Reverse Osmosis Water Is Very Clean and Healthy To Drink

Background

Some folks claim that Reverse Osmosis (RO) water is unnatural water and too pure and clean to drink. They go on to say that such clean mineral free water does not exist naturally on earth. However, this type of water does exist and it is called RAINWATER.

Rainwater

Rainwater has been stripped of all minerals and is often the purest and cleanest water available. However, because of man and animals, only a finite quantity of fresh water is available on earth. Nature’s hydrological water cycle strives relentlessly to replenish the supply, but as rain falls, it picks up impurities which are rising from the earth’s environment.

People have been drinking rainwater for thousands of years without any negative health effects. It is only relatively recently that rain water has been polluted by the industrial age and man’s pollution of the skies. In the absence of heavy natural or man-made air pollution, rainwater can be very pure and safe to drink.

Nature’s Hydrological

Energy from the sun causes the evaporation of water from the seas, lakes, rivers and streams. Other sources of water vapor include plants, animal life and combustion from human activities. The evaporated water condense in clouds as the temperature drops in the upper atmosphere. Winds may transport the water in the clouds over a great distance before releasing it in the form of rain, sleet or snow which falls to the ground.

As the precipitated water falls through the atmosphere, it picks-up impurities which  may be caused by rising environmental situations. Upon reaching the earth, the water either percolates through the soil to the aquifers or finds its way to a body of water. Since water approaches the condition of being an almost universal solvent, when the rain reaches the surface of the earth,it quickly dissolves and /or transports just about every material with which it comes in contact. While some of these materials may be beneficial, most are not useful in drinking water. Many are harmful, even toxic.

Reverse Osmosis vs Distilled Water

Both effectively reduce “dissolved solids” content of water, but the processes are quite different. RO systems push water through a very tight semi-permeable membrane. A distiller is like a big teakettle: it boils water, catches the steam, condenses it, and captures the resulting water. However, distillers don’t do a good job with volatile chemicals with a low boiling point. Chloramines, for example, which many cities now use instead of chlorine as a disinfectant, aren’t removed well by distillers. Reverse osmosis, with the carbon filters that accompany it, does a very good job with chloramines.

RO Water Is Safe To Drink

With the scientific research that has been conducted over the last 40 years on Reverse Osmosis water, none has ever documented any negative health effects from people drinking RO water. In fact, RO technology has also been extensively tested in the past by the US military and is approved for and highly used throughout the military. Modern Reverse Osmosis units for the home combine membrane technology with carbon and mechanical filtration to produce highly purified great tasting water that is safe to drink.