Water, the substance we depend on for survival; odorless, colorless and base yet fundamental to the survival of all life. It will dissolve nearly all things it comes in palpate with and carry that substance with it. Knowing that our water supply is safe is important; and knowing potential problems with the water arrival into our home and how to make it safer is equally important.
There are a amount of potential problems that can occur along the way with water that comes into our homes; among them, high levels of calcium, minerals and sediment, otherwise known as hardness. Hard water can admittedly be damaging to your home’s plumbing and appliances. For many years people have been turning to softeners, also known as conditioners, that use salt to neutralize minerals causing water to be “hard.”
When home owners are on municipal sewage systems the salt brine from softeners or conditioners backwashes into the system. Sodium makes its way into the nation’s waterways. Those same waterways ultimately come to be the water supply to other homes added down the stream. In areas where softeners are often used, large amounts of sodium have come to be quite a challenge! Municipal water departments are unable to bear the expense of reverse osmosis systems in order to remove the sodium, so they have no option but to allow it on straight through to their customers. In some cities, sodium from water softeners has come to be such a challenge they have banned the use of salt brine conditioners altogether.
Beyond the challenges of sodium in the system, softeners/conditioners do nothing to address the larger problems of contamination. Cysts, chemicals and disinfection byproducts, pharmaceuticals and other carcinogens numbering in the hundreds are in the collective and well water supplies. Conditioned water may help your plumbing, but it does admittedly nothing to address the real dangers to you health posed by these contaminants.
Some softener companies are going door to door or doing telephone solicitation to get into your home to sell their salt brine systems. They are promoting these systems as if they are home filtration systems. Unfortunately, their demo is pretty impressive and so are their claims. The price tag is pretty impressive too. That is, if “impressive” means up to $8800.00! That’s a lot of dough to make your pipes happy!
There is a new, state-of-the-art alternative that provides not only the ultimate in water softening, but the ultimate in purification as well. It’s called Nano-filtration.
Nano-filtration is a system that combines the best of available technologies. It does not waste two-thirds of the water arrival into the system as reverse osmosis does. And it does not add salt as conditioners do. Nano-filtration works with an advanced hollow carbon technology that is far classic to old fashioned carbon block or activated carbons. Then it military the water straight through a membrane to remove all things down to .0001 microns! What does that mean to you? It means all things that could possibly be harmful to your health or your home is not getting straight through – even if your water source is an untreated lake or stream . Viruses, bacteria, fluoride, arsenic, lead, copper, trace pharmaceuticals, endocrine disrupting chemicals, hormones – all things you hear about in the news that makes you cringe to think about drinking and bathing in is no longer getting to you or your children. It means true peace of mind.
Nano-Filtration systems are not inexpensive – that is, unless you assess them to the hugely high-priced softening systems. By comparison, they cost thousands of dollars less and give you far more protection for your money! Nano-Filtration is the solution that is truly “Good for You and mother Earth Too!”
healthy Living – Water Softener Or Water Filter?
healthy Living – Water Softener Or Water Filter?