Water is such an integral part of our daily life and in most of the cases, water does not start out clean. Our drinking water goes through lots of treatment before it makes to our home. Even though our water has already been treated by our city/ municipal water treatment, it can still harbor bacteria, other contaminants in your storage tank and pipes. Water Conditioning System helps you to eradicate all these contaminants and provides you and your family safe drinking time and, in the meantime, keeps your plumbing safe and free from these contaminants.

Water Conditioning System vs. Water Softener

People often take both Water Softer and Water Conditioning System as similar but in fact they have different properties.  When it comes to the hard water, Water Softener removes all the hard chemicals like calcium, magnesium and silica ions, leaving very few amounts of quantities. Water Softeners often uses ion exchange process to replace these ions with salt.

In other hand, Water Conditioner is more advanced way to remove hardness mineral and prevent them from building up. Water Conditioner also tackles other issues such as biological contaminants such as bacteria and algae. Water Softener is not designed to address other issues than removing hard chemicals from drinking water. Water Conditioner tends to waste less water and needs less maintenance than that of Water Softeners.

How does a Water Conditioning System Work?

There are different kind of water conditioning system and the way they work differs from one to another. They use different methods to create a catalytic reaction that changes the way that contaminants behave in water. But the end goal of different kind of water conditioners are same to address the issue like biofouling and scale build up. The goal of water conditioner is to slow the rate of scale formation by reducing the formation of limescale in water. Water conditioners do not actually remove mineral ions, but they prevent them from building up inside your plumbing fixtures. This reduces hassle of preventing hard water using salt bags like that of traditional water softeners.

Another upside of water conditioner is that it can also address biological contaminants by deactivating them. Water Conditioning System uses electrical signaling in your plumbing causing minerals to join, forming clusters. Over the time when these clusters build up, they form stable crystals. Electrical signaling also affects biological matter and breaks them up which are carried out by flow of water.

Types of Water Conditioners

There are different types of water conditioners available in market and all of them have a different mechanism. We have listed few different water conditioning methods below:

• Template-Assisted Crystallization: Template-Assisted Crystallization, TAC changes hardness mineral ion into stable crystalline form using resin beads as catalytic nucleation site. Stable crystalline are microscopic, flow normally in water but will not cling into a surface.
• Electrical Induction: Normally this kind of water conditioners uses electricity to precipitate hardness of water. Precipitate are formed on the electrode which requires periodic cleaning. But this layer can also be easily removed by fast-flowing water.
• Electrolysis: Electrolysis based water conditioners requires battery to operate; metal electrodes are immersed in the water, and they release positive zinc ions. They also release electrons that move through the wire to the cathode. Over the time when zinc anode dissolves in your water; this process will cease eventually and no longer affect your water.
• Magnetic: This type of water conditioners uses magnets to a magnetic field in your water which acts as a way that dissolve hardness ions. A Magnetic field changes the shape of clusters which prevents ions from sticking in water surfaces.
• Electromagnetic: This type of water conditioner is similar to magnetic but the only difference is that they use electricity to produce a magnetic field. The only advantage over the traditional magnetic conditioner is that you can turn off magnetic signal if you need to.

These are some of the physical Water Conditioning System; some other water treatment methods use chemical to treat the water and are not physical conditioners. As an example, A water softener uses ion exchange chemical process to treat the water. Some of the examples of chemical treatment method are listed below:

• Reverse Osmosis: Often known as RO, works by reversing the principle of osmosis; the natural tendency of water with dissolved salts to flow through a membrane from lower concentration to higher. In reverse osmosis system, pressure from a pump is used to overcome natural osmotic pressure forcing impurities through a semipermeable membrane that removes high volume of impurities.
• Chelation: Chelation uses chemical compound in water which acts a chelating agent. Contaminants bind to these agents and remain suspend in water rather than building up in a surface.
• Clark’s Process: Clark’s process is often known as lime softening and uses calcium hydroxide which causes the hardness ions to precipitate. This increases alkalinity of water significantly, so carbon dioxide must be added to re-carbonate the water.

We have developed advanced and effective Water Conditioning System that does not use any sort of harmful chemical or salt. All it takes is an easy guided installation in your home. Our advanced scientifically proven conditioner uniquely removes all the hardness, harmful chemical and other biological contaminants from your drinking water. Our water conditioner’s high  efficiency is what made 97% of our customer to rate us with 5 stars ratings. We recommend you to get one of our Water Conditioning System and start living a health life.

Water is such an integral part of our daily life and we can not imagine our life without water. Because 60% of our body is made up of water, we need to be very careful about the water we drink. Our body uses water on all they way from small cells to large organ systems in order to regulate body temperature and maintain bodily functions. Water directly or indirectly affects every single organ system in our body. Having said this, it is important for us to think twice before we drink water.

Drinking water often gets processed from the city/ municipal water system before it drops from your tap. But in between impurities can add up due to poor plumbing, leakage and other environmental facts. It is crucial for us to have a proper water filter system set up in our home to purify our drinking. While there can be lots of water contaminants in water but the major one which causes a significant effect in our health is bacteria. Today we will discuss about several proven ideas to remove bacteria from drinking water. But before we start lets quickly hover over the different types of bacteria with their effects on our health.

Common types of bacteria found in water

• coli: It is a strain of Escherichia coli that are found in intestines of living beings. Most of the E. coli are harmless but there is some vicious strain that can cause serious illness to human body when consumed.
• Legionella: They are pathogenic bacteria that thrives in warm water and are found commonly in freshwater stream, lake and surface water. They can cause pneumonia-like illness known as Legionnaires disease which are responsible for Pontiac fever.
• Shigella: These are the group of strains that are responsible for contagious diarrheal disease called shigellosis. This kind of bacteria are common in unfiltered or untreated water. If consumed, it can cause severe diseases like diarrhea, fever, stomach pain and other abdominal cramping.
• Giardia: They are the microscopic parasite and most common water borne disease carriers in the United States. These parasites will dwell in your intestines and cause giardiasis leading to diarrhea, bloating, nausea and stomach cramps.
• Cryptosporidium: They are also microscopic parasites and common water borne disease carriers in the United States. They cause cryptosporidiosis which can develop into a chronic illness with serious health implications.

How to remove bacteria from drinking water?

The simple answer to remove bacteria from drinking water is filtering or boiling it. Bacteria can also be removed from water using chlorine, UV disinfection and ozonation. Most of the municipal  water system uses chlorination method to remove bacteria from city water supplies. While most of the homeowners use UV disinfection method to prevent bacteria from drinking water. Let’s break all the method down and talk about each.

UV Disinfection Method

UV disinfection method is one of the most common and popular methods of bacteria treatment in drinking water. UV rays neutralize the DNA of bacteria and prevent them from replicating in water. UV radiation exposes micro-biological pathogens, bacteria, virus and other cysts present in drinking water to germicidal ultraviolent wavelength. UV radiation just at the 254-nm wavelength disrupts the DNA of these pathogens making them unable to replicate. UV rays also prevent them from spreading diseases through drinking water.

UV disinfection method has little to zero water waste and does not use any chemical to treat water, this is what it makes this method as one of the best ways to remove biological contaminants from drinking water. This method is ideal for those houses that rely on well water, beach water.

Chlorine

Chlorine can be used to treat water to remove waterborne pathogens from drinking water. When chlorine encounters bacteria and other pathogens present in water, it breaks down the chemical bonds on a molecular level which forms weak acid called as hypochlorous acid. Hypochlorous acid penetrates the negative charge of bacteria’s cell walls and destroys them from inside out. But when chlorine is added to water in large scale, it leaves a lingering chemical aftertaste to drinking water which then can be easily improved by carbon filter.

Chlorine deactivates bacteria by damaging its cell membrane and once the membrane is weakened, chlorine can easily disrupt cell respiration and DNA activity of bacteria which are crucial for bacteria to survive. Different studies have shown that, chlorine when added to water in small amount does not cause any harmful side effects to human health and provides protection against water borne diseases. However, it is recommended to check chlorine level in your drinking water occasionally.

Ozone

Ozone has excellent disinfection and oxidation quality and is used widely to treat drinking water. It can be simply added to water at several point throughout the water treatment system. We recommend you to use ozone before a sand or carbon filter. Once water goes through ozone, bacteria and other organic compounds are removed. Here are some benefits of adding ozone to water treatment system:

• Remove bacteria and other inorganic matters.
• Eradicate micro-pollutants like pesticides.
• Odor and taste elimination
• Reduction of disinfection byproducts.
• Enhancement of the coagulation-decontamination process.

Distillation

Distillation completely removes all inorganic compounds like lead, nitrate, iron from contaminated water. Boiling followed by distillation also removes all the remaining bacteria and other organic compounds from water making water safe to drink.  However, its effectiveness depends on chemical characteristics of the organic compound, their solubility and their boiling effect. Picking up right distillation unit is where it comes handy to be on safe side.

Distillation units requires some regular maintenance to keep them working properly. Distillation units normally heats up water which makes its operating cost slightly higher than those of other home treatment methods.

Can we use Reverse Osmosis systems to remove bacteria from water?

Reverse Osmosis (RO) is one of the leading water purification technologies widely used in daily life. It uses high pressure and permeable membranes designed to block all the foreign substance from water. RO system all removes all salt and minerals in water however we do not recommend RO system as a primary method to remove bacteria from water. UV disinfection, chlorination, ozone and distillation process are the most common and effective ways to remove bacteria from your drinking water.

UV Water Purifiers are those water treatment machines which uses UV technology to treat the water. They use the power of UV to disinfect water and make it completely free from bacteria and germs.

UV Water Purifiers is one of the most common water treatment methods used in the United States to filter water. It is a chemical free and environment friendly water treatment solution ensuring to kill 99.9% of bacteria present in drinking water. In addition to this, UV Water Purifiers do not affect taste or odor of water while ensuring safe drinking water to you and your family.

They can be used to protect against water-borne viruses, bacteria, molds and pathogenic disease-causing microorganisms such as giardia and cryptosporidium. Viruses such as Hepatitis are highly resistant to chlorine treatment but can be easily eliminated using UV treatment. UV Water Purifiers are cheap and small point of use system for whole house system and they are easy to install and maintain plus do not damage plumbing or septic tanks.

How a UV Water Purifier works?

UV rays expose all micro-biological pathogens, bacteria, viruses and cysts present in water to germicidal ultraviolent wavelength. UV radiation just at the 254-nm wavelength can easily disrupt the DNA of these harmful pathogens making them unable to replicate.

UV dosage is the measurement of energy delivered by UV Water Purifier. The more dosage of UV provided; the more energy is delivered to treat contaminated water. At certain point, energy becomes enough to inactivate almost all the pathogens present in water. UV rays deactivate the living organism in water but do not remove particles from water or add chemicals or removes bad tastes or water. In order to get pure water, you should consider adding our Water Filter along with UV Water Purifier.

What does UV Water Purifier remove?

UV Water Purifiers are tested and proven to remove following contaminants from water:

• Giardia
• Cryptosporidium
• Salmonella
• Dysentery bacilli
• Mycobacterium tuberculosis
• Coli
• Hepatitis B
• Streptococcus
• Cholera
• Algae
• Fungi and other viruses

What’s inside UV Water Purifier?

UV Water Purifier contains an enclosed chamber that encases the entire system. The glass quartz sleeve holds the UV lamp which is responsible to emit a germicidal wavelength of radiation (UC-C) to deactivate harmful pathogens. The glass quartz sleeve is transparent and allows UV light to penetrate through and disinfect the water. This quartz glass sleeve protects UV lamp and system with direct contact to water. UV lamps runs on mercury vapor, mercury vapor is loaded in UV lamps in form of little beads.

Are UV Water Purifiers safe?

UV rays in high dosage is not safe for humans as they can cause several disorders including cancer. UV rays just below the certain threshold are completely safe for humans and just enough to kill all the bacteria, parasites, and pathogens. Chlorine treatment can be an alternative for this, but UV treatment is much safer in contrast. Unless you touch the inner UV bulb when it’s ON, you’re completely safe and in no danger of exposure to harmful rays.

Advantages of UV Water Purifier

• No use of Chemicals: Water treatment chemicals to some extent are not harmful to human body but may cause some minor disorders over the time. UV Water Purifiers do not use any sorts of chemicals, hence do not alters taste and color of water.
• Simple and Cost Effective: UV Water Purifiers are easy to install and most of them come with inbuilt taps. All you need to do is turn on electricity supply. UV Water Purifiers contains a bulb that only uses 60 watts of power to operate significantly reducing the operating cost.
• No damage to pipes: Chemical purifies the water but over the time they start corroding plumbing fixtures of your home. As UV Water Purify does not use any sorts of chemicals; it does not damage your pipes and plumbing.
• Easy maintenance: UV Water Purifiers do not require your attention and effort to operate. But once in a year you need to replace the lamp and once in every two years you need to replace quartz glass inside.

Drawbacks of UV Water Purifier

While UV Purifier is one of the most efficient ways to treat water, but it also has some drawbacks which you need to consider before you purchase one of them.

• Portability: As UV Water Purifier constantly require electricity to function, you cannot just take them to your camps or places where there is limited electric supply.
• Leaves some impurities behind: Though UV Water Purifier kills 99.9% harmful bacteria; but we still do not want to consume the leftovers. As UV Water Purifier is not a filter, it does not remove all the leftovers. It is highly recommended to use whole house filter system along with UV Water Purifier to ensure safe drinking water.
• Regular maintenance: Though its easy to maintain UV Water Purifiers but maintenance need to be carried out on regular basis.

Apart from these, UV lights are invisible to our naked eyes which make us too hard to determine if the purifier is working or not. We may end up drinking impure water without even knowing about it. Therefore, it is necessary for UV Water Purifiers to replace UV lamps at least in a year.

A UV light sterilization water filter system is a fantastic way to treat your water without using any sorts of chemical. It is best way to maintain clean and health water guaranteeing your water quality is above standard. Just make sure you use whole house water filtration system or other filter technology to remove the leftovers from UV disinfection.

UV wavelength disorders DNA of the micro-biological organism in water which stops them from reproducing. Micro-biological organism can embed in your digestive track and replicate causing other health problems. UV radiations damage nucleic acids present in DNA of all pathogens, parasites, bacteria and viruses and prevents them from replicating.

If your water has impurities like pathogens, bacteria and other harmful micro-biological organisms, then you should consider using UV Water Purifier. UV Water Purifier kills the micro-biological organism, harmful pathogens by exposing them to ultraviolet light.

Scale creates a significant problem with washing, heating, cooling, and steam equipment. Over the time when scale buildup can cause long-term damage to equipment and forces you premature servicing. It will directly increase operating cost and utilities of all the water equipment involved. Scale also causes pressure loss in the pipelines and fouls internal surfaces. If this is left untreated, it can weaken the pipeline to the extent that it will require an entire replacement which again comes with a big budget. If you live in hard water area, then you must use scale prevention techniques to save and minimize your utilities bills.

How to prevent scale from tap water?

There are various kind of scale prevention system which prevent irremovable scale deposits on your taps and fixtures. They also protect internal parts of your plumbing safe and corrosion free thus maintaining efficiency of your equipment. Here are some of the most common ideas to prevent scale from your tap water:

Use Water Conditioner of Softener

Scale is the result of hard water but when you have water conditioner or softener, it will prevent scale buildup from your entire plumbing. A water conditioner or softener is a great way to prevent annoying scale buildup in your plumbing. They normally form a unique bond with minerals dissolving them even before they can cause any damage to your plumbing fixtures and other appliances.

Water Filter

Water Filters are most efficient devices to remove any unessential minerals that are found in water. Water Filters can be simply installed on faucets and taps to filter hard minerals like calcium and magnesium concentrates from water. Calcium and Magnesium concentrates are the major culprit behind the formation of lime scale.

Descale System or Magnetic Water Conditioner

A descale system or magnetic water conditioner is a popular method that can prevent scale formation on plumbing fixtures. These systems start working instantly after you install them and save you tons of money in maintenance. This works through magnetizing the water together keeping them in suspension to prevent accumulation on walls of the pipe. A magnetic field cleans all the existing lime scale strain in water system and prevent scales from building up.

Vinegar and Lemon Juice

It is a handy technique of getting rid of scale formation from your tap. You can flush your equipment timely with mixture of vinegar and lemon juice to prevent scale build up. Mixtures of vinegar and lime react with scale causing minerals and flush them out preventing your plumbing from scale formation.

Reverse Osmosis

RO system uses a membrane with small holes to push the water and block the scale forming chemicals such as calcium, magnesium, lead and more.

Installing water Conditioner of Softener equipment

Water softening equipment functions like water softeners, it is just bulk edition. Water softening equipment removes the stain causing minerals at the source before the contaminated water makes to your plumbing system.

These are some of the scale prevention techniques for your plumbing and fixtures but what about all those smallware that we use daily. Here is more in-depth sight about how to remove scale from our daily equipment:

Tap and faucets

Wrap bag soaked in vinegar around the tap for an hour and rinse it with water and dry it.

Shower head

Take off the shower head and soak it in white vinegar overnight. After this scrub it with a toothbrush or something similar and rinse it with water.

Shower doors

Get a white vinegar or wine container and spray it on shower door, leave it for a while and wipe it off.

Dishwasher

Once in every month add a cup of white vinegar to your dishwasher and run it through a cleaning cycle. Make sure no dishes are in there.

Washing machine

Add a gallon of white vinegar to machine and run it on cleaning cycle without any clothes. Repeat when needed.

Rubber bathmat

Soak it for an hour into white vinegar. Make sure you cover the entire mat properly. Then, scrub it with a toothbrush then rinse it off with warm water.

Coffee maker

Run a brewing cycle with water reservoir full of white vinegar. After this run three more brewing cycles with plain water to rinse the coffee maker.

Toilet tank and bowl

Add 3 cups of vinegar into the tank or bowl and scrub it thoroughly then rinse with warm water.

Sinks and tubs

Spray the scale surface with lemon juice or vinegar and leave it for a couple of hours then wipe it. Depending on types of minerals, you may be required to repeat the process until its completely gone.

While there is no significant health impact caused by hard water or scale, the cost of repairing and replacing plumbing fixtures comes with a huge price tag and can be an expensive affair. It is necessary for us to consider the precautionary measure to avoid them as much as we can. We should regularly checkup our plumbing, water surface and act immediately if we see scale build up.

We recommend installing a water Conditioner of Softener system in your household to overcome scale formation as it is the best and reliable method to remove scale forming minerals from tap water. This system neutralizes hard water and all the harsh minerals found in water and is also proven to be more efficient than any other traditional method. So, if scale formation has become an issue for you, this may be something for you to consider.