What You Must Know About Whole House Water Treatment and Water Treatment Equipment
Published: 03/29/2010 by R. Lee Cole
I'm sure you understand the need to filter your drinking water. With all of the reports that have come out recently about all of the toxins and pollutants in our water, it's hard not to understand the need for water treatment equipment at home. Ralph Nader's group found over 2,000 carcinogens in the water they studied. And recently several reports came out about finding prescription drugs in our water supplies.
A lot of people start filtering their water by buying those filtering pitchers. They usually work by carbon or ceramic filtration. You can buy one for about $20. And, if you're doing nothing else, then this is certainly a good step to take.
But it's not much of a mental leap to go from the need to filter just your drinking water to the need to filter your cooking water, too. After all, those pesticides found in our drinking water are not going to break down and become benign just because you heated them up for a little while.
So, if you're concerned about cooking water, too, then whole house water treatment might certainly be the way to go. You can accomplish this by buying one of those counter top filters. They hook up to your faucet and filter the water as it comes out. As far as water treatment equipment, these types of water filters are relatively inexpensive (about $100), durable, and easy to use.
Unfortunately, if you're just filtering your drinking and cooking water, you're missing a big source of pollutants entering your body, which is through your skin. Your skin is an organ just as your heart or liver is. As a matter of fact, besides protecting your body, your skin's major function is to eliminate toxins. Just as your body can eliminate toxins through your skin, it can ingest toxins through your skin.
You can get just as many toxins into your skin during a hot bath or shower as you can drinking a glass of unfiltered water! Not only that, but if you have chlorinated water, the heat from the bath can vaporize certain carcinogenic chemicals in the water, which you then breathe in!
Obviously, this piecemeal approach to water filtration is not the best. What you need is whole house water treatment. You can buy a whole house water filter for slightly under $1,000. That's probably less than filtering each faucet's water. Also, you don't have as much upkeep, not to mention the expense of changing all those filters every six months. Having whole house water treatment equipment is best all around. It's cheaper, more convenient, and certainly better for your health.
