How To Choose Home Water Purifiers The Correct Way
Author: Derek Reeve
How do you choose home water purifiers? Based on brand? Based on price? Based on what you heard about it from your neighbors, friends, or relatives? Or based on any other factor? If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, I am sorry to say, you are completely wrong. When it comes to water purifiers, none of the things I have mentioned above matters. What matters is – the technology it is based on.
Yes, I will say it again. If you are going to buy a water filter, the only thing you should look out for is the technology it is based on. The reason is both obvious and simple. Why do you use home water purifiers? To get pure water to drink and to use for other purposes, right? If that is the case, shouldn’t you look out for the best technology that can give you pure water? Factors like brand, popularity, and price should take second place
In order to find out the best water purification technology, you need to compare home water purifiers. So, let us take a look at the three most popular technologies today – reverse osmosis, point of use distillation, and active carbon filtration.
Reverse osmosis – In this method, water is passed through a semi permeable membrane under pressure and any substance that is larger than water molecule is blocked. There are two major disadvantages with this method. One – it cannot remove any contaminant that is smaller in size than water molecules. Two – it tends to destroy the essential minerals present in water. Also, it is pretty expensive. When you compare home water purifiers, you can easily find out that there are far cheaper alternatives available in the market today.
Point of use distillation – In this method, water is passed through a very hot coil and converted into water vapor. Then it is passed through a cooling chamber and converted into water again. There are two major disadvantages with this method too. One – it is not capable of removing the organic contaminants present in water. Two – like reverse osmosis, it also tends to destroy the essential minerals present in water.
Active carbon filtration – this is actually a three in one method. It involves active carbon filtration, ion exchange, and sub micron filtration. Unlike the other two methods, this does not have any major disadvantages. It tends to remove all sorts of contaminants present in water and it retains the essential minerals that are good for the body. Most importantly, this is the cheapest of all three methods.
When you compare home water purifiers, you can easily find out that the combination of active carbon filtration, ion exchange, and sub micron filtration is the best technology by miles. This is also the reason why physicians suggest using water purifiers based on this technology.
So, you now know how to choose home water purifiers. Now, put your knowledge to good use and go get a good water purifier today. Enjoy the benefit of pure water for years to come.
Frequently Asked Questions
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QUESTION:
We have a water cooler at work and our boss wanted to cut down on expenses by cutting our water supply
She only would order when the day comes when we ran out of water and its been two days and we still do not have water?. The sink water taste rusty and none of my co-workers will drink it. Are we suppose to bring water from home????. What should I tell my boss?-
ANSWER:
It is unforunate that your boss will cut off your water supply cooler, most people would say that it is not the end of the world, however, I’m sure other expenses could be looked at more narrowly than the water supply, a happy employee is a productive employee.
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QUESTION:
does water cooling a refrigerator save energy?
I am pretty sure that a home refrigerator will run more efficiently with a more efficient condenser. Would water cooling a section of my condenser using a free, slightly lower that ambient air temp water supply save me power/money?-
ANSWER:
It depends on the size of refrigerator, but I don’t think you water cooling refregirator can use less energy than let say an A++ refrigirator.
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QUESTION:
If you put warmer water into a pool cooler (evaporative) will more water evaporate, leaving the water cooler?
I wondered if putting warmer water from the top of my pool into the cooler will enhance the cooling effect of a pool chiller or not, everything else constant. From thermo, a engine’s efficiency is related to the difference in temp between the hot and cold cycles. Does anybody have insight here? Would putting warmer water into a pool chiller evaporate more water and take more energy from the water, leaving you with an overall cooler pool. If nobody knows, I guess it will be another trip to Home Depot for plumbing supplies…-
ANSWER:
I believe that the higher efficiency you get from the greater temperature gradient will leave you with a cooler pool. Where do you get the import water from now? Thermodynamically speaking, this makes sense as you are taking water from you pool & returning it to the same “system”.
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QUESTION:
No hot water – only cool?
I have a oil furnace which supplies the hot water to my home. Recently we have been noticing that the hot water comes out luke warm to cool. It used to be hot, then cool off, then turn back to hot when the furnace would kick on. Now we get cold water through the whole house. Is it the coil in the furnace that’s shot? If so, how much are we talking to fix it??-
ANSWER:
Sounds to me that your hot water coil is done.depends on the specific furnace-and availability of parts for cost…Personally–if you have good electric-I would abandon that hot water set-up—and go with an electric water heater…This will take a lot of wear and tear off the furnace—and give you a bit of storage for hot water-rather then a basically on demand set-up.
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QUESTION:
Are there any laws against working employees in a very hot warehouse without water or cool air?
My friend has a job with a mail place stuffing envelopes in a warehouse. To save money, the boss took away everything from 401K to water. All they had left in the very hot warehouse was a swamp cooler. The problem was that he refused to let them open windows or doors to circulate the cool air (which you are supposed to do with swamp coolers). The employees were already pretty overheated and grouchy, but now that the swamp cooler broke, people are starting to get sick. My friend had to come home early from getting sick from the heat today. Are there any laws against working employees in very hot conditions and not supplying water?
Incase you were wondering, my friend took her own water to work and still got overheated.-
ANSWER:
Your friend and all the employees there should sue the boss big time for what he is doing. They should all resign too and leave him there by himself to see if he likes it. That is very selfish of him. You’ll see that when everyone leaves he will stop being selfish and will start treating his employees fairly. Yes it is against the law, and I am sure everyone will win the lawsuit. That boss it treating his employees as slaves or like if they were in the military.
He sounds just like an old man in a nursing home. I would not want to work for a guy like him.
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