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What You Need To Know About Contaminants In Your Water
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by Jo Lynn, Staff Writer
Water purification is an important issue today, as people are discovering more and more about contaminants in the water. In actuality, most communities in America have cleaner drinking water than ever before. But that doesn’t mean it can’t be improved upon with a home water purification system.
All water contains some impurities. Water flows through rivers and streams, sits in lakes, and filters through layers of rock, soil and the other items found on the ground. As precipitation, water falls through the sky, picking up the impurities from the air, too. Water purification isn’t a process of removing all contaminants, but of removing harmful substances and reducing others to miniscule levels that are safe for human consumption.
Substances that can be found in water include minerals eroded from rock formations, organic and inorganic chemicals, bacteria, viruses and other living microorganisms. Unsafe levels of chemicals such as arsenic, barium, chromium, copper, lead, and mercury occur in our water systems from corrosion of household plumbing systems and as discharge from factories. If your water is not purified, these chemicals can cause many physical side effects such as liver and kidney damage, gastrointestinal distress, skin rashes, increased blood pressure and more.
Organic chemicals must also be removed through water purification. These chemicals generally enter our water system as discharge from agricultural or chemical factories, as runoff herbicides and pesticides used in the environment. Side effects include increased risks of cancer, liver and kidney damage and more.
Water purification can eliminate most contaminants from your drinking water, protecting you and your family from the potential harmful side effects of undesirable impurities found in the water supply. While the EPA assures that most of this is removed, an in home water purification system can give you peace of mind.
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