Healthy Living – Don’t Buy Bottled Water – Get a Water Filtration System!
Chlorine, chloramines, microscopic particles, pharmaceuticals, and a host of pollutants and toxins enter our homes every day through our faucets. Today it is common to see a home with under-sink water filters, drinking water filters, or a bottled water system to provide clean, safe drinking water. But even the best drinking water filters leave you unprotected in the shower, doing laundry, and even running your dishwasher. Without a whole house water filtration system, you are not protecting your family’s health from exposure to harmful unfiltered water.
Also, our air quality is affected by the lack of water filtration throughout the house. Harmful chemicals in water, such as chloramines and chlorine, can release steam into the home when the water is running and this can cause respiratory problems and trigger asthma.
Domestic water filters protect the entire house by filtering from the source; Where does the water enter the house? The water is filtered with broad spectrum filtration that protects you in the shower, your kids in the bath, your clothes in the wash, and your dishes too! Air quality is also protected, since the running water in your home will have been filtered first.
Some water facts can help you fully understand the importance of whole house filtration instead of just providing bottled water.
First, one danger comes from bisphenol A, or BPA, in plastic water bottles, which has been shown to be dangerous to humans, but is still in use. This doesn’t even include the damage to the environment from the huge amount of plastic bottles that end up in landfills.
Second, the EPA’s maximum safe chlorine level is 4.0 mg/L for an adult; however, for children they say that 3 mg/L is safe. Many treatment facilities report levels between 3.2 and 3.9 mg/L. This is barely safe for a full size adult, smaller adults and children are left unprotected and the elderly and infants and those who are sick and need extra protection are often made worse.
It is not enough to avoid drinking chlorine or chloramines. The body absorbs chemicals and pollutants that it comes into contact with, such as when bathing or showering. Additionally, the vapors are also absorbed through the skin and inhaled in showers. All the chemicals and contaminants then enter the bloodstream.
With this in mind, during an average shower, it’s a safe assumption that you may consume more chemicals and contaminants than you would by drinking it; especially if you are a child who loves to play in the bathtub for a long time. Home water filters offer you the safety in the bathtub that the best drinking water filters or bottled water system do not.
A whole house water filtration system removes chloramines, chlorine, lead, arsenic, pharmaceuticals, and other chemicals and contaminants from water. This leaves you with safe water from any tap in your home and leaves your air free of contaminants that can occur from the tap.