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How to Keep Your Drinking Water Healthy
Home Water Quality Tips

UV Lamp Depot - December 2008

Water is life.

Alright, that may sound a little contrived, but the truth is that all life depends on access to a continual supply of clean and safe drinking water. The average person can go several (or even many) days without food, however, the same person will become ill (or worse) within 24 hours without water.

How many of us have actually thought about the safety and quality of our daily drinking water which pours in abundance from our taps?

Would you be surprised to learn that across North America alone, there are thousands of boil-water orders (affecting hundreds of thousands of people) issued by local health departments each year?

Most boil-water orders are issued because the local water supply has become contaminated with bacteria that is pathogenic (capable of causing disease) in humans. The most common forms of bacterial contamination are E.coli and coliform and either of these in your water supply is bad news. These bacteria typically are washed into drinking water systems due to high local precipitation levels, improper well location, well casing defects and a host of other causes. If your community is subject to a boil-water order, you should be notified by the local public health branch, or via media notices released in your region. Occasionally, people affected by the boil-water order do not find out about the situation with their drinking water until after they have consumed some water and this can obviously be a major cause of concern.

The potential for bacterial contamination of your household drinking water must be eliminated, and many people today are taking the responsibility for ensuring the quality of their own drinking water on themselves.

There are several effective solutions that any homeowner, or tenant can use to protect themselves from contaminated drinking water. The best and most cost-effective solutions are typically Reverse Osmosis and UV Disinfection. RO systems are good for providing clean drinking water at the point-of-use (at the kitchen faucet for example) but cannot be effectively used to clean all the water in a home (cooking, bathing cleaning etc) due to the limitations of how much clean water they can produce.

Ultraviolet (UV) systems are also a good choice due to the fact that the UV light actually attacks the DNA of the bacteria and destroys it making the water safe to drink under all circumstances. UV systems are not limited to how much water can be cleaned in a day and therefore are ideally suited to provide safe water throughout the household (for all types of use). On a cost-per-volume comparison, UV Disinfection systems provide more useable water in any timeframe than a typical RO system.

RO systems and UV Disinfection systems are available in a wide variety of sizes and capacities.

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