Light It Up!

Author: CleanH2O
September 23, 2008

uvfilter.pngThe water purification market has a wide variety of methods that you and your family can use to obtain the healthiest drinking water. Because water filtration has been a concern for quite a few years, all of these methods have become fairly commonplace. Water filters, for example, are attached to many faucets across the country, filtering out both carbon and microscopic bacteria.

One of the newer items hitting shelves, however, is the UV water purifier. Alone, this system does not use a filter, but instead utilizes UV light. By exposing the water to UV light, UV water purifiers kill bacteria and viruses without adding any taste, color, or odor to your drinking water. It has been shown to be one of the most effective and cost-effective methods with which to kill microscopic organisms.

Because UV light does not kill all the dangerous contaminants in water, it is most often paired with another form of filtration such as a filter that can catch items like heavy metals or chlorine.

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