subject: Whole House Water System: Think your water is safe? Absolute faith with a whole house water system installed [print this page] Whole House Water System: Think your water is safe? Absolute faith with a whole house water system installed
A whole house water system can change your perception on water quality. Every city has a municipal maintained water network that serves the population of the urban center, and a water treatment facility to recycle and purify the water. For example Alvarado, a water treatment facility in San Diego (and the oldest in the city), treats approximately 500,000 cubic meters of water daily to serve part of the city population of over one million people. Centralized water treatment systems such as these are the norm in civic design, though they can be difficult to maintain. Ultimately, filtration systems however complex aim to soften the water, remove toxic contaminants, pathogens and particulate matter as well as effectively and efficiently recycle used water. If the water supply network is vast, well built and maintained, homes receive safe consumable water.
Household water systems are particularly suited to households that are not connected to a municipal system, instead relying on borehole or pumped water - typical of homes within large ranches. It is not unheard of for households and homeowners in urban areas to take extra precaution in their water systems, a sort of decentralizing of the water treatment process, in which home owners make use of a whole house water system as a point of use treatment system. A whole house water systemconnects between the water supply and main water network in your home (typically before splitting into the hot water system as well) ensuring that all water dispensing points - faucets, bathrooms, showers, kitchen etc, release only treated water.
The whole house water system is further categorized according to its use; for instance there are systems that are completely devoted to softening, while others are devoted to filtration. you can find units that achieve both functions together. whole house water system selection depends on what pollutants are found in the water supply. If your home is supplied with water by the local water company the water will probably be fresh water but may have trace amounts of chemicals used in water treatment such as chlorine which is (used in the chlorination process to sanitize water by destroying pathogens that cause waterborne diseases), heavy metals and industrial compounds that could have leaked into the public system through broken pipes. Typical of well water is high sediment content, metallic compounds such as Iron and disease causing microorganisms that find their way into the water supply.
The whole house water system will supply your house with safe fresh water, but selecting the right filter system may require that you have tests conducted on the water to know which contaminants are in it. It is relatively easily (depending on where you live) to have these tests done, even your local water authorities typically provide this service as do professional installation companies.
