Why you should stay away from residential reverse osmosis systems
In response to the growing demand for home water filtration systems, a lot of people have chosen to buy and install residential reverse osmosis systems.
After studying the pros and cons of these residential reverse osmosis systems, I came to the conclusion that I should advise against them. Below, I will give you the three top reasons to support my decision. I rank them in terms of importance, the first being the least important.
Reason #1: They take a long time to process water. This downside is directly related with the way they operate: High pressure water is forced through a membrane with very small pores in it, so that water, which consists of relatively small molecules, gets to be separated from pollutants which in contrast tend to have large molecules. Water passes through to the other side of this membrane, while the rest is accumulated before it. As you realize, due to the minute size of the membrane pores, it takes a long time for water to pass through.
To give you some figures, two to three hours is a typical length of time to produce just one gallon of pure water. It is therefore required during the installation of residential reverse osmosis systems to cater for a storage tank, big enough to hold up to 5 gallons of water.
Therefore, when you buy a reverse osmosis system you should always have in mind that you need the extra available space needed for the storage tank. Also, you should estimate beforehand the maximum demand of running water that you will nedd at your home on an everyday basis, so as to make sure that the system you will install will be able to meet that demand.
Reason #2: What's more, residential reverse osmosis systems are generally low performers, as they typically produce only 1 gallon of pure water every 3 up to 10 gallons of tap water. In other words, their efficiency can reach at its best only 33%. The water that is wasted on the input side, is just drained away.
Because of this, you realize that your cost of ownership of the system will increase, as you water bill will go up due to higher water consumption. As this is not enough, you will also have to make an extra provision for the water drainage set up.
Reason #3: And here comes the most important reason which, even if the first two not existed, this alone should be enough to prevent you from purchasing residential reverse osmosis systems. As I already mentioned, operation of this system is based on the difference in the molecular size of water on the one hand and a wide range of pollutants on the other. Now, unfortunately, together with these pollutants the system discards essential minerals that water contains. These are calcium, potassium and magnesium to name a few.
Let me say that you can very easily tell when water lacks minerals, or it is demineralized as the exact term goes. It tastes funny, or better yet, it doesn't taste at all! It is flat.
But, being tasteless is not the only downside of demineralized water. Scientists agree that if you drink water that is deficient of essential minerals, then you are putting your health in serious danger. Following a thorough and long running study that they conducted, the World Health Organization published in their conclusions that it is imperative that drinking water should contain minimum levels of certain minerals.
Having said all the above about reverse osmosis systems, my advice to you is that you should consider investigating water multi filtration technology instead. To find relevant information and see what I use, visit my website. - 17269
After studying the pros and cons of these residential reverse osmosis systems, I came to the conclusion that I should advise against them. Below, I will give you the three top reasons to support my decision. I rank them in terms of importance, the first being the least important.
Reason #1: They take a long time to process water. This downside is directly related with the way they operate: High pressure water is forced through a membrane with very small pores in it, so that water, which consists of relatively small molecules, gets to be separated from pollutants which in contrast tend to have large molecules. Water passes through to the other side of this membrane, while the rest is accumulated before it. As you realize, due to the minute size of the membrane pores, it takes a long time for water to pass through.
To give you some figures, two to three hours is a typical length of time to produce just one gallon of pure water. It is therefore required during the installation of residential reverse osmosis systems to cater for a storage tank, big enough to hold up to 5 gallons of water.
Therefore, when you buy a reverse osmosis system you should always have in mind that you need the extra available space needed for the storage tank. Also, you should estimate beforehand the maximum demand of running water that you will nedd at your home on an everyday basis, so as to make sure that the system you will install will be able to meet that demand.
Reason #2: What's more, residential reverse osmosis systems are generally low performers, as they typically produce only 1 gallon of pure water every 3 up to 10 gallons of tap water. In other words, their efficiency can reach at its best only 33%. The water that is wasted on the input side, is just drained away.
Because of this, you realize that your cost of ownership of the system will increase, as you water bill will go up due to higher water consumption. As this is not enough, you will also have to make an extra provision for the water drainage set up.
Reason #3: And here comes the most important reason which, even if the first two not existed, this alone should be enough to prevent you from purchasing residential reverse osmosis systems. As I already mentioned, operation of this system is based on the difference in the molecular size of water on the one hand and a wide range of pollutants on the other. Now, unfortunately, together with these pollutants the system discards essential minerals that water contains. These are calcium, potassium and magnesium to name a few.
Let me say that you can very easily tell when water lacks minerals, or it is demineralized as the exact term goes. It tastes funny, or better yet, it doesn't taste at all! It is flat.
But, being tasteless is not the only downside of demineralized water. Scientists agree that if you drink water that is deficient of essential minerals, then you are putting your health in serious danger. Following a thorough and long running study that they conducted, the World Health Organization published in their conclusions that it is imperative that drinking water should contain minimum levels of certain minerals.
Having said all the above about reverse osmosis systems, my advice to you is that you should consider investigating water multi filtration technology instead. To find relevant information and see what I use, visit my website. - 17269
About the Author:
Nicos Stylianou is a passionate advocate of issues relating to healthy nutrition. To find information and what he recommends you should do to have healthy, pure water at your home, visit his website now.
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