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Is Your Drinking Water Filter System Protecting Your Health

An in-home drinking water filter system is becoming more important every day. We can no longer rely on the drinking water filter system provided by public utilities to protect our health.

Those systems were designed to prevent cholera outbreaks and other immediately noticeable health issues. They rely heavily on chlorine disinfection to accomplish that task. We now know that chlorine disinfection is only effective some of the time. We also know that chlorine, itself, is a threat to our health.

A good in-home drinking water filter system will remove chlorine, but the best systems are designed to take care of all the impurities in your water, those that are thrown in by nature, the environment and us. An excellent drinking water filter system will also balance the mineral content and the pH level, leaving us with the healthiest water that can be found.

All of us have done something to contaminate the water supply. Whether by using bug sprays and weed killers or simply by using the toilet, there are many things in the water that we put there.

Some people think that drinking water straight from the tap is safe, because there are no immediate symptoms. They also think that the government would not allow treatment facilities to send us water that contains large amounts of contaminants. The truth is quite different.

Federal standards for drinking water are based on how much of a single chemical would be toxic to a 175 pound adult. Those of us who have children must invest in a better drinking water filter system. Else, we are endangering the health of our children.

Many adults do not weigh 175 pounds. Depending on your height, it could be unhealthy to weigh that much. But, unless you do, the government standards are not protecting you from a single chemical. And, over two thousand different chemicals have been found in tap water. Scientists have warned the government that two or more of these chemicals can interact and the detrimental effects would be 600 times greater than what you would see with one chemical alone.

The scientists and environmental groups want the government to require that treatment facilities install a better drinking water filter system. But, that's unlikely to happen in our lifetime. A more technologically advanced drinking water filter system would be more expensive. The cheapest choice is to add chlorine and hope for the best.

The drinking water filter system used by most facilities is not much better than the clay pot that was prevalent in India, before chemical contamination became a problem. In other countries, time has moved forward. Their drinking water might be safer.

Here in the United States, we have to face the facts. This is not something that promoters have blown out of proportion. This is the truth. Government agencies, environmentalists, researchers, scientists, reporters and health care professionals all say the same thing. Without a good drinking water filter system, our water is not safe to drink.

Our only choice is to invest in a technologically advanced drinking water filter system of our own. In-home units are reasonably priced and can do the whole job.

About the Author

Dominic Anderton is a researcher on the health benefits of purified drinking and bath water. Visit his site now at http://www.pure-and-safe-water.com/ to get the facts on how to choose the best water purification system.