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Drugs in Drinking Water
Drugs in Drinking Water: a National Problem Point of Use Household Water Treatment: a Viable Solution Make Water Recycling and Reuse Easier: Start Doing Your Part Today! Why?
Because America's Water Flows Through You.
Some Household Water Facts
- Water utilities have to treat 100% of the water we use in our homes, while we drink, cook (15.7%) and shower (16.8%) with only 32.5% of the water that flows through our homes. Laundry consumes 21.6% of the water used in homes. 54.1% of the water that you use and contaminate, you can easily clean.
We went shopping for products that would help us clean the water we use. Major retailers do not offer much in drinking water filters;, there are no household grease traps, no washing machine discharge filters and no household Wastewater treatment of any kind.
The Internet offers a much broader selection of water treatment options: filters and drinking water makers with an assortment of technologies for the removal of contaminates from your tap water, but not much in the way of water treatment for household discharge water. 54.1% of household discharge water is shower, kitchen sink and washing machine water. Washing machine water is the easy fix external trap and filter, will do the job. Shower: cleaning the incoming water is good for your health and the environment. The kitchen sink is a challenge because of cooking oils and fat. Grease traps are expensive because of shipping, installation and required maintenance. In line filter cartridges capable of trapping food oils and fats are 10-20 times as expensive as regular water filter cartridges and the housings are more costly as well. Kitchen grease and fats are the test of consumer commitment to clean water.
54.1% of household waste water is easily treated by the consumer. Faucet, shower and laundry water are all points of use at which filtration or traps may be used to reduce consumer contaminates before the contaminates enter the water system. There is no need for development of new technologies, as the technologies for home water treatment are available on the internet. For less than $500.00 the average home can install a laundry waste water filter, a kitchen grease trap, a shower filter, and drinking water filtration. The homeowner would effectively reduce the number of consumer contaminates in 54.1% of the household Wastewater before the Wastewater reenters the water utility system.
Laundry waste water filters, kitchen grease traps, shower filters, and drinking water filtration systems are easy installs and many sellers also offer install services.
The drugs and chemicals in drinking water issue may be a socially and chemically complicated issue, however the solution is simple: the water-responsible consumer
The water-responsible consumer should be supported with assistance from the water utilities. This assistance should be educational, technical and financial, through cost incentives.
Water utilities have to treat 100% of the water we use in our homes; while we drink, cook (15.7% )and shower (16.8%) with only 32.5% of the water that flows through our homes. Laundry consumes 21.6% of the water used in homes. 54.1% of the water that you use and contaminate, you can easily clean.
Water treatment on a household level has the available technology to reduce much of the contaminates in the water of the water system on the counter top, at the faucet or shower head and whole-house systems.
A pro-active consumer can start today, instituting permanent changes in lifestyle and simple technological changes easily as economics permits. According to Consumer Reports, there are household water treatment systems that are effective. Consumer household point of use water treatment systems as a means of treating public water makes sense with todays use of recycled waste water. Wastewater facilities infrastructure modernizing to deal with these previously undetectable water contaminates is expensive and has long start up times.
Water filter usage is simple and easy to start today. There are 407 water utilities serving over 100,000 people. A 30 day consumer drive with cost incentives and rebates can get 100,000 household point of use water treatment systems installed. Consumers and water utilities need to share cost and responsibilities in the American Drinking Water Crisis.
Consumer responsibility: the time has arrived.
Consumer responsibility: the time has arrived.
The same incentives that are given to the consumer for solar should immediately be extended to pro-active water responsible consumers.
Spread the word become a water-responsible consumer and do something proactive today. How to get started
House effluent water treatment using influent filters
- kitchen grease trap the challenger
- Kitchen grease and fat are a challenge to any water system.
- Click to see how little it would cost to install a grease trap.
- Laundry waste water filters clean 21.6% of your water.
- In the city, on a well and or septic? You can make a difference by the pound with a laundry waste water filter
- shower filters clean 16.8% of your water
- KDF Shower Filter for iron, lead, heavy metals, chlorine and more,
Culligan TK-2 Water Test Kit
Water System Sizes in the USA
By Population Very Small
500 or lessSmall
501-3,300Medium
3,301-10,000Large
10,001-100,000Very Large >100,000
Total Total # system 126,438 19,204 5,069 3,761 407 154,879 Source: US EPA FY2008 Drinking Water Factoids EPA Drinking Water Contaminant Candidate List and Regulatory Determinations Chemicals from Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products