How Can Drinking Water Stations Guarantee Against Contaminated Drinking Water?
More and more, when you walk into an office or where people gather, you find in a corner a drinking water station open to public use. Some of these stations, sometimes called bars, include a big plastic bottle to be refilled at the water supply depot, others have installed filters that process the city supplied water.
Why not a simple faucet on a sink? Why this expensive setup to quench the thirst of regular or occasional visitors?
The reason is to be found in disturbing reports that inform that sometimes, somewhere, contaminated and dangerous drinking water was being supplied to unaware users by the local municipal distribution system.
It is true that it is not always so nor everywhere, but the fear from dangers to the health, especially of children and aged persons, induces whoever cares to take precautions to prevent any risks.
It is understandable that owners of offices or stores and people responsible for public places where drinking water is made available to whomever needs it, want to be sure that nobody will sue them for negligence in supplying water possibly unfit for drinking.
Which solution is adopted is a matter of personal preference and of costs at any given time and place. While big refillable plastic bottles are less noxious to the environment than personal drinking water plastic bottles to be discarded after use, the quality of the drinking water supplied may still be questionable or not constant in time, although it should not be contaminated.
It seems however that a good filter or a battery of suitable filters should provide better quality assurance, provided the filter cartridges are changed according to the schedule required by the manufacturer.
In a public place you would not know how often they change the filter cartridges unless this information is displayed for all to see. A visible note with this information should be the minimum requirement for having confidence in the particular drinking water station.
At home the situation is different, everybody is responsible for correctly maintaining his/her own drinking water filter or purifier. Certain suppliers offer to their customers, who subscribe to the service, obtainable at a discount, to send them just in time the replacement filter cartridges as a reminder. It seems a good practice to be looked for.
A good drinking water filter at home is always a sound and wise investment.
Related Tags: filters, contamination, purifiers, drinking water stations, water bar, cartridge change schedule display
Elia E. Levi is a retired engineer.
After researching the subject of drinking water quality and of home water filters and purifiers, he set up a website where he proposes the results of his inquiry for all to consider, to reach independently their conclusions.
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