Countertop Reverse Osmosis Water Filter - Health & Safety Concerns

Countertop Reverse Osmosis Water Filter - Health & Safety Concerns

Thinking about getting a countertop reverse osmosis water filter for your home? Well, before you do get one, here are a few health and safety concerns that come with using them.

First of all, it's worth knowing how a countertop reverse osmosis water filter works. In a nutshell, it removes most sediment, particulate, and suspended solids that are molecularly larger than water is.

Originally, they were only used in the commercial sector. The printing, photo, and medical fields used machinery that required the use of water free of any type of solids, particulate, and minerals. But as the popularity of home filtration grew, manufacturers felt that they could rake in some of these profits.

In my research of countertop reverse osmosis water filter systems, I discovered that the water they produce actually poses a few additional health and safety concerns. For example, without the use of a carbon filter, synthetic chemicals cannot be removed (since they're smaller in size than water molecules).

But more importantly, they only produce demineralized water. Many experts are saying that drinking demineralized water over the long-run can pose serious health concerns, including mineral deficiencies, increased free radical production, and even an increased chance of developing cancer at some point in life.

Now since the main purpose of getting a home water filtration system is to protect our self and our family's health, getting a countertop reverse osmosis water filter just doesn't make sense, in my opinion.

Through our extensive research, my family and I were able to find filtration systems that produce more safer and healthier water- water free of harmful contaminants but still containing beneficial minerals.

And since price was important for us as well, other options seemed to be much cheaper than countertop reverse osmosis water filter systems. The countertop system we ended up going with was initially cheaper than any countertop reverse osmosis water filter we saw, and it's ongoing cost-of-use was more than twice as cheap, costing us only 9 cents for a whole gallon of pure, safe, healthy drinking water.

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