How Can Countertop Reverse Osmosis Systems Harm My Health?
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If the truth be told, any home filtration system is better than none, but a countertop reverse osmosis one can lull you into a false sense of security, thinking you are getting healthy water when in fact, you’re not.
These countertop reverse osmosis systems were never designed for humans to use but for the print and paper industries than needed demineralized water, which is stripped of the essential trace minerals like calcium and magnesium.
Even the world Health Organization recommends we drink water with all the minerals in. Otherwise it could cause a mineral deficiency in us which can store up health problems for the future.
In addition to removing what we need, they let through many of today’s synthetic chemicals like pesticides and prescription drugs as they are molecularly smaller than water, leaving you open to infection.
Many sellers of these systems then suggest a carbon filter to remove them, so what is the point of the first reverse osmosis step then!
With today’s cutting edge technology there are far cheaper, far more effective ways to protect yourself from the thousands of toxins in our supplies, with activated carbon block filters being the very best.
The countertop reverse osmosis types cannot get close to what a carbon block filter can achieve, especially if it has a multi-stage process and ion exchange as these can remove virtually all the contaminants present, leaving only safe and healthy water with the minerals left in.
These are also the only type the US EPA recommends today.
In our polluted world we need the very best level of protection and carbon block filtration is the easiest, most effective and most economical way to have safe, healthy water for you and your family.
With the risk so great and the solution so simple, why take the chance?
With the introduction of chloramine to disinfect many supplies by the municipals, you can expect higher levels of lead in the water as chloramine leaches it from the pipes and fittings, even brass ones and at the moment over 1 in 5 Americans have their water treated this way.
So my advice is to avoid the countertop reverse osmosis systems in favor of the cheaper and far more effective alternatives to safeguard the health of your family.
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I personally would not use any kind of filtration with chloraminated water. Here’s my filtration story. I tried with a very expensive cold water filter that attached to my kitchen sink faucet that used lots of carbon that the water goes through first, very slowly, and then a reverse osmosis membrane (RO), which is supposed to remove the ammonia part of the chloramine molecule. The company I bought it from (for $355) claimed it removed chloramine, that its carbon filters would last a family of 4 for a year and the RO would last a family of 4 3-5 years. The filter replacement was going to be $200 for the 3 carbon filters and the RO. This is the kind of filter device the general manager of my water district recommended as the only kind of filter that would remove chloramine. He explained that the RO (which wasted about 3x more water than it filtered, making my water bill soar) is the only thing that will remove ammonia from the water.
I live alone and it failed after 10 months.
The way I found out it was failing was getting a chronic stomach ache that lasted 2 weeks before it dawned on me that maybe the cause of it was something in the filtered water that the filter was no longer keeping out. Sure enough, using the particle counter that came with it, it showed, for the first time that it was removing 89% of the particles, not 100% like it had read previously. I immediately stopped using it and immediately my stomach ache ceased.
Which leads me to this. Chloramine is a seriously inferior disinfectant to chlorine. The World Health Organization (WHO), says that chloramine is about 2,000 and 100,000 times less effective than chlorine at the inactivation of e.Coli and rota viruses, respectively (W.H.O. Guidelines for Drinking Water Quality Vol.2, 1996, Chapter 16). This is but one quote from very legit sources about chloramine’s inability to disinfect well. Chloramine is at the bottom of the EPA’s list of acceptable municipal disinfectants (of how well they work) due to being such a poor disinfectant. As a result, chloramine is never to be used as a primary disinfectant, but only after a more effective disinfectant, like chlorine or UV light, is applied first, can it be then used in the pipeline distribution system.
I’ll probably never know what caused my chronic stomach ache, whether it was a chemical irritation from the chloramine itself (320 people have reported to my citizens group of health effcts they’ve experienced since the change to chloramine- many of the symptoms reported are digestive) or whether I was ingesting microorganisms, bacteria, and viruses that were wreaking havoc on my stomach due to there being large colonies of them living in the filter media because chloramine wasn’t killing them the way chlorine would have.