Water Purification: Harmful Chemicals & Possibilities

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Water purification systems do not remove all harmful chemicals from drinking water; they can only reduce impurities to acceptable levels. Micromembrane filters, which are capable of achieving near absolute purity, are not commonly used for tap water unless there are severe health concerns associated with its consumption. The effectiveness of purification methods depends significantly on the definition of "harmful" chemicals.

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Do they remove all the harmful chemicals in drinking water, is it even possible?
 
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No, not all. The best one can do is to reduce the impurities below some level and stop worrying about them.
 
depends on what you define as harmful.

apparently the really fine micromembrane filters available today can obtain near absolute pure water... although this is never used for tape water unless people died drinking the water by normal filteration. :wink:
 

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