Facts about your Drinking Water

Clean, pure drinking water – the elixir of life!!

Our body relies heavily on clean, pure water for general good health and wellbeing.It’s as important as the air that we breathe. The fact is however that the water we drink from our kitchen taps is not 100% water at all – it’s a weak solution of the chemicals that are added to make it “safe” to drink!

Chlorine is a well documented poison that is commonly added to our town water systems and regularly recommended for rainwater tanks. It tastes and smells awful and its disinfection by-products (trihalomethanes etc) are a particularly unpleasant group of chemical toxins.

One of the least conclusive parts and possibly the most concerning of the whole chlorine story is however ………”What potential effect does chlorine and its disinfection by-products have on our DNA – the genetic footprint that pre-determines who, what and how healthy we are and will be?” The answer is ….that we cannot be completely sure but it stands to reason though that there could well be some altering effect!

Recent additions of chloramines (combinations of chlorine + ammonia) instead of chlorine to many of the water supplies around Australia has replaced chlorine disinfection by products with an equally undesirable group of chloramine related chemical disinfection by-products. Generally speaking, chloramines levels are higher than their chlorine equivalents with the ammonia being added to the chlorine as a “stabiliser”.

Chlorine and chloramine additions are of course necessary to control bacteria levels in drinking water but both must be likened to the lunch wrap that is used to protect our sandwiches. Beneficial in keeping the sandwiches clean, but it definitely needs to be removed before the sandwiches are eaten. It’s the same with chlorine and chloramines – both very necessary but equally they should be removed before the water is consumed.

The good news is that there is an easy answer. Good quality drinking water filters/purifiers effectively “unwrap” the water that we consume – for both drinking and cooking.

Pristine Water Systems offers a wide range of water purification products and replacement cartridges for homes, boats, caravans and restaurants etc. Large or small, there are varieties that also remove high percentages of heavy metals while providing protection against cysts of the types that caused havoc in Sydney in the late 1990’s when Sydneysiders were warned nor to drink the water from their kitchen taps without boiling it.

Fluoride is perhaps the most controversial chemical that is added to an increasingly high percentage of drinking water supplies around Australia. Beneficial for some age groups it is clearly detrimental to others. Like chlorine, chloramine and heavy metals removal, Pristine Water Systems offer you a choice of drinking water purifiers that also effectively remove fluoride – the choice is yours.

If your choice is to drink rainwater, Pristine Water Systems also offers a range of rainwater filtration and disinfection systems that are tailor made to suit your needs.