| There are many benefits to our health when we | | | | were told not to depend on home filtering devices as |
| install a faucet water filter. Despite this we may be | | | | most of these will not give the required level of |
| hesitant about installing one. Why might that be so? | | | | protection from micro-organisms. The reason for this |
| Is it because we consider the water coming through | | | | is that these organisms can cause serious |
| our faucet to be completely safe to drink? This is | | | | gastrointestinal illnesses. |
| not what is revealed by a steady stream of reports | | | | The term "most" indicates or points to the availability |
| in the news and from various organizations | | | | of water filters that do remove this threat to our |
| committed to maintaining the provision of safe | | | | health. What should we look out for in a faucet |
| drinking water. | | | | water filter to make sure it can do this? To answer |
| We may also have heard that they do not do the | | | | this we need to find out what may be in |
| job as well as claimed. | | | | contaminated water that can make us ill in this way. |
| We live in a world of freedom of information, which | | | | Chlorine resistant parasites which include cysts are |
| in some ways has led to our being subjected to | | | | one of the main causes. These can end up in our |
| information overload. Green policies, education | | | | small intestine. They get there in the form of |
| strategies and most definitely the many different | | | | minuscule or microscopic eggs that hatch, and even |
| health issues that have become part and parcel of | | | | when only a few, can multiply into their millions. Many |
| our daily intake of vital 'need to know' data. | | | | of these complete their life cycle within the intestine |
| According to those who publish it, that is. | | | | before again forming into resistant cysts. |
| Somewhere in amongst this plethora of helpful advise | | | | The combined use of carbon filtration, ion exchange |
| is what is important. I am going to illustrate this with | | | | and sub micron filtration, filters out cysts. So look out |
| a recent news report that warned people to boil their | | | | for the clear statement in a manufacturers |
| water to avoid being made ill by their tap water. | | | | specifications that their system has this capability. |
| A precautionary boil water advisory had been issued | | | | Whether we are faced either with a boil water |
| by West Virginia American Water because a power | | | | advisory or with special alerts from water suppliers, |
| failure had caused the local water tank to drain off | | | | we are wise to heed them. Added to this it is well |
| so there was concern that the water could be | | | | worthwhile sourcing a quality home water filtration |
| contaminated. We should always heed these | | | | system that protects us from all the threats of |
| warnings. | | | | contaminants found in our water supply. |
| Included in a news report advertising this warning, we | | | | We all deserve healthy good tasting drinking water. |