How to Remove Drugs from your Drinking Water

A wealth of information is available on the internet these days about drugs and hormones being found in our drinking water. Much of the information relates to it's impact on fish that have developed both sex organs and other reproductive issues.

Our drinking water treatment facilities have never been equipped to handle such an situation. The treatment facilities that deliver water to our homes have been developed to kill organisms and parasites, plus sand and silt but not much more.

So where does that leave a home owner who is concerned about drugs and pharmaceuticals in the drinking water coming into his home? It leaves that home owner with no choice but to filter the water himself.

But here's the real question - what water filter will remove drugs from drinking water? Not a faucet mounted water filter!! Not any kind of carbon filter. Only a good quality reverse osmosis water filtration system will remove drugs from your drinking water.

Having said that let's be clear - even a reverse osmosis water filtration system MAY not COMPLETELY remove every impurity from your household water. BUT they do the best job of any water filter on the market. Reverse Osmosis is the system of water treatment that water treatment facilities will eventually be forced to use in order to remove drugs from your drinking water supply - but they are expensive on a large scale so it is going to be years before these systems are in place.

In the meantime, installing either an under-counter reverse osmosis water filter or a whole home reverse osmosis system is the best way to eliminate drugs from your family's drinking water.

Which to choose? An under-counter water filter or a whole home water filter? If you're concerned about the amount of water that gets wasted then filter the least amount of water possible.

One of the major downsides of reverse osmosis water filtration systems is that the filters must be "backwashed" frequently to remove the contaminants they have collected from the water. That means that reverse osmosis water filters can waste up to twice the amount of water they clean.

Make your water filter decision with the facts and filter the water you need to clean in your own situation - but if drugs in the water supply is a concern, then reverse osmosis water filters are the water filter option.

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