A Reverse Osmosis Faucet - How it Works and Why it is Alarmingly Unsafe For Your Family

A reverse osmosis faucet produces some of the clearest water you'll ever drink. True. But that same water may in fact be some of the most unhealthy water that will ever wet your lips.

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Let me explain.

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On one hand a reverse osmosis faucet will give your home a steady stream of water that looks clean and pure. And since you installed this special faucet, you'll know this water is coming from a remarkably complex water purifier with some impressive science inside it.

But the very science and complexity of the reverse osmosis faucet is what let it down. Because the fact is that this system of making water fit to drink is actually bad for your health.

You can understand this immediately when you see how reverse osmosis works. With this process unhealthy water is pushed under pressure through an extremely fine mess or membrane. And this has been used very successfully in the Middle East on large commercial desert farms where salt water was readily available and only low quality water was needed for the drops. And in submarines, where sailors would not be drinking reverse osmosis water for very long stretches at a time.

But as the water is forced through the membrane and then goes in to your reverse osmosis faucet, two things happen.

One, a lot of water is wasted. The reverse osmosis system is probably the most wasteful method of treating water, with three times as much untreated water being poured back into the environment as treated water flows to the faucet.

And two, healthy minerals are removed by the reverse osmosis faucet. The membrane filter system is so fine it takes out things like calcium and magnesium that your body absolutely must have to function properly. These healthy minerals are dissolved by ground water deep under the earth, and slowly come to the surface where they collect in the water we drink. The very process that the reverse osmosis faucet depends on strips out these minerals. You will never get them in your water as long as you drink only from that faucet.

Then there is another problem with a reverse osmosis faucet: it depends on a fine membrane to filter out impurities, but will let through the molecules of water. What if contaminants have a smaller molecular size than water? They will pass through! And because many harmful chemicals and pharmaceuticals are smaller than water, they will go into your family drinking glasses if they are present in your water supply. They can't be stopped by reverse osmosis.

So what you need to do at your faucet is install a system of filters which will let the healthy minerals through and block the chemicals and contaminants that a simple physical membrane will let through. There are systems out there which will do this, and you can find them by searching on the Internet. Actually, you may like to start that search at my own site, which has a lot of free, helpful information that visitors fine useful. Click there now and start to look for alternatives to a reverse osmosis faucet.

A Reverse Osmosis Faucet - How it Works and Why it is Alarmingly Unsafe For Your Family

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