molecular size is smaller than that of the membrane pores.

Even worse, these systems strip out the natural minerals found in the water – like calcium and magnesium. Drinking this de-mineralized water is really not recommended and can lead to mineral deficiencies in the body.

Some new RO systems have tried to get around it by adding one more unit to the already bulky filter. This unit is supposed to add minerals to the water and is touted as a unique feature of the filter. To me, however, is just doesn’t make any sense to first remove the minerals from the water, and then later to add them from a separate unit and that too at an added cost!

You would be much better off by using a multi stage water purifier. One using the combined power of carbon filtration and ion exchange techniques. Not only do they strip out all kinds of contaminants from the water, but keep its essential minerals intact too.

Now that you know how to purify tap water, do some research and make the right choice for your health.