How Reverse Osmosis Improves Your Water
Have you ever noticed that your water tastes funny? It might taste metallic to you, or even a little bit dirty. That could be because it’s got contaminants floating around in it, like fluoride, chlorine, and even pesticides. On the flip side, maybe you’ve tried filtered water and noticed that it tasted infinitely better. That’s how it should taste, and the way to achieve that quality of cleanliness is reverse osmosis (RO) filtration.
In this blog, you’ll learn about how reverse osmosis is able to make your water taste better and significantly improve the quality of what’s coming out of your tap.
Why Does Water Taste Better After Being Filtered?
First, if you’re not yet familiar with this type of water filtration, read our blog to learn more about what reverse osmosis is. You’ll gain a deeper understanding of why it’s elite technology is far more effective than other types of filtration, like your average pitcher or refrigerator water filter.
Now, because RO is so efficient and precise, it can remove many of the impurities that can make your water taste and smell weird, like sediment, minerals, and heavy metals. These contaminants are often what leave your tap water tasting heavy, metallic, and even earthy, whereas filtered water is more refreshing.
Your drinking water might even look different after going through reverse osmosis water purification. Common contaminants can leave water cloudy, and you might even see the particles and sediment, depending on what’s in it.
Filtered water is going to be much more clear. You should be able to see right through it, and there should be neither any suspended/floating particles nor anything collected on the bottom of the glass.
How Does Reverse Osmosis Affect Water Quality?
While ideally, your public water system closely monitors the quality of your tap water and adjusts it accordingly, this might not be happening. And there are particles in your water that could be making you sick.
Think of microplastics, which have snuck their way into the air, land, and water — and as a result, our bodies. Fluoride is purposely added to our water (not unlike our toothpaste) because it’s good for our teeth, although we don’t yet know its effect on the rest of the body and what levels are truly safe for us. Chlorine is meant to clean the water, in the way it cleans the water of a pool, but too much of it is risky for our health.
Your tap water might also be home to microbial contaminants like bacteria and viruses, microorganisms like E. coli and noroviruses, disinfection byproducts like chloroform, fertilizer, sewage, and even manure. If you live near a construction site or livestock, your conditions might be even more severe.
If you want to know just how disastrous low-quality water can be, all you need to do is read up on the Flint water crisis and the long-lasting repercussions that has had on its residents.
This is why RO is so important.
When your water goes through reverse osmosis filtration, the filters are so fine that the only thing that can pass through is water molecules. Everything else gets left behind.
Reverse osmosis water filtration works better than any refrigerator water filter or Brita filter you’ll find. These devices don’t typically use filters that are powerful enough to stand up to the contaminants in your water, and they ultimately let many of them through.
For example, another type of water filter is an activated carbon filter. These filters aren’t bad, necessarily. In fact, we use them in our air purifiers! However, on their own, they simply aren’t enough. This is why, in our air purifiers, we combine them with a pre-filter, a medical-grade HEPA 13 filter, and UV-C light.
Even bottled water isn’t necessarily safe. Oftentimes, it’s simply tap water that’s been bottled and labeled with a hefty price tag and contains microplastics! Plus, the vast majority of the time, those bottles end up in landfills, where they can take decades to hundreds of years to decompose. And regardless of the decomposition rate, the plastic is still polluting the land and water — and eventually, the water entering through your tap at home.
Any way you cut it, filtering your drinking water via reverse osmosis is the best thing you can do to protect not only your health but the greater environment around you.
Reverse Osmosis Water Filtration… Revolutionized
Understanding the inner workings of your water purifier is important for ensuring it’s doing its job. So, how have we done it?
The Sans water purifier starts with a four-layer reverse osmosis filter. This is the gold standard of water purification, removing impurities down to 0.0001 microns in size.
To amplify the filtration process further, we’ve built in UV-C purification — the ultimate defense against pathogens like viruses, bacteria and mold.
The water quality monitor gives you real-time updates, Sans can instantly dispense hot water, and it automatically refills so that you always have a full pitcher, which is removable. You can expect our filters to last anywhere from 12 to 24 months before needing to be replaced.
We’ve combined the latest technology with unparalleled convenience and a sleek design to bring your purified water 24/7/365. Our purifier has more than 1,500 reviews on our website, with an overall 4.9/5 stars. If you need clean water on the go, you might like our self-cleaning water bottle, which uses UV-C light purification. The double-wall vacuum insulation keeps water hot for 12 hours and cold for 24 hours.
Your public water system might not be up to your standards. Take control of your water quality by leveraging Sans and the power of reverse osmosis.