Solar Water Purifier

Solar Water Purifier

I agree that selecting the best water purifier from the hub of numerous water treatment systems available today is not easy. It definitely will need some research to actually understand the shortcomings and advantages of a particular purifier. While doing this research, you would do well to avoid these three most common mistakes which many people make while choosing a purifier for their home.

Here are the top 3 mistakes which people make while selecting water treatment systems:

1. Many people simply go by the brand name.

Now that there are numerous water treatment systems available, many people prefer a shorter way out where they end up selecting the most popular brand. While this is an easy way out, but the problem here is that the popularity of the brand is not the right criteria to go by. A popular product does not necessarily mean a quality product; it can be a simple advertising effect as well.

Consider Everpure water purifiers for instance. They are a brand name. But they are not effective against toxic derivatives of Chlorine like Chloroform and TTHMs (Total Trihalomethanes). Moreover you end up paying $300-$400 for something that you can get at less than half a price.

2. Many people do not do ample research to find out hidden shortcomings of the purifier that they select.

The most important thing to consider in a purifier is the filtration technique on which it is based. Many people do not realize the need of doing so and they select a system without completely understanding how it works. This information is essentially required to find out the hidden shortcomings of the product.

Consider a purifier based on Reverse Osmosis. They work by employing a thin semi permeable porous membrane through which water is made to pass. Water being smaller in size passes through this membrane while contaminants being larger in molecular size are left behind and hence separated from water.

Knowing this, you can clearly see that this mechanism is not fool proof. What about the contaminants like Chlorine and pharmaceutical drugs having smaller molecular size? They too will pass along with water and hence will not be removed from it.

Moreover, there are minerals present in natural water which are essential for our health. They being larger in size are unnecessarily stripped off from water while they are very much required by our body. Consumption of this water leads to mineral deficiencies and various ailments caused due to it.

All these shortcomings can be easily found once you do some research to find out about the filtration mechanism used in the product you select.

3. Many people prefer buying a purifier which is available at a low cost.

While everyone would want to buy a reasonably priced purifier, the thing that is more important than the one time cost is its maintenance cost.

Talking about RO purifiers again, they are available at a low price. But they waste a lot of water - typically 4-5 gallons of water for producing 1 gallon of clean water. This shoots up the electricity bill and makes these purifiers costly to maintain.

In contrast there are many multi stage water treatment systems available which are reasonably priced and are economical to maintain too - costing you less than 10 cents per gallon. They are based on advanced filtration mechanism involving carbon filtration, sub micron filtration and ion exchange which makes them capable to remove all types of contaminants while retaining the essential minerals in water.

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Daniel Woods is a dedicated advocate and researcher of the benefits of safe, clean, healthy filtered water. If you want to know how to choose a water purifier, visit - http://www.waterpurifierhome.com and learn about the products our editors personally use and recommend.