The Disadvantages Of Reverse Osmosis Water Purifiers
One of the most expensive ways to filter the water coming in to your home is by purchasing and installing a reverse osmosis water filter system. However, in this case the most expensive does not necessarily mean the best. Set out below are some of the disadvantages of reverse osmosis water purifiers.
Still Being Sold
There are many people that are still led to believe by those selling them that the best way to filter water coming into your home is with a reverse osmosis filter system.
Newer technology allows whole house filtering systems for a fraction of that cost, and gives the user all the water that passes through the system filtered and ready to drink immediately much faster, and with vastly reduced running costs.
Unnecessary Waste
It is not easy for any salesman to hide the fact that gallon upon gallon of water using reverse osmosis is wasted, in order to produce just a few gallons suitable to drink.
For instance, between 40 and 90 gallons of water is wasted for every 5 gallons of purified water. That is an unacceptable and flagrant waste of this precious resource, especially galling as there are other systems that don't waste a drop! Indeed, some householders have had to upgrade their septic system in order to accommodate all this discarded water.
Power
Quite apart from the environmental impact of increased power usage, as a lot of power is necessary to produce this small amount of drinking water, the constantly rising cost of electricity ensures your power bills will reach new heights.
So Does Reverse Osmosis Make Water Safe To Drink?
This is the most important question when considering purchasing any water filtration system, and especially so when buying one that is as costly and expensive to install and operate.
Well, the answer is that this system makes the water safer to drink, but not necessarily safe. It does a competent job certainly, but no better than the considerably cheaper systems employing more economical methods to filter water without all the whistles and bells whilst doing so.
Other disadvantages of reverse osmosis systems are their removal of healthy minerals and failure to remove some of the harmful cysts and chemicals in the 'purified' water.
One manufacturer of such equipment has freely admitted that these units are only designed to clean up the waters aesthetic properties. They don't in fact act as a barrier against waterborne micro-biological and toxic chemicals.
One other disadvantage of reverse osmosis filters is that they can remove all the natural minerals which are good for us from the water. If giving your family fresh, clean, pollutant free water as efficiently and cost effectively as possible is your aim, then you would do well to look elsewhere.