Reverse osmosis water purifiers are one choice for homes and public facilities.
A reverse osmosis sysem may not be the best choice for your family.
Here you can read about the disadvantages.
As I am not a company representative, I cannot cover the advantages, but sometimes you may want a different viewpoint.
Making a decision to purify your tap water often comes after much deliberation.
We want the best for our family, in all areas.
Price is sometimes not a factor.
So, when a company offers to sell you reverse osmosis water purifiers for $10,000, you may think that is reasonable.
After all, if it protects your family from the many contaminants that plague our society, then it's worth any price.
The problem is that a reverse osmosis system may not protect your family's health.
In addition, you may be able to get a more effective system for far less.
It all depends on what is flowing out of your tap.
Reverse osmosis water purifiers are only one step in a complete purification process.
Facilities that use it, also use several sediment filters, an activated carbon filter to remove those chemicals not removed by the reverse osmosis system, a ultra-violet lamp to remove microbes that pass through the membrane and then chlorine is typically added to prevent algae growth and bacterial contamination in the pipes.
People who live in rural areas, far away from the city's pipes can use reverse osmosis water purifiers to clean river or ocean waters, but additional steps must also be used.
Some companies that make the reverse osmosis system for home purification have added some of those additional steps, such as carbon filtration.
The thing to remember is that if you are serviced by a public treatment facility, you do not need reverse osmosis water purifiers.
It would be redundant, because the facilities use that step.
Most people with wells and springs do not need them, because the contaminants in their supplies cannot be removed by them.
You need testing to be sure, but usually there are better options.
So, in the majority of homes around the world the reverse osmosis system step is unnecessary and impractical.
Unnecessary because it does not address the problems that we face.
It is impractical because of waste, cost and energy used.
The problems that most of us have are those trace contaminants that cannot be removed by the treatment facilities, chemicals added for disinfection and other contaminants that get in because of the pipes through which it flows.
Pesticides, herbicides, prescription and over the counter drugs, hormones, chlorine, chlorine by-products, cysts and the toxic metal lead are the problems that we have to deal with.
Because, even though they may be present in very low levels, the long term health effects of consuming those small amounts on a daily basis are unknown.
Those traces are not removed by reverse osmosis water purifiers.
Other less expensive and less wasteful systems will protect you from those threats.
Shop around and make the right choice for your family.