Reverse Osmosis Water Filter Systems - A Shocking Truth Behind the Claims of City Water Officials

Reverse Osmosis Water Filter Systems - A Shocking Truth Behind the Claims of City Water Officials

What if I told you that reverse osmosis water filter systems are not as good as people say.

If you are like I was not so long ago, you would probably be surprised. I would have been!

After all, don't the big city water plants often use reverse osmosis water filter systems' equipment as part of their water purification process?

Well, yes. But I found out that this does not make them safe enough to pass government standards for public drinking water. (Which are a little lax, as you and I appreciate.)

You probably know there are traces of chemicals in our water. This is just an unfortunate fact of industrial life. Factories and farms put chemicals into the ground and many of these toxins and poisons find there way down into the water tables where the municipal authorities draw water for our taps.

Reverse osmosis water filter systems take that water and force it, under high pressure, through a porous barrier. The pores are small -- almost microscopic, in fact -- but most of the chemicals have smaller molecules than water, so the chemicals pass right through the barrier to the other side. In other words, these systems may remove some things, but they don't clean out all the dangerous chemicals.

The proof of this is that the city officials have to clean that so-called filtered water with chlorine to kill the chemicals the federal government requires them to remove, and the bacteria that also slip easily through the barrier.

A reverse osmosis treatment system is good enough to stop some organic impurities and some chemicals, but the water that comes out cannot be trusted to be clean.

This may be OK if you only need to treat for dirty water. These systems might be good for that part of your filtration set up.

They are undeniably useful in the Middle East, where they are used to turn sea water into reasonably clean water. And in submarines which use smaller versions of these systems to desalinate water for crews, who only have to depend on it for a short time.

But where people have to use water that has undergone reverse osmosis treatment things can go horribly wrong.

Not so long ago more than 100 people in Milwaukee died because over one weekend they drank city tap water that had been contaminated with a parasite that usually only caused stomach upsets. No reverse osmosis water filter system can stop a parasite, and neither did the chlorine the city officials had added to the water after it had passed through the barrier. So many people fell ill, and, as I said, scores of them actually died. It's almost unbelievable.

We have to look after our own water supply, and this is what has changed my thinking on reverse osmosis water filter systems.

There are many excellent alternative water treatment systems that can keep us safe. Some of them can easily be fitted into your home. So I suggest you put reverse osmosis water filter systems out of your thoughts for a while.

Do yourself a favor, and look at a couple of alternatives. Actually, I have a web site that might help you. I've put information there on pure water and a recommendation for an alternative to reverse osmosis treatment. Click there now and have read.

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