The Truth Surrounding Your Water Filtrration System

So called experts in the water field have been arguing that the purchase of a water filtration system is an unnecessary expenditure. They say that bottled water is just as cheap and more convenient. If you were to ask for my opinion of these "experts" railing against water filtration, I would probably tell you that it was my belief that these people had received endorsement payment somewhere down the line.

The truth is that the majority of the bottled water sold is nothing more than the same tap water that you drink run through a water filtration system that performs much in the same way as the one which they told you it was unnecessary to buy. Just about the only bottler that I can think I can think of that actually draws from a spring is the maker of Perrier.

Even though it is drawn from a natural spring, a water filtration process is still a needed step in order to purify the Perrier for drinking. It doesn’t just rise from the ground clean and pure as the ad campaigns would lead you to believe. There are at the very least environmental contaminates within every natural water source.

If you were to purchase a water filtration system I am sure that you would get one that protected you from every type of contaminant possible (of which there are many, I’m afraid). Why would you knowingly allow anything potentially harmful to enter your body or for that matter the bodies of your children. That would be insane.

Another thing that the bottlers don’t want you to know is that the regulations that they have to follow are probably not quite as stringent as yours. You what they are allowed to claim as pure is determined by a different set of standards than they would like you to believe. Industry standards ‘allow’ for certain percentages of contaminants in their water.

They can still advertise as clean and pure though. Heck, even the self proclaimed "Champagne of waters" is not beneath allowing a few things to slip through the cracks. Large scale water filtration is not perfect, although it should protect you as much if not more than smaller scale home systems. Let me tell you a little story.

A few years back, a treatment facility worker with an affinity for Perrier, decided to test his favorite beverage just for fun. H e was convinced that as good as this product was that they were surely using a water filtration system of the highest caliber. When the results came in the man was shocked to find that the level of benzene in his water was far above allowable standards.

Benzene is a synthetic used in the production of plastics. If ingested in quantity it will kill you, but if taken in over a period of time in low doses it could cause you cancer. Test after test turned up the same results, the water was contaminated.

The moral to this story is easy; you can’t depend on others to provide you with a healthy water. You can only depend on yourself. Forget their false statements made strictly for their own gain, and buy a top quality water filtration system of your own today.