I was shocked when I first heard this, but the more I think about it the more it makes sense. Home water purifiers have been flying off the shelves recently due to the revelation that our water supplies are laced with dangerous pharmaceutical drugs, pesticides and numerous other modern chemicals.

Yet when you compare home water purifiers, the majority are ineffective or even harmful themselves. Not good !!!The truth is most people don't know how to compare systems and most companies selling them are just as uninformed or even worse unconcerned about the safety of our families and children.That brings about the duty you and I have to make the judgment. But how ?

First, bottled water is not necessarily purified water. usually its just as bad or worse than tap water ,in fact according to the National Resource Defense Council (NRDC) bottled water is often just repackaged tap water with little or no other processing done before being bottled. Some are in fact dangerously over filtered water,and we'll get back to why this can be dangerous later.I'm sure that like most of us you've probably heard he frightening news stories released by media authorities NBC, CNN and USA Today among others, stating that tap water, as stated above, has been proved to still be tainted with harmful chemicals that aren't filtered out before it gets to your sink.So its imperative that you compare home water purifiers by looking at how the water is filtered.

A single stage filter system while removing some contaminants, will miss other harmful contaminants. For instance an activated carbon filter while removing some dangerous contaminants,will do nothing to remove microbes and coliform among other undesirable contents.A comprehensive multi stage filter then is a must have to remove harmful disease causing contaminants and the chemicals that your local water treatment facility misses.

Reverse osmosis filters while affective for removing living contaminants, such as bacteria and pathogens, actually go too far and remove the minerals needed by our bodies that nature intended we ingest to maintain health and vitality. In other words they remove what is bad , but they also remove whats good.

While this is definitely not a desirable situation for anyone from a health standpoint, this type of filter can especially be dangerous for children and pregnant women due to their increased need for minerals to help in the formation of healthy bones and organs. This is why you don't want to give your family reverse osmosis filtered water regardless of whether its from a home water purifier or overly filtered bottled water .

So there you have it, this should start to clear the fog caused by the smoke and mirrors used to peddle home water purifiers. Now that you're armed with this information you have a starting point from which you can best compare home water purifiers and select the best one for your family's health and wellbeing.