So, what can you do to ensure healthy drinking water for you and your family?
Well it seems very clear from just about every angle your best option would be to filter your water at home with a high quality filter.
After carefully studying this issue for well over a year it is very clear to me that the most cost effective and practical solution for nearly every family is to use a high quality water filter in your home. But there are a number of crucial issues about filters in order to select the best filter AND to use it to remove the maximum amount of DBPs to protect you and your family.
One of the key components in a home filter system is that it should remove fluoride for the reasons discussed above. Unfortunately most all carbon based filters do not remove fluoride.
Here are my other recommendations that should be on your checklist:
- Filter out chlorine as well as fluoride – Absolutely no exceptions on these!
- Remove inorganic contaminants like lead, aluminum, mercury, iron, sulfur, and lime scale
- Remove organic contaminants like herbicides, pesticides, THMs (disinfection byproducts), and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) that may effect the quality, odor, and taste of your drinking water
- Create a bacteriostatic environment – Must remove bacteria from the water
- Be environmentally smart and help conserve water and energy