The Disadvantages Of Reverse Osmosis Water Purifiers
One of the most expensive ways to filter the water coming in to your home is by purchasing and installing a reverse osmosis water filter system. However, in this case the most expensive does not necessarily mean the best. Set out below are some of the disadvantages of reverse osmosis water purifiers.
Who Buys Them?
Although there are far cheaper and more effective water filters available on the market today, some people are still led to believe that a reverse osmosis system is the best way to filter the water to their homes.
These systems are disproportionately expensive, starting in the region of $10,000 to supply and fit, let alone the annual running and maintenance costs. When there are systems a tenth of the price that will do a better job and have vastly reduced maintenance costs, how are people still persuaded to buy them? The answer lies in the big marketing bucks available to push this outdated product. These units cost a lot to purchase and install, making profits to large water companies lending their weight to them great; well worth their outlay financially to market hard.
The Waste
It is not easy for any salesman to hide the fact that gallon upon gallon of water using reverse osmosis is wasted, in order to produce just a few gallons suitable to drink.
Many using a septic system for their waste water have to upgrade to larger sizes because the tank couldn't cope with the amount of waste-water it was accumulating. For example, between 40 to 90 gallons of waste-water is produced in order to give the householder just 5 gallons of purified drinking water. This is an unnecessary and flagrant waste of a precious commodity.
Power Requirements
These systems take power to run, and given the waste water to drinkable water ratio, it is clear that they will be using electricity at a high rate. Not ideal given the increasing price of electricity, along with the higher impact on the environment.
Does Reverse Osmosis Make Water Safe To Drink?
The most important question that you should be asking when considering purchasing any water filtration system, especially when buying one that is costly and expensive to install.
There is certainly no doubt that such systems will make the water safer for one to drink than if you were to leave it untreated, but the simple answer to the question posed above is no.
This is because one of the major disadvantages of reverse osmosis systems is that it does not eradicate all the cysts or chemical contaminants that are found in water.
In fact one manufacturer freely admits as much with a warning that these units are designed only to clean up aesthetic properties and don't act as a barrier to waterborne microbiological and toxic chemicals.
Another smaller but nevertheless important of the many disadvantages of reverse osmosis filters is the removal of all the health-giving natural minerals found in water. All of these facts should point towards using a less expensive and more efficient way of providing pure water for your family. - 17273
Who Buys Them?
Although there are far cheaper and more effective water filters available on the market today, some people are still led to believe that a reverse osmosis system is the best way to filter the water to their homes.
These systems are disproportionately expensive, starting in the region of $10,000 to supply and fit, let alone the annual running and maintenance costs. When there are systems a tenth of the price that will do a better job and have vastly reduced maintenance costs, how are people still persuaded to buy them? The answer lies in the big marketing bucks available to push this outdated product. These units cost a lot to purchase and install, making profits to large water companies lending their weight to them great; well worth their outlay financially to market hard.
The Waste
It is not easy for any salesman to hide the fact that gallon upon gallon of water using reverse osmosis is wasted, in order to produce just a few gallons suitable to drink.
Many using a septic system for their waste water have to upgrade to larger sizes because the tank couldn't cope with the amount of waste-water it was accumulating. For example, between 40 to 90 gallons of waste-water is produced in order to give the householder just 5 gallons of purified drinking water. This is an unnecessary and flagrant waste of a precious commodity.
Power Requirements
These systems take power to run, and given the waste water to drinkable water ratio, it is clear that they will be using electricity at a high rate. Not ideal given the increasing price of electricity, along with the higher impact on the environment.
Does Reverse Osmosis Make Water Safe To Drink?
The most important question that you should be asking when considering purchasing any water filtration system, especially when buying one that is costly and expensive to install.
There is certainly no doubt that such systems will make the water safer for one to drink than if you were to leave it untreated, but the simple answer to the question posed above is no.
This is because one of the major disadvantages of reverse osmosis systems is that it does not eradicate all the cysts or chemical contaminants that are found in water.
In fact one manufacturer freely admits as much with a warning that these units are designed only to clean up aesthetic properties and don't act as a barrier to waterborne microbiological and toxic chemicals.
Another smaller but nevertheless important of the many disadvantages of reverse osmosis filters is the removal of all the health-giving natural minerals found in water. All of these facts should point towards using a less expensive and more efficient way of providing pure water for your family. - 17273
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About the author: Tyler Waterman is a health enthusiast and chief writer for http://SafeClearWater.com. Visit his site and discover the best home water treatment system today.
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