Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Is Water Treatment a High Priority?

As consumers, water is an important part of our lives. We need it for drink, food, bathe and clean everything around us from dishes to laundry to household maintenance. Many states in the U.S. are plagued with water quality problems - from the hardness in the water to legal dumping of pharmaceuticals by drug manufacturers into waterways which end up in our municipal water supplies.

What do we do as a result?
  1. We load up on bottled water for drinking - while this is inconvenient and expensive, it is also extending our petroleum dependency (manufacture and transportation) and these bottles end up in landfills, harming the environment
  2. We install whole house water softeners and probably an under sink reverse osmosis system or Brita or other filtration. Softeners just exchange one type of salt for another so the salts end up in the environment, damaging our water table. It also adds more sodium to our food intake as we use it to prepare foods. As we bathe, our pores open up and absorb the salts or other chemicals in the water exacerbating any skin conditions.
  • Water softeners also do not prevent scale buildup in water-related equipment making it less energy-efficient. For example, a 1/4" of scale build up in a water heater requires 40% electricity to heat the water. Scale buildup also encourages bacteria buildup.
Have you thought seriously about looking into other water treatment alternatives? Many in the industry advocate whole house reverse osmosis systems and no longer consider it a luxury but a necessity. Thanks to advancements in reverse osmosis technology from companies like Pure Revolution, whole house reverse osmosis is affordable and generates savings almost immediately through less use of cleaners, no more need for bottled water and in better energy efficiency. But, don't take my word for it, check out www.pureoflow.com and find out why our customers are enjoying all the benefits of taste and savings with a healthier alternative when they installed a whole house PureOFlow system powered by GE.

And, don't take water for granted ... give it the priority it needs.

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