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Just What is a Reverse Osmosis Station?
Thu 01 Feb 2007 - 08:24
Just What is a Reverse Osmosis Station?
By Rich Fuller
What is reverse osmosis? Well the word osmosis means that the liquid will actually seek in a living cell and the concentration tends to become one. It would be like placing a straw in a newly open can of soda. The pressure will push some of the soda into the straw without even having to take a drink. That's why sometimes your soda will leak from the straw; the osmosis pressure is making the level in the straw increase. It's the same reason why you can't drink seawater.
What the salt does in reverse osmosis
The salt in the water will actually draw out all the moisture in your cells and you become extremely dehydrated and can die from it. Reverse osmosis is a way to filter out salt and other contaminates from the water to make it drinkable for others. The process of reverse osmosis needs a lot of pressure for the salt to separate from the water and it can take a lot of time to do so.
When it comes to using the reverse osmosis system to clean your water for drinking, it is among four or five stages in which your water has to go through to be cleaned. Some homes have a portable reverse osmosis system that does not run on electricity, but gravity. The gravity will push the water through many filters so that it can be cleaned.
The filter will last about seven or so years until they may need replaced.
Most people who use this system like in rural areas where they live away from the city and public water systems. Usually the water that is filtered comes from well, rivers, or ocean waters. You may need to have a reverse osmosis processor in your home if your local water is polluted or not up to par.
Clean neighborhood water
When reverse osmosis systems are used to clean neighborhood water, they will remove even the smallest organisms that will cause sickness and harm to others. However, they don't always get the bacteria or organisms out and that is why you will find that a UV light will follow many reverse osmosis systems.
The reverse osmosis system has saved many lives. Recently, nations where fresh water is rare other than from the ocean, the reverse osmosis has allowed them to use the ocean water by taking out the salt and other imperfections of the water so that it can be used for drinking, bathing, and farming while preserving the country's energy.
Learn more about reverse osmosis for water on our site. You'll also find other information such as residential water treatment and water treatment systems. eWaterTreatmentSystems.com is a comprehensive resource for water treatment with information on reviews, reverse osmosis and how it works.
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