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My goal is to provide an informative site where visitors can gather helpful information about their drinking water.


Introduction

Concerns about
   
water safety
Children and
    contaminated
    water
Pregnancy and
    drinking water
    contaminants


Introduction
Materials
    dissolved in
    water
    - Inorganics
    - Organics

Materials
    suspended in
    water
    - Pathogens
    - Asbestos
Interview

    excerpt

 
Drinking water 
    sources

Municipal
    providers
Private wells
Location of
    home
Chlorination
    and DBPs
High risk

    populations
Home age & lead
Use Sensory

    clues to identify   
    contaminants   


Importance of
    product
    certification

Things to consider
Water treatment
    methods, POU
    - Boiling
    - Distillation
    - Reverse
     Osmosis (RO)   
    - Filtration
        * Sediment
        * Activated
          carbon
             GAC
             Solid block
        * Pore size
    - Bottled water
    - Ultraviolet (UV)
    - Water softeners
    - KDF
    - Ion exchange
Comparison of
    drinking water
    treatment methods
Comparison of

    long-term costs
    for water
    treatment

Four Steps to
    determining the
    best water
    treatment method
    (new 2/05)

Recommendations
Questions
Comments and
    suggestions
Refer this site
    to friends
About Me


Over 300 links to
    drinking water
    related sites

Terrorism and
    Drinking Water
   
(updated 1/1/05)

 If you have not yet visited the Risk Factors For Drinking Water Contaminants
      or Treatment Methods pages yet, you might want to take a look at them first,
      before sending me your question.  They contain information that should help
      you develop a more focused question. 

 

If you are looking for a simple, economical, and highly effective long-term
     solution to significantly reduce a wide variety of harmful contaminants from
     your tap water, I would like to recommend a high quality, NSF certified,
     Solid Block Activated Carbon (SBAC) filtration system with sub-micron
     pores
.
  Complete details can be found here.
     
This filtration system will be effective for the majority of visitors to my site
     who use municipal water and would like to provide yourself and your family
     with safe, good-tasting drinking water.  Many people using well or surface
     water would also benefit from the extra protection of a good SBAC filtration
     system (perhaps in addition to a whole-house treatment system).
There are few simpler, more effective, and economical water purification
     devices available - just one filter housing with a single, inexpensive cartridge
     that you normally change about once a year.  
I also developed a page that outlines a four-step process for selecting the
     best water treatment method for your specific situation.

Any person who requires water of a specific microbiological purity should follow the advice of their doctor or local health officials regarding the use and consumption of tap water treated by ANY purification system.


I hope you gained a better understanding of your drinking water - which contaminants might be present, where they might come from, their possible health effects, and the most effective and economical treatment method for reducing the contaminants you are concerned about. 

If you have a question about your water or comment/suggestions about the site please e-mail me at : (java e-mail address, see below).
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I will reply to questions as quickly as possible.

Thank you for stopping by.

To your health ~ Randy

    



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