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This site is all about water, how to get pure healthy drinking water from your water source. It will tell you about what makes water dirty or contaminated, how each of these contaminants affect your health and finally how your water can be purified by using the different water purifying technologies. With this knowledge you can make an educated choice about the water filter or purifier you need for your house. Remember you can get pure drinking water, as good as or even better than bottled water, from dirty water or contaminated water by using the right water purification technology.

To select the right water purification method for your house, it is essential to know the impurities that are present in your water supply. Then chose the right water purifier which uses the right technology to remove those impurities in your water. There is no point in buying complicated and expensive water purifiers when you just need a simple, cheap and a much more reliable water purifier.

If you are getting your water supply from a government or municipal water department, you can be sure that there will not be dissolved toxic chemicals like Arsenic, in it. This is because the water departments purify the water very carefully and it is fully tested before it is pumped into the pipelines for distribution. If ever there is a problem in the public water supply, the news media will get hold of it, and being headline news, you would surely hear about it.

The worst that can happen to this water on its way in the pipeline to you is that it can pick up some dirt or bacteria from the pipeline. The danger of this water picking up any ground water on its way to you is extremely minimal, since the water in the buried pipeline is always at a higher pressure than the surrounding ground water. On the rare occasions when the water is not flowing in the pipeline, there is a chance ground water can get in, but this will be rare and the time very short. At the most it will pick up a small quantity of the ground water, which when diluted with large quantity of the pipe water, will not pose much danger, since the municipality water always contains an excess of the disinfectant Chlorine.

So with government supplied water to your house, you need not go in for expensive water purifiers like reverse osmosis or an RO system. The water coming to your house from these municipal water supplies is safe, as far as the most dangerous dissolved toxic chemicals are concerned. There may be some germs and some dirt in the water which can be removed by simple filters.

Come to think of it, if at all you get sick with some germs in the water, it can be very easily treated with some antibiotics. You are not in life threatening situation like when there is dissolved toxic chemicals like Arsenic in the water. Germs are a part of our daily lives, even the air we breathe is full of it and there is no way you can avoid it. Our bodies are great at fighting germs and most of us have a natural resistance to these bugs. It is when one lives in a sterile world of only bottled water, that they get sick at the very first instance of being forced to have food from a hotel or while on a journey, having food or duplicate bottled water at a railway station for  example. Kids on bottled water get sick while at school or at any time they have food or water from the outside. 

You will learn from this site that dissolved toxic contaminants, like Arsenic and Heavy Metals like Mercury, in water are the most dangerous to your health and the most difficult to get rid off. Municipal or Government water supplies are free from this danger of dissolved toxic chemicals in the water supply.  So to purify Municipal water, all you need is a simple filter which can filter out small particles of dirt and a UV sterilizer to kill any possible germs. An Activated carbon filter is recommended which not only improves the taste of the water,  but will also gets rid of any possible toxic chemicals, like pesticides and heavy metals, in the unlikely event of this getting into the water while in the pipeline.

So for those of you having the luxury of Municipal or Government water connections, it will be a waste of money to go in for expensive Reverse Osmosis or RO water purifiers. You need to think about RO systems if your water source is from a well or sources other than a Government or Municipal water supply. Those using well water should get their water tested periodically, even if this water has been used for generations. The reason for regular testing of well water is that there may be leakage or seepage of fertilizers, pesticides, farm waste, etc. into the water.

With the right water purifier, it is possible to have pure drinking water from any source. It will be a waste of time and money to depend on bottled water, when you can get pure drinking water by using the right water purifier. 
We hope to give you enough information in our other pages to make you well educated on all aspects of pure drinking water.