Alternative Sources of Water – Do We Really Need Them?
Pure drinking water is essential for men to live a healthy life. For eons, man has ceaselessly tried to purify water for drinking purposes. The earliest water purification systems were great at removing odors and improving the taste of water; regrettably this could not remove the microorganisms that caused most of the common diseases and epidemics.
Progresses made in science and technology, gave mankind new and more effective water purification systems such as:
- reverse osmosis
- distillation
- and UV water filtration
While each of these methods was a vast improvement over the older methods, they shared a common disadvantage – they purify ground or surface water in order to produce pure drinking water.
That brings us to an embarrassing question- How much of the toxic chemical wastes present in surface water can actually be removed by these water purification systems?
Industrial growth has come at a price that might be hard to pay. We have dumped immeasurable quantities of toxic wastes into our sources of potable water over the years. The toxic industrial wastes, pesticides from the agricultural fields and sewage have not only polluted the surface water but also seeped through to the ground water level to a limit from which there is no coming back.
Even the developed countries use minerals like chlorine and fluoride, two carcinogenic minerals, for water treatment purposes. The lead used in plumbing systems pollutes drinking water supplies. At this rate, surface water will not remain fit for any use, leave alone drinking.
Scientists have finally turned to atmospheric water for a viable solution. Strange as it sounds, we finally have a technology that practically “conjures” water from thin air. This latest water purification system uses atmospheric moisture to create pure drinking water.
Unlike all other water purification systems, it is not dependent on conventional water supply methods. The machine just needs electricity to operate and that’s about it! By using this technology, we can get water at rates as cheap as $0.5 a gallon, which makes it a practical home water purification system.
The home water purification appliances that use this technology can normally create up to 12 gallons of 99.99% pure drinking water per day. The appliances built for commercial use can create up to 24 gallons of pure drinking water everyday. One such appliance created by Atmospheric Water Systems, Inc., uses a four-stage water filtration system in order to remove the slightest of impurities.
In order to insure a zero bacteria count, they use a patented system. The built-in “Antibiotic Air-Filtration System” purifies the incoming air-flow in order to remove airborne microbes. The UV water filtration system takes care of the remaining impurities in order to produce the best quality drinking water. This device also doubles up as a water dispenser that provides both hot and cold water on demand and has child proof hot water safety guard valves.
At times like this, when global warming is a major concern, a water purification system such as this is a welcome development. It uses minimal energy and helps us avoid plastic that is extensively used in the case of bottled water. Choose these atmospheric water filtration units to reduce your carbon footprints.
