Why you should stay away from residential reverse osmosis systems
Let’s face it; in this day and age everybody is concerned about the quality of water we have at our home. Residential reverse osmosis systems are one of the options that people choose to install at their home.
After studying the pros and cons of these residential reverse osmosis systems, I came to the conclusion that I should advise against them. Below, I will give you the three top reasons to support my decision. I rank them in terms of importance, the first being the least important.
Reason #1: Because of the way they work, these systems’ speed of operation is very low. You see, the way they process water is by using high pressure to push it through a filter which has very small holes, or pores as they are called. The principle is very simple: All that is contained in the water and has smaller molecules than these pores goes through to the other side (the output side), while the rest remains in the input side. In this way, the water gets filtered, as a large range of contaminants (with large molecules) do not make it through to the other side. This whole process is inevitably time consuming, due to the very small size of the pores.
Just to give you a rough indication, in order for one gallon of pure water to be produced, it may take up to three hours. As a consequence of this drawback, installation of residential reverse osmosis systems always requires for a storage tank with capacity 2 to 5 gallons of water.
Therefore, when you buy a reverse osmosis system you should always have in mind that you need the extra available space needed for the storage tank. Also, you should estimate beforehand the maximum demand of running water that you will nedd at your home on an everyday basis, so as to make sure that the system you will install will be able to meet that demand.
Reason #2: To make matters worse, most RO units waste a lot of water. Just to give you an indication, they typically use between 3 to 10 gallons of tap water to produce 1 gallon of purified water; the remainder drains away.
Because of this, you realize that your cost of ownership of the system will increase, as you water bill will go up due to higher water consumption. As this is not enough, you will also have to make an extra provision for the water drainage set up.
Reason #3: And here comes the most important reason which, even if the first two not existed, this alone should be enough to prevent you from purchasing residential reverse osmosis systems. As I already mentioned, operation of this system is based on the difference in the molecular size of water on the one hand and a wide range of pollutants on the other. Now, unfortunately, together with these pollutants the system discards essential minerals that water contains. These are calcium, potassium and magnesium to name a few.
It is worth mentioning that demineralized water is not very appealing to your taste buds. It is flat and tasteless.
But, unfortunately, the drawbacks of drinking demineralized water do not end on just the taste alone. Long time consumption of it can really endanger your health, as experts say. In fact, in their report that was published some time ago and was based on results of a detailed study, the World Health Organization claim that, in order to avoid any health problems, people should never consume water that does not contain minimum levels of essential minerals.
Instead of reverse osmosis systems, what you should be considering is water multi filtration technology. To learn more about this technology and what I personally recommend, visit my website.