Is a water purifier a good choice today for you and your family? To answer that question you need to ask yourself, is your drinking water supply safe?
Whether you get a glass of drinking water or you take a shower, you expect that water to be safe, but again, is it?
Your water may contain many impurities both man made and natural that can range from many different chemicals to all sorts of different bacterias. Most of these kinds of impurities are not harmful. Though these impurities aren't harmful to us many can cause bathroom fixtures to rust and corrode and stain our laundry.
The government has set minimum standards for safe drinking water however these are the minimum standards and no one really knows the long term effects of many of the things that are allowed in our water. Setting drinking water standards is not an easy process and there are sill many unknowns about the quality of our water.
There are two basic kinds of water quality standards. They are Primary and Secondary standards. Primary standards deal with the actual cleanliness of the water and whether or not it is healthy to drink and Secondary standards deal with the appearance and smell of the water.
It might interest you to know that even though the EPA has set these standards, in 1997 the EPA was happy to state that 88% of the towns served by public water systems were reported to have no violations. However, that means that 12% of the water systems in the country did have water standards violations.
What if you were in that 12%?
(You can check your water quality here on the EPA website)
You wouldn't know until someone told you, if they told you. And by then you could have consumed quite a lot of substandard water. It is also interesting to note that one of the main chemicals used to disinfect water, chlorine, also adds to the contamination.
The really only safe thing to do today is take charge and do one better than the standard by either buying bottled water on a regular basis, which is expensive, or by getting a water purifier for your home.
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