What is Pure Drinking Water?

The answer we would most like to hear is its the water coming out of our Taps. Sadly this might not be the case. Why is this so? To answer that question we should first of all establish what pure drinking water is exactly.

Would you say its water that contains any of the following, Chlorine, Lead, Cysts, VOC's, Insecticides, Herbicides, TCE short for Trichloroethylene which is an industrial solvent, THM's meaning disinfection by products, MTBE a chemical used in Gasoline and lastly Bensene?

Before we answer that question lets take a brief look at Cyst's.

These get into the water through their hosts waste. They are the egg like shell stage of parasites and they are infectious so once in the intestines and out of their shells they infect the host human or animal. Diarrhea and sickness are one of the unpleasant symptoms.

Any water contaminated with these little tyrants is not pure water. Which is also true of water that has been polluted by any of the other things on the list in the question above such as Bensene.

Bensene is a Volatile Organic Chemical (VOC) which is used to make nylon, polyester rubber and plastics, also solvents that are used in processes such as dry cleaning and printing. Studies have shown that prolonged exposure to this substance can cause forms of cancer.

So how can these get into the water supply? By means of factory discharges or leaching from landfill sites just to name a few causes. Any water polluted by substances like these is not pure. With these thoughts in mind would you agree that pure drinking water should be free of impurities and contaminants? So how can we produce water of this quality for our household?

Installing a multi stage water filter using activated carbon that processes out a wide range of contaminants at point of use is a highly effective method to achieve this. A Multi-media block filter is a system that can filter out sediment and cysts like Giardi and Cryptospodium.

There is also another aspect to preserving the purity of the water we drink. Really we should want to mirror as near as humanly possible what we find in an unpolluted, uncontaminated natural spring or in underground water. Pure drinking mineral water. The filtered water should still include trace minerals such as Calcium, Magnesium and Potassium in fact some have argued there should be a high mineral content to preserve a healthy PH level.

In producing pure water there is more to it than rigorously removing contamination, there is also the need to secure the continued presence of the healthy mineral traces.