How Do You Choose A Home Water Purification System?
Home water purification differs greatly from the systems that are used in large scale public treatment facilities. The biggest difference is in what they are designed to accomplish and what our families need a water purifier to do. You see, water purifiers for home-use are designed to remove chemicals, egg-like microscopic creatures known as cysts and other things that either the municipal utilities cannot remove, add in themselves or that get in after it leaves the plant. You might say that water purification began in the United States in 1908. Before that time, typhoid fever killed one out of every thousand people in cities like Chicago and New York. What happened to reduce that death toll? Chlorination was introduced. Chlorine disinfection was considered a major achievement. Public health benefits far outweighed any initial criticism. It wasn’t until 1970 that scientists learned about the disadvantages and we began to see the first rudimentary home water purifier. Today, facilities
