Monday, 30 March 2015

What’s in your water?

Finding nourishment in food is important, but to some degree, finding best water option can even be extremely important. Many of the water sources contain hundreds of chemicals including naturally occurring chemicals and minerals are very harmful for human body.

The presence of contamination in water can lead to adverse health effects, including gastrointestinal illness and reproductive problems. Infants, Small children, pregnant women, the elderly and people whose immune systems are compromised because of chemotherapy or transplant medications, may be susceptible to illness for some contaminants.

How is the water source unprotected?

Unprotected refers to a stream, river and all the huge water sources, Piped water into a dwelling, Yard, Public taps Or tube wells does not have water tight casing that extends to a depth of at least six meters below ground level. Unprotected water sources can easily become contaminated and unfit for drinking.

What makes water contaminated?

Water Source can become contaminated with bacteria or chemicals, such as nitrates. When the presence of bacteria is found, the water is considered to be unsafe to drink. Heavy rain, floods are some of the reasons to wear and tear for the piping underground.

Many a time’s contamination is odourless, colourless and tasteless too.

Coliform organisms are a group of bacteria commonly found in aquatic environment.  Coliform bacteria consist of disease causing bacteria, viruses and parasites could potentially be present in your water supply.

Here are the two types of contaminants. 

Suspended Impurities :- These are the physical impurities which remain suspended in water such as dust, sand, dead insects and harmful micro-organisms like bacteria, viruses and cyst. They lead to discoloration of water and may also cause diseases.

Dissolved Impurities :- These are the chemical impurities which get dissolved and mixed with water. They cannot be removed by simple filtration techniques and require advance technology for removal. These impurities include chemicals, rust, pesticides, insecticides and salts of metals like arsenic, fluoride, iron, calcium etc.

The best water purifier option for home use When considering a water storage system, you also have several methods to purify water.

Boiling

This is the most common form of purifying. Boiling kills all harmful micro-organisms. It is, however,  not able to remove dissolved impurities present in the water.

Ultraviolet (UV) filtration

Ultraviolet (UV) filtration has been in the market for many years now. This technology successfully deactivates harmful micro-organisms like bacteria and viruses, but fails to properly deactivate the more harmful ones - cysts. If the purified water from ultraviolet filtration processes is stored for a long period, then there are chances of the deactivated micro-organisms may get reactivated.

The UV filtration process should always be the last pass after the filters to ensure that bacteria do not pass through to the drinking water. When it is used in combination with other filters (sediment and carbon), it successfully removes all other suspended impurities from water including dissolved bacteria and organisms.

Reverse Osmosis Filtration (RO)

RO technology is one of the best known purification technology to the mankind. It removes all

harmful micro-organisms such as bacteria, viruses and cyst. The biggest advantage of this technology is that it is able to remove more than 99% of dissolved impurities such as chemicals, rusts, salts, pesticides and insecticides present in water. RO Purifiers are the only affordable technology to be able to remove dissolved impurities from water.

KENT - Water Purifier
Kent gives you with the best water purifiers for home use in India. And provides you with RO+UV+UF+TDS control  to ensure the overall safety and taste of drinking water.

This electronic water purifier not only removes contaminants and impurities as it retains Minerals in the processed water. All the studies and reports about minerals in drinking water have come to a conclusion that you need minerals to be healthy. Drinking water should contain minimum level of certain minerals.

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