Treating Contaminated Water

How do we reduce the contaminants in drinking water is a question that nobody seems too able to easily answer. Decade after decade, our reservoirs are filled with carcinogenic and toxic contaminants. We may never be able to remove them all, but we can decrease the number of contaminants that go into the water supply. It will take a very long time before the current contaminants are reduced to nothing.

What is needed now is a way to cut down the pollutants in our drinking water and reduced the impact on our health. According to studies, there are over 80,000 toxic contaminants and more than 2,000 have been identified as carcinogens. This is pretty scary. We need have an effective means to remove these pollutants from the water coming into our homes.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the water treatment facilities know what is required to reduce our water’s contamination, but it is an almost impossible task. The truth is that the systems, which are used to filter your drinking water, are out-dated and not designed for removing the types of contaminants, currently present in our water.

The treatment facilities do two important things.

The removal of certain minerals and the chlorine disinfection process are absolute necessities to protect us from to waterborne disease. Unfortunately the porous membrane filters used during the demineralization process is incapable of keeping the flow of chemicals at bay and therefore offer you no protection from them at all.

The knowledge is present on how to reduce drinking water contamination. The technology to remove as much as 99.99% of the contaminants in our water is available. The money simply is not available to update the treatment facilities with the combination of advanced filters that are needed in order to keep your water safe.

The good news is that there really is a solution.

End the wars. Terminate foreign aid. Get rid of all of the politicians and elect people who genuinely care about the American people. Use the billions or maybe even trillions of dollars saved to address the issues that are really important.

There is no money for the major overhaul that the treatment facilities desperately need, but there is a counter top or under counter drinking water purifier that you can be installed in your home. With this type of system, every drop of water filtered puts fewer contaminants in your glass and fewer contaminants back into the environment.

By using of one of these filters, you can reduce drinking water contamination. This type of system allows you to perform the work that the treatment facilities are incapable of doing.

Water Treatment: Principles and Design
by: MWH
publisher: Wiley, published: 2005-02-01
ASIN: 0471110183
EAN: 9780471110187
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Treatment of gasoline-contaminated waters by advanced oxidation processes [An article from: Journal of Hazardous Materials]
by: E.R.L. Tiburtius
publisher: Elsevier
ASIN: B000RR7NWO
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In this study, the efficiency of advanced oxidative processes (AOPs) was investigated toward the degradation of aqueous solutions containing benzene, toluene and xylenes (BTX) and gasoline-contaminated waters. The results indicated that BTX can be effectively oxidized by near UV-assisted photo-Fenton process. The treatment permits almost total degradation of BTX and removal of more than 80% of the phenolic intermediates at reaction times of about 30min. Preliminary investigations using water contaminated by gasoline suggest a good potentiality of the process for the treatment of large volumes of aqueous samples containing these polluting species. Heterogeneous photocatalysis and H”2O”2/UV system show lower degradation efficiency, probably due to the heterogeneous character of the TiO”2-mediated system and lost of photonic efficiency of the H”2O”2/UV system in the presence of highly colored intermediated.

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Treating Contaminated Water

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