These days finding pure, clean, purified drinking water everywhere is not possible. Due to increasing population, developing industrial companies, environmental degradation, etc are all causes for this. So, for this current situation, it is very much important for us to be aware of drinking purified waters. For this reason, many more companies are putting their steps forward to provide us purified water by developing and creating their purification technology which is a blessing for human beings in this polluted environment. But before buying a water purifier for our home or offices we should be aware about its function, structure and many more things. A lot of minerals are present in water. Some are essential for our health in a certain measurement but increasing in amounts of those minerals can be harmful for our health. Easily we can’t find it out which is essential for us and in what amount we should take those. But water purifiers can do this job perfectly.
Water filters and water purifiers do the exact mechanical principle. At first, they suck up contaminated water and after that they filter out impurities, micro-organisms, bacteria which are not essential for us. For purifying, some purifiers use chemicals and others use an electro-static charge in order to kill or captures germs.
Things to look while buying a water purifier;
- Step 1- Before buying a water purifier, you should have information about the chemistry of your water that means the level of contamination in water. To get this information, you can do a laboratory test of your water in which you will get a perfect water analysis of your drinking water.
- Step 2- After getting a report on analysis of your water level, you have to decide that for what purpose you are going to buy a water purifier that means you want to purify only your drinking or cooking purpose water or the entire water system.
- Step 3- Collect the brand names, pricing range, standard of the product according to your budget. NSF, WQA, FDA etc give accreditation to water purifiers which is a safety mark for consumers who is going to buy this product.
- Step 4- best quality filters are very expensive to buy. So, before buying any water purifiers, it will be great to know about it by going through numerous reviews on a single online search. It is very important to know about the machine’s maintenance cost before you finalise your buy.
- Step 5- when you are ready to buy a water purifier after searching and comparing a lot it is very much important to ask the seller about its accreditation, sediment filter, warranty, free services, it’s a RO purifier or not. If yes what is the filtering speed.
There are more than ten brands of water purifiers in market such as Eureka, Forbes, Kent, Tata Swach, Pureit etc. Each of these differs according to cost, type of filtration, methods of purification. So, before buying a water purifier for your home do a clear cut and informative enquiry about the product because you are not buying a water purifier for yourself, you are buying a safe zone sphere for your family.