The public may have achieved better health through reverse osmosis when the treatment facilities began using them, but today’s home reverse osmosis systems are a waste of money for most of us. Unless you have brackishness or seawater, you just don’t need one. And, even if you do, you would still have to have a system with additional steps or the water would not be safe or healthy for drinking.

With what I know about home reverse osmosis systems, it makes me shudder whenever I hear that marketing ploy. Yes, pregnant women should only drink purified water, but home reverse osmosis systems are NOT purifiers. Alone, they do little more than de-mineralize and drinking de-mineralized on a regular basis is bad for anyone.

The only people who gain better health through reverse osmosis are those who have kidney failure. Dialysis machines make use of the technology.

Let’s look for a moment at what the home reverse osmosis systems do. By forcing pressurized water through a porous membrane, they remove anything heavier or larger than the water’s molecules. So, there is protection from lead and heavy metals. There is removal of dirt and some sediment. And, as we already mentioned minerals are removed. If salt is present, it can be removed as well.

The list of what is not removed is much longer. Chemical contaminants, chlorine, THMs, fine sediment, bacteria, parasites, protozoa, cysts, MTBE, pesticides, weed killer and probably a few more that I haven’t thought of will still be present.

In order to have better health through reverse osmosis, you would also need carbon filtration, multi-media blocks, micron filtration, ion exchange and re-mineralization. Does that sound reasonable? Not to me.

Then there are the negative environmental effects of home reverse osmosis systems. Gallons of wastewater are created every time that a single gallon is cleaned. Can we really afford that?

They require electricity for the pumps and pressurization, so you are using up even more of our natural resources. The planet itself cannot achieve better health through reverse osmosis.

Reverse osmosis home systems are expensive to purchase, install and maintain. Your electricity bills will go up and if you pay for your water, that bill will go up as well. If you pay for sewage treatment, that bill will also go up. So even your checking account will not achieve better health through reverse osmosis.

Don’t buy into the advertising hype and don’t buy home reverse osmosis systems if you don’t need them. They are simply a waste.

David Everett is passionate about the quality of drinking water and dedicated to carrying out the necessary research to determine how to make our water safe to drink. Discover the only alternative to home reverse osmosis systems he recommends and why at http://www.SafeWaterFiltrationSystems.com.