Scarier Than the Boogie Man – Bacteria in Drinking Water
Under no illusions, despite advances in the municipal water purification process over the last 100 years, bacteria in drinking water and other pathogens continue to affect water supplies across the country.
The municipal water purification process uses chlorination to kill bacteria in drinking water, waterborne parasites, and other microorganisms.
And to their credit, the process has resulted in a reduction in typhoid, cholera, and other waterborne diseases. However, as science would show, we are not entirely free from home.
There have been new findings showing that there are a variety of pathogens that are ready and waiting to attack tap water users.
New discoveries
Now, as science and detection techniques advance, scientists have discovered a variety of microorganisms that are resistant to chlorine. This means that they actually persist in the “safe drinking water” that comes out of our taps.
Microorganisms like Aeromonas, Cryptosporidium, Giardia, Legionella, and Pseudomonas continue to show up in water supplies across the country with far less reassuring regularity.
And that’s not all. Recent studies have revealed that these microbiological problems have been showing up in bottled water, water coolers, and water lines in dentists’ offices.
Even some undercounter reverse osmosis water purifiers, which ironically are supposed to remove contaminants from drinking water, are breeding grounds for these microorganisms.
super bugs
As mentioned above, there are some microorganisms such as cryptosporidium and giardia that can survive chlorinated water treatment at your municipal water supplier.
In Milwaukee in 1993, a cryptosporidium outbreak killed 100 people and some 40,000 became ill with vomiting, diarrhea, etc.
A famous California dentist died of legionella pneumophilia that came from the water pipes in his office.
It is incidents like these that have solidified microorganisms in drinking water as the deadliest of all the thousands of potential drinking water contaminants. Microorganisms can kill and they can kill fast.
Home water treatment solution.
Clearly, you’ll have to do something to give your family an extra layer of protection against bacteria in your drinking water.
Quite rightly, many homes have turned to a home water treatment system, but many times, due to their ignorance, they have turned to the wrong type of treatment.
For example, many have purchased reverse osmosis water filters. These have long been known to be unsuitable for treating microbes in drinking water and could, in fact, become a breeding ground for microbes.
Then there are activated carbon filters which are great for chemical removal but achieve limited removal of microorganisms.
The two best home water treatment systems to combat pathogens in tap water are steam distillation and ultraviolet water purifiers.
Steam distillation kills a wide range of microorganisms. Because it uses steam and gravity to accomplish this removal, you’ll find that over time, it doesn’t give you diminishing results.
Other types of water purifiers remove contaminants at a decreasing rate over time. This is because they use components such as filters and membranes that degrade and become more inefficient with use. So, as time goes by, you are drinking regular tap water and not filtered tap water.
Ultraviolet disinfection (uv purifiers) uses ultraviolet radiation to sterilize the DNA of microorganisms and prevent them from reproducing. However, this type of device must be used in conjunction with a more conventional water filter to remove sediment from tap water.
You see, sediment is the Achilles heel of an ultraviolet water filter. The sediment casts a shadow when exposed to ultraviolet light. Any bacteria in that shade cannot be killed by ultraviolet light. Therefore, for ultraviolet purification to work effectively, tap water must be free of sediment.
Conclusion.
Conventional domestic water purification is inadequate to deal with the superbug threat to your health and that of your family.
To deal with bacteria in drinking water effectively, you’ll need a distiller or ultraviolet filter to give you the protection you deserve.
As you’ve seen, there’s a reason microorganisms are said to be the most dangerous contaminants in drinking water. It’s because if left unchecked and you ingest it through a glass of water, they can kill you pretty quickly.
Protect yourself and your family, get a steam distiller or ultraviolet water filter today.