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Tap water defrost pluses and minuses of easy cleaning | Pre-treatment

Tap water defrost pluses and minuses of easy cleaning

The main drawback of flowing tap water is the excess of sulfites and hydro carbonates, magnesium and calcium salts, and iron. In everyday life, water that has an unpleasant flavor is called hard. You can determine if the water is hard or not by taking just one sip. If you add the residual chlorine content after obligatory disinfection, the liquid entering the apartment is unlikely to want to quench thirst.

Besides unpleasant taste and smell, tap water has another unpleasant property. The impurities contained in it can accumulate in the body and adversely affect the performance of internal organs, traces of salts are visible on the dishes, and household appliances is formed by limescale, which disables it.

Defrosting water - a sequence of actions

To get water of decent quality, many people use the methods available at home. The simplest of these methods is to defend tap water, which helps, under the influence of natural gravity, to precipitate suspended particles and get rid of the chlorine dissolved in the liquid.

The essence of the method of sedimentation is as follows:

  • a clean container is filled with tap water;
  • the vessel is closed and left alone for several hours;
  • for five or six hours at the bottom of the container deposited fairly large impurities, some heavy metal salts, oxides, and other impurities, and some chlorine is removed;
  • only the upper two-thirds of the constant water should be used, and the remainder should be poured out to get rid of un-settled harmful substances.

Tap water should not be subjected to sedimentation longer than this period, because it will begin the inevitable breeding of pathogenic flora, including bacteria dangerous to humans.

Safety of tap water

The undeniable advantage of this method is its simplicity and accessibility, and the disadvantages are much greater.

The water entering the network is centrally channeled through mechanical filters and a disinfection system, of which chlorination is part. But this is not the end of the way to the tap. The water takes a long journey through pipes, whose condition is not always perfect. Therefore, when you open the tap, instead of a transparent jet of water, you can see, for example, a brown liquid. The fault is the excess iron, but this is only a visible part of the iceberg of problems.

From the walls of dilapidated pipes, the water stream washes away not only rust particles, but also other dangerous compounds, viruses, bacteria, and pathogens. In addition, not all impurities are able to form sediment. An example of this is colloidal iron, which looks like a brown gel mass on the inner surface of water pipes. From such impurities, it is no longer possible to defend the tap water.

Increasing the efficiency of water sedimentation

Activated carbon, which absorbs harmful substances including pesticides and heavy metals, radon, and chlorine compounds, can help make water treatment more effective. These activated carbon filters increase the efficiency of the treatment and within a few hours, the water becomes drinkable.

 But the low retention capacity does not meet all human needs for clean water:

  • the process takes too long;
  • there's a high percentage of unused liquid;
  • there is no guarantee that all sources of danger will be neutralized.

Therefore, when it is necessary to use tap water as drinking water, it is much more efficient to use not sedimentation but more productive methods, such as pre-treatment.

The choice of pre-treatment over sedimentation

Leading manufacturers of water treatment equipment, offer efficient water treatment systems with modern multi-stage treatment.

Initial filtration of tap water allows to remove mechanical impurities from it and thus protect the existing equipment in the house, sanitary equipment and shut-off elements in the pipelines.

The second stage of water treatment ensures dosing and prevents mass lime deposits on the heating elements of home appliances and heaters.

The third stage is a fine finishing of tap water, which turns it into the drinking water of the highest quality.

Only the consistent use of all types of filters can produce the amount of completely safe drinking water needed for a comfortable life.

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