Advances in filtration technologies awfully advance aftertaste and baptize above above bottled baptize and acceptable countertop baptize filters
-- Perhaps it's alone fair to alarm us a nation of "bottle babies," because that Americans alcohol added baptize from bottles than any added nation, purchasing 60 actor bottles a day in 2007. Can one accusation us, though? On the face of it, what could action a added benign alternative? A lot, as it turns out.
Bottled water, commonly awash in bright artificial bottles, comes beneath blaze on several fronts these days. Not alone accept tests accurate that this artefact generally avalanche abbreviate of accustomed tap water, in agreement of contaminants, but the accomplishment and alteration of the bottles absorb millions of gallons of oil. Adding insult to injury, as abundant as 50% of the "empties" or 30 actor bottles a day end up communicable landfills as they bleed chemicals into the groundwater for the next 1,000 years.
Yet, as 75% of the baptize we absorb is abroad from home, we still charge a portable, ever-ready, antecedent of apple-pie water. But as absolutely as technology has bigger about every aspect of our lives, so has it appear to our accomplishment in the anatomy of beat filtration. So able and so carriageable are these new filtration systems that they about-face a 24-ounce, reusable hard-plastic alembic into a mini baptize analysis bulb that far exceeds any antecedent clarification arrangement in agreement of bearing great-tasting, apple-pie water. At far beneath amount than bottled water, this win-win band-aid even stands to about-face the course of bright artificial bottles littering the nation.
What you can't see can aching you:
At aboriginal glance, a bright artificial canteen abounding with clear-cut agua appears so healthy. A account of a abundance or berg on the characterization reinforces this image. A December, 2005, address by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) in San Francisco begin that tap baptize in 42 states was attenuated with added than 140 able chemicals that abridgement assurance standards. But one attending beneath a microscope reveals the accuracy about what lies aural the bottle.
As if what comes out of the faucet wasn't bad enough--by some accounts, the accident of blight a allotment of humans bubbler chlorinated baptize and its by-products is added than 44% college than a allotment of those who alcohol baptize that does not accommodate chlorine--the adjustment and administration of bottled baptize safety, in abounding cases, may be in actuality weaker than that for tap water. Up to 70 percent of all bottled baptize produced and awash aural the U.S. is absolved from FDA regulation. Akin to accepting the fox watch the hen house, a lot of assurance testing of bottled baptize is performed by the bottling companies themselves.
No surprise, then, that studies by the Natural Resources Defense Council begin that about one-third of activated bottled baptize brands abandoned an acknowledged accepted or exceeded microbiological-purity guidelines. Common contaminants included arsenic, constructed amoebic carcinogens and E. coli. bacteria, while 20% of the samples absolute neurotoxins and carcinogens such as styrene, toluene and xylene.
That's not the bisected of the problem, though. The bright artificial canteen that a lot of baptize comes in has a aphotic ancillary unto itself. Commonly referred to as PET (polyethylene terephthalate),
this actual poses the abeyant to aperture antimony--used in its manufacture--into the baptize it houses. This baneful metal can could cause gastrointestinal disorders, and its absorption aural baptize increases linearly with the continuance of acquaintance and stored temperature.
It's not just antimony we accept to fear, either. One 2003, Italian abstraction begin that the aggregate of di-2-ehtylhexyl phthalatean endocrine advocate and apparent animal carcinogen added in baptize afterwards nine months of accumulator in a PET bottle.
Earth aboriginal we'll debris the added planets later:
Who a allotment of us stops to counterbalance the amount to the ambiance as we Americans annually absorb 26 billion liters (2004) of bottled water? But if we accede that it takes added than 47 actor gallons of oil to aftermath the two actor bags of artificial baptize bottles anniversary year, and anniversary canteen requires about 5 times its aggregate in baptize to accomplish the plastic, some affinity of answerability should set in.
Then there's the burning of millions of gallons of gasoline ashen in alteration the artificial baptize bottles from the bottler to the retailer. The ecology accident even continues afterwards the fact, as the Container Recycling Institute appear that of the 14 billion baptize bottles awash in the U.S. in 2004, alone one-third were recycled. The added 66% concluded up in landfills.
Despite all this, it seems we're added than accommodating to pay for the advantage to alcohol attenuated baptize and adulterate the environment. The bottled baptize business is growing in the US by 8% -15% annually, admitting the actuality that at up to $5.00 per gallon, bottled baptize costs added than gasoline.
So from area comes the redemption?
Filters, the final frontier
While giving up a lot in accessibility and effectiveness, aboriginal iterations of the archetypal carbon-type baptize clarify accept done a yeoman's job of antibacterial baptize for years, up to a point. These acceptable carbon-type baptize filters administer to accommodate somewhat bigger tasting and beneath ambrosial baptize than tap, but that's not adage much. Aside from eliminating at atomic 96% of the chlorine in tap water, they aswell do a appealing acceptable job of convalescent aftertaste and odor, and removing such contaminants as sediment, benzene, mercury and lead. But that's about it.
That's not enough. As apparent by EWG and Natural Resources Defense Council reports, with 140 able chemicals already articular in city-limits tap water, abounding contaminants abide to blooper through. A contempo address from Ralph Nader estimated that accident even higher, advertence 2100 baneful chemicals adulterate our bubbler baptize supplies.
The advance in clarification out abounding of these added contaminants comes in the anatomy of a high-tech assemblage alleged the Ionic Adsorption Micron Filter, a tradename of Seychelle Environmental Technologies, Inc (SYEV). This San Juan Capistrano, CA-based aggregation developed the "micron" clarify accurately to abode the charge for bargain carriageable baptize filtration containers for arduous altitude throughout the world. The aggregation has already awash over two actor carriageable bottles to assorted barter like the International Red Cross, U.K. Army, apple missionaries, Child Rescue, the U.S. Marines and the Kenya Wildlife Service.
The micro-porous artificial anatomy of the proprietary Seychelle clarify contains bags of commutual omni-directional pores, anniversary one a minute two microns in admeasurement and abiding in a long, zig-zag configuration. Any contaminant that manages to clasp through the tiny openings have to run a disturbing aisle to get to the added side. Few, if any, accomplish it, as the clarify is abounding with several altered adsorbing media--the a lot of important accepting finely-granulated, crumb activated coconut. This different aggregate coordinates all processes of contaminant abridgement via adsorption, absorption, actinic bonding, chelation, and abyss filtration.
The achievement is great-tasting, apple-pie baptize that far exceeds that accessible from acceptable baptize filters, as the Seychelle clarify currently represents the alone carriageable baptize filtration arrangement able of up to 99.99% abridgement in all four accustomed areas of contamination:
A) Aesthetics--unpleasant aftertaste and odors, cloudiness, silt, sediment, chlorine, and chlorine by-products; B) Biological--harmful diminutive bacilli such as Cryptosproidium, Giardia, E-Coli and Anthrax; C) Chemical--industrial airy amoebic compounds, PCBs, detergents, chloroform, pesticides and others; and D) Dissolved Solids--including abundant metals like aluminum, asbestos, arsenic, cadmium, chromium 6, copper, advance and mercury. This blazon of clarify is aswell abnormally different in its adeptness to abolish blight causing Radon 222.
Of course, all of this capability could be for naught if it wasn't for the actuality that these filters are baby abundant to fit into a handy, simple to use carriageable bottle. Manufactured of number-4 (indicating it does not leach) low body FDA accustomed aliment brand polyethylene, these failing bottles can be re-used indefinitely--hence they additional the landfills of added waste. Sizes from 18 to 28 ounces axle the charge for baptize on the go.
In befitting with one of the capital advantages of all baptize filters, beat filters crop apple-pie baptize at a low amount of about 30 cents per gallon, far below that of bottled water.
A acceptable truth:
With the ability of today's beat water filters, Americans can now accept it all: great-tasting, ultra-clean baptize before that of bottled baptize or acceptable filters; portability to adore clean, advantageous baptize wherever; low cost; and absolute supply--just about-face on the tap and alter the clarify every 100-200 gallons (depending on use).
Best of all, technology has accustomed us a band-aid that in actuality allowances the environment. Landfill volumes will be reduced; beneath oil and baptize will be captivated as the use of PET bottles decreases; beneath gasoline will be austere in the accidental carriage of bottled water, while consumers save lots of money! Looks like we just ability be weaned from our disposable canteen baptize addiction afterwards all.
Contact Info:
Dick Parsons
Seychelle Environmental Technologies, Inc.
33012 Calle Perfecto
San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675
Phone: 949-234-1999
Fax: 949-234-1998.
web site: http://www.seychelle.com
