What Is a Whole House Water Filter?
Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner may not be about the problems with our drinking water supplies but it does seem apt. It may be time to consider an investment in a whole house water filter system.
Recent years have seen growing concerns in the drinking water industry. It seems that there are more contaminants in out drinking water then ever before. Or if not more contaminates more information about them anyway. We now know on any given day the water from our household taps could contain things like pesticides, industrial chemicals, prescription drugs and the list continues to grow.
If the contaminants that leach into the system do not scare you perhaps some of the chemicals that are purposely added should. The government adds chlorine and fluorine to our water for us. I am not saying what is added is bad, it is needed, chlorine does stop the spread of such wonderful diseases as typhoid fever but I do not want to drink it. Do you? Fluorine was the government's way of helping us because someone somewhere said it would help reduce cavities.
Because chlorine eliminates diseases we really can not do without it in our water supplies at the moment but chlorine causes so many health problems that a whole house water filter system is really the only defense. Chlorine causes brittle hair, repertory issues, acne, as well as other harder to define feelings of yuk. Seems the thinking here is better a few nagging symptoms for some folks then a lot of dead from rampant disease.
The only real solution to the problem is a whole house water filter system. What's that? Drink bottled water! No, that is not going to work for a couple of reasons; just to start with most of the problems with chlorine is not from drinking. It seems the hot water we use for showers and dishes turns the chlorine into a gas we can breathe in. For those with breathing troubles like asthma that is a bad thing. Actually most of the problems with chlorine are skin related so just switching to bottled drinking water will not help.
Bottled water may help some with the other contaminants like pesticides but will it really? You see most bottled water is just filter tap water. Ahh but drinking bottled water as opposed to a whole house filter system has another issue most folks choose not to think about.
The billions of bottled water we drink every day are actually destroying our world. Well not single handedly but they are a big big problem. You see here in America we consume about 3 billion bottles of bottled water a day, those plastic bottle the stuff comes in can not be reused due to the chemicals inside of the bottles that make them soft, so off they go to the landfill. Recycle? Not usually! Out of all the bottles that make it to the landfill only about 5% are actually recycled the rest just hang out and clog up the world for a couple of hundred years, unless they get melted down in which case they clog up our air and yeas our water too.
The only 100% safe cost effective solution is to invest in a whole house water filter system for your family. A whole house water filter system will not only get the chlorine, fluorine and other contaminants out but if you use a refillable bottle for water and bring it from home it will soon pay for itself in savings.
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