WATER DISTILLER
Distillation removes minerals and microbiological
contaminants and can reduce levels of chemical contaminants to produce
disinfected water safe for drinking and cooking.
How does it work?
A distiller removes minerals and contaminants by boiling
water until it becomes water vapor, condensing
this vapor and then returning it to its liquid state. As the purified
condensation (steam) slowly drains into a storage container, impurities are
left behind in the boiling chamber.
The problem.
Distillation removes everything, indiscriminately.
Bacteria, viruses, cysts, heavy metals and all beneficial minerals.
REVERSE OSMOSIS
Reverse osmosis creates a well-filtered drinking water,
safe for consumption. Bacteria, salt, and other particles larger than the
membrane used are removed.
How does it work?
In reverse osmosis filtration, a semipermeable membrane
acts as an extremely fine filter to create drinkable water from contaminated
water. It generally takes a lot of pressure and is fairly slow. This process is
sometimes referred to as hyper-filtration.
The problem.
Though reverse osmosis is successful at removing most
particular matter, these units require 2-3 gallons
of water to make 1 gallon of “clean” water.
The finer the membrane used, the more water is required; up to 10 gallons are necessary to make 1 gallon of
filtered water. What a massive waste
of valuable water! This is neither
efficient nor environmentally conscience. Also, many dangerous chemicals found
in pesticides, herbicides and chlorine are molecularly smaller than water and
can pass freely through its filter.
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