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Understanding How Your System Operates
Every day, thousands of billions of tons of water evaporate from the earth’s surface.
As the heat of the sun evaporates the water and draws it from the earth’s surface into the
atmosphere, many impurities are left behind. The water vapor eventually cools to form
clouds and then falls back to earth as precipitation.
On its way from the clouds to your faucet, soft rain water dissolves and absorbs a part of al-
most everything is touches.
Falling rain cleans the air as it falls. Unfortunately the impurities that were removed from the
air have not left; they have just been relocated through the water onto the ground. These
gases and other airborne contaminants can cause undesirable tastes, colors, and odors in
water.
Rain falls onto the ground, collecting sediments like rust, sand, and even algae. The water
eventually nds its way to a surface water supply or percolates downward and collects in
an aquifer. As it percolates through the earth, the water can absorb hardness minerals, iron,
heavy metals, radioactivity, organic contaminants, and many other complex elements and
compounds.
Water can also collect numerous harmful man-made chemical impurities during this cycle.
These synthetic chemicals are generally odorless, colorless, and tasteless; and can some-
times be life-threatening. The statement “my parents drank this water for 50 years and it nev-
er hurt them”, is no longer a valid excuse to not be concerned with water quality. There has
been a massive global increase in exposure to chemical waste over the last 50 years.
The scientic and medical community has not had adequate time or budget to study the
long-term health effects of the more than 70,000 harmful chemicals that can be found in use
today.
Approximately 1,000 new synthetic chemical compounds are entering the industrial market-
place each and every year. Precipitation falls upon commercial and municipal dump sites,
toxic waste sites, industrial refuse depots, military test sites, leach elds, mining operations,
farmer’s elds, etc. where it dissolves minute amounts of the toxic chemicals present and
carries them along into water sources.
In 1986, the United States Government estimated that close to two percent of the nation’s
ground water supplies were moderately polluted by sources such as hazardous waste dumps
and leaking landlls.
Industrial wastewater is also a major source of water contamination. Chemicals that are con-
sidered generally acceptable in controlled amounts may react with other elements and/or
chemicals to form new compounds that could be highly carcinogenic.
Chlorine is one of the best-publicized examples. It reacts with organic matter in water and
forms deadly trihalomethanes.
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