Home Water Filtration or Bottled Water?
A new breed of home water filtration systems which use a process called Reverse Osmosis is set to revolutionise our drinking water; casting doubt over the future of the bottled water market. Following many years of research, the natural process of Reverse Osmsois has been developed to produce exceptionally high quality drinking water, and is capable of removing more than 90% of the impurities present in our water supply.
(PRWEB) October 1, 2005
Drink at least eight glasses of water daily, weÂ’re told, more, if youÂ’re particularly active.
On face value, this is sound advice; our bodies are more than two thirds water and on average we lose around two litres every day, making sufficient water consumption essential for good health.
Just a 2% reduction in our water intake can induce the early signs of dehydration such as fatigue, headaches and the inability to concentrate on simple tasks. Beyond this, dehydration affects digestion, metabolism and immunity until almost every bodily process is encumbered.
But it needs to be pure water, not just fluid; as two litres of anything else just doesnÂ’t measure up.
Tea and coffee for example, are laden with caffeine which is known to trigger dehydration, whereas the acidity of fizzy drinks causes mineral depletion in the body. In contrast, certain sports drinks can contain dangerously high mineral levels if consumed regularly.
Trendy bottled waters canÂ’t be ignored, but with such a vast and competitive market the actual content of these products is questionable. There are also reports of some bottled waters absorbing contaminants from their synthetic packaging.
So itÂ’s pure, clean drinking water we require, and plenty of it.
Currently, there is scant guarantee from water suppliers that our tap water is anything more than ‘safe’ to drink according to government regulations, and not one will endorse its prolonged consumption. However, modern developments in water filtration technology can dispel such concern. To explore the latest advances in Reverse Osmosis water filters visit http://www. organicwater. co. uk (http://www. organicwater. co. uk) and view their current range.
The process of Reverse Osmosis has been known for many years and is present in nature as a means of deriving clean drinking water from the sea (a method exploited by some seabirds), only recently though, has its full potential become apparent.
The law of osmosis states that when two aqueous solutions are separated by a semi-permeable membrane, water will pass through the membrane in the direction of the more concentrated solution.
By applying pressure to the more concentrated solution Reverse Osmosis overcomes this action and extracts pure water by filtering-out impurities.
Unlike many water filters that only remove chlorine and certain pesticides, filter systems using Reverse Osmosis can reject over 90% of the dissolved solids in our tap water, including fluorine compounds, nitrates, trihalomethanes, hormones and harmful metal salts of lead, mercury and cadmium.
Such is the reliability of this procedure, it is now possible for water filtration systems utilising Reverse Osmosis to be installed inexpensively in both commercial and domestic properties; bringing pure, clean drinking water to us all.
Please visit http://organicwater. co. uk (http://organicwater. co. uk) for more information on affordable water filtration systems.
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