Reverse Osmosis

by | Mar 23, 2021 | Water

Before You Buy, What Kind of Water Filter Do You Need – Reverse Osmosis or Microfiltration?

Reverse osmosis is basically the process of separating contaminated water into clean and unclean water using a semi-permeable membrane to filter out waterborne bacteria and contaminants.

Ideal for purifying seawater and brackish water, it has been extensively used in industry and smaller units for boating or fishing trips. Purification is achieved by forcing the water, under pressure, through the membrane and effectively dividing it into a pure waterside and a contaminated waterside.

For best reverse osmosis water purification results, several stages are required – 2 levels of sediment filter, 1 activated carbon filter (it’s essential to remove chlorine as it damages the unit), the reverse osmosis cartridge filter, ideally followed by an ultra-violet lamp to disinfect any remaining microbes.

The reverse osmosis membrane needs to be flushed reasonably regularly to stop the formation of scale, and very often, pre-filtering by a water softening agent, as well as a carbon-based product to reduce chlorine, may be required. While reverse osmosis drinking water systems are effective against most microorganisms, they may not filter out protozoa such as Cryptosporidium.

In independent testing, on a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 is the most effective, ( see comparison chart) the microfiltration membrane scored a 1, while the reverse osmosis water filter scored a 2. That one place could mean the difference between allowing a small amount of contamination through or none at all.

As a point of vital interest – alongside the results for reverse osmosis, bottled water purchased in developing countries scored a 3, possibly due to two critical risks with bottled water purchased overseas

  1. the risk the water has come from local water supplies, either newly bottled or an old bottle refilled, and
  2. the proven build-up of bacteria in water bottles that have been transported long-distances and in high temperatures.
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It’s Vital to Know Which Water Filters/Purifiers Are the Safest

It’s Vital to Know Which Water Filters/Purifiers Are the Safest

by | Mar 23, 2021 | Water

It’s Vital to Know Which Water Filters Are the Safest

While domestic tap water in most Western countries is regarded as of a reasonable standard, there have been several incidents from Miami to London, to Sydney, and back to the U.S.A. when drinking water filters and treatment went horribly wrong and contaminants entered the water treatment systems, requiring residents to boil drinking water, and resulting in illness for many.

Water filters in the home are essential to safeguard the health and cleanse water of chlorine and stray contamination. However, it is essential when camping or hiking, or traveling to many developing nations that it’s essential to carry the best drinking water filter possible.

How Do You Know Which Personal Water Filter Is The Best?

For starters, you want a water filtration system that removes bacteria, e-coli, pseudomonas, staphylococcus, total coliforms, and parasites. You also want a light-weight and compact portable water filtration system. The Sure Aqua products more than meet these needs.

 

Spectrum

The graph below shows the size of the molecules when we look at water characteristics.

Molecule Spectrum

Which is the Best Water Filter?

When researching the type of water filter that would best suit your needs, you will, at some stage, compare the best water filters.

This does not need to be a complicated task. On the contrary, keep it simple. Look at the situation why you need the best water filter. Whether it be for travel, disaster preparedness, hiking, camping, Aid, survivalist, to eliminate bottled water, chronically ill (the list is long) – you need to make a checklist and prioritize it for the situation.

The areas to look at (there will be different emphasis depending on the use) – safe for all to use, chemical-free, long shelf life, free of spare parts, robust, gives instant access to drinking water, lite weight, easy to use, and carry, the flow stops when at the limit of filtration, performance, compare product guarantees. 

Truly know what you are purchasing – compare the best water filters.

It’s Vital to Know Which Water Filters Are the Safest

In testing carried out across a range of portable water treatment options, 11 methods of drinking water filtration were tested.

The least effective drinking water filtration was through granulated activated carbon and ozonation. Best performing were solid carbon block filters, membrane water filtration, and plain boiled water, while options such as chemical disinfection, ultraviolet treatment, reverse osmosis, distillation, and bottled water were mid-range.

Comparative Rating of Filtration, purification, and Technologies

The below table provides some guidelines on how effective the technologies are for a portable device when traveling, camping, or required in a disaster or emergency. This assessment takes into the following parameters;

  • Chemical
  • Speed of access to water
  • Portability
  • Ease of use
  • Bacteria removal
  • Cysts removal
  • Virus remove

Filtration Purification Method

Description

Performance (1-5)
5 being the best
Granulated Activated Carbon

Water passes over the carbon with a slightly electro-positive charge

Distillation
The heating of water to its vapor point
Ozonation
Super oxygenation of water
Reverse Osmosis
A separation process using a semi-permeable membrane
KDF Resin
A filter containing a cartridge filled with zinc and copper to create electrolysis
Ultraviolet
The use of the light process to filter the water
Solid Carbon Block Filters
Combined Carbon Absorption
Membrane Filters
Hollow fiber filters – Portable and commercial water filtration devices
Membrane Filters -Ultra
Hollow fiber filters – Portable and commercial water filtration devices
Chemical Disinfection
The use of chlorine or iodine tablets
Boiled water
Boiling of water in a pot to 100 deg C (except high altitudes)

Of the top performers, Sure Aqua products water filters are the safest, most effective option.

You see, most portable water filtration systems use chemicals to purify drinking water. Iodine is one of the main filtration mediums used. However, there are serious reasons for either not using iodine filters at all or just short term.

Children and pregnant or nursing women, those with thyroid disorders or immune deficiencies are recommended not to use iodine-based filters, and no one should use them long-term. The carbon water filtration option cannot filter certain bacteria such as e-coli and pseudomonas, and environmental care must be taken in disposing of both options while boiling water the required length of time is just plain inconvenient in most circumstances.

Sure Aqua products has been independently tested effective in removing essentially all bacteria including cryptosporidium, and giardia.

For personal portable water filters that are kind on the environment, your health, and your budget, the Sure Aqua products drinking water filtration system comes in the clear winners

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Why Risk Gut-Wrenching Water Poisoning When It’s so Easy to Avoid

Why Risk Gut-Wrenching Water Poisoning When It’s so Easy to Avoid

by | Mar 23, 2021 | Travel, Water

An estimated 40% of travelers fall sick with gastro poisoning, losing anywhere up to 4 days from their holiday. Imagine being on your dream holiday and coming down with diarrhea, vomiting, and severe cramps – imagine if it was one of your children – all because you didn’t avoid risky foods or use a simple Sure Aqua products water filter.

Wide-Spread Water Poisoning Issues

Healthy drinking water is vital to our health. Each country has its own protection authority monitoring drinking water quality, but how effective these agencies can be in detecting and removing pollution in water systems depends on the resources made available to them, environmental issues, and the level of industrial and farming controls.

More People dieing form water diseases than Covid-19

what water product to choose while traveling

Water poisoning very often comes from PBTs (persistent, bioaccumulative toxic chemicals), possibly more commonly known as the organochlorines – industrial agents including the extremely harmful dioxins.

 Water poison can originate from farming and suburban run-off in the form of pesticides and other hazardous chemicals, while asbestos fibers, heavy metals, organic and inorganic sediment, and water lead poisoning are all severely damaging the environment and threatening our health.

 It’s not only man-made substances that cause poisoned water sources. That clean, flowing stream you’re drinking from could contain naturally occurring contaminants that are poisonous to our bodies, such as e-coli and parasitic cysts.

 Dysentery is worldwide but plagues developing countries. Spread by poor hygiene and through water poisoned by human sewage, the bacilli penetrate and ulcerate the intestine, causing debilitating blood-stained pussy diarrhea.

Sources of Healthy Drinking Water

Though bottled water may first spring to mind, when even the World Health Organization is warning of possible health complications from the transportation and storage of bottled water*, you have to sit up and take notice.

In Western countries, while tap water is generally healthy, environmental factors such as drought or flooding, or mishap at the water filtration plant, or pipe corrosion, may result in poisoned water. It’s not unheard of for the residents of even significant cities to have to boil their water due to parasitic infiltration.

In one major U.S. city, reportedly 400,000 residents became ill through swallowing Cryptosporidium oocysts. From the oocysts, the parasites emerge, as with Giardia cysts, to live and reproduce inside the small intestine causing severe, diarrhea, vomiting, cramps, and fever.

Sure Aqua Water Filtration is 10 Times Finer

Sure Aqua filters out e-coli, parasitic protozoa, and other forms of bacterial poison. Hot water and brackish water are the only exceptions for not using the Sure Aqua products.

The Sure Aqua products are so effective because the microfiltration membrane is 10 times finer than the smallest microbe and for the virus’s products 5 times smaller.  It provides an excellent state of mind knowing the drinking water is safe and high quality and gives you confidence  as you travel overseas or go camping in your own home.

 Why would you let water-based poisoning ruin your holiday when it’s so easy to avoid?

 

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Portable Water Filters-Why Do I Need One?

Portable Water Filters-Why Do I Need One?

by | Mar 23, 2021 | Water

Why Do You Need a Portable Water Filters and Purifier?

More of us – around 50 million each year in fact – are traveling from every corner of the world to every other corner of the world. Sometimes it’s backpacking or hiking going to out of the way places with inadequate water sanitation, sometimes it’s on a business trip where time is tight, stress is high, and you don’t have time to look after your health, sometimes it’s as a family with little mouths to watch, sometimes it’s to low-risk destinations where you do everything right but still come down sick with diarrhea, vomiting, and disappointment. Most of is caused by water.  A portable water filter and purifier is ideal carry with you to ensure you avoid this tragedy.

Not all water cleaning methods are the same

Interesting Water Illness Facts

If you do, you’re certainly not alone, and the stats are pretty scary:

  • Around 50% of travelers fall sick to some degree when traveling
  • Of these, around 40% experience diarrhea
  • 18% lose one precious day to illness
  • 4% go down sick for 4 or more days

Why take the risk! Sure Aqua filters and purifiers slip into your pocket/backpack to go anywhere and provide filtered water in any situation – it’s an essential health precaution when you travel and at home.

Sure Aqua water purifying products are the perfect personal water filters to protect against waterborne bacteria and protozoa that are standard worldwide in water sources, lakes, dams, and streams. In developing nations, these contaminants are frequently in both the drinking water and ice, increasing the needs and uses for a constant water filtration source.

A Sure Aqua portable water filters are lightweight, portable, and safe drinking device specially designed to remove harmful bacteria from water. It’s easy to use by simply drinking through the device you have chosen. Filtration is instant – no waiting 30 minutes to work or for the odor to dissipate as with chemical alternatives.

This personal portable water filtration system does not use any added harmful chemicals. It is the only product of its kind that can remove up to 99.9999% of bacteria such as e-coli and staphylococcus. It also removes Cryptosporidium and Giardia continuously to the end of the product’s life without change parts.

 

Chemical-Based Water Purification Can Be Harmful

Of the water purification devices available, the majority use some form of chemical to remove contaminants from water. There are many instances where this is not safe for individual users and definitely not for prolonged periods for any user.

Harmful chemicals such as iodine can trigger Grave’s Disease and adversely affect those with thyroid disorders or iodine sensitivities. It is also highly recommended that it should not be taken by pregnant or breast-feeding women or by children. Medical advice is that chemical water filters used for more than 3 weeks could potentially harm the thyroid gland.

On the other hand, Sure Aqua products are totally chemical-free and are safe for anyone of any age and in any state of health to use on an on-going basis.

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Contaminated Water

Contaminated Water

by | Mar 23, 2021 | Environment, Water

How contaminated water can cause cancer and gastrointestinal illness

Water contamination is a serious issue that causes thousands to die every year. The causes [of water contamination are wide and varied, meaning anyone can be affected, and there is a wide range of effects.

The most dramatic of these effects is cancer. Several water contaminants have been shown to cause cancer, and unfortunately, many are expected.

One typical example is asbestos. Asbestos is a naturally occurring fibrous mineral. It has been mined to be used in thousands of products because it is incredibly resistant to heat and chemicals. Unfortunately, asbestos can lead to highly contaminated water. This is usually the result of industrial wastewater or the gradual erosion of materials that contain asbestos, such as concrete pipelines, in water supply systems.

More People dieing form water diseases than Covid-19

Asia, old woman with grandchildren

Other chemicals and minerals that can cause cancer when ingested through contaminated water include chlordane, PCB, radium, radon, toxaphene, trihalomethanes, uranium, and volatile organic compounds. Of course, there’s no need to swear off water altogether. These contaminants are not harmful in very small doses and can be easily avoided with a good water purification system.

Less severe but more common are instances of gastrointestinal illness as the result of contaminated water. The most common contaminants to cause gastrointestinal illnesses are cryptosporidium, giardia, and E.coli. Contaminated water containing cryptosporidium, giardia, or E.coli is usually the result of sewage pollution, often carried into the water supply by precipitation.

Cryptosporidium is a single-celled parasite that inhabits the intestines of both humans and animals. Those who have consumed contaminated water containing cryptosporidium will have diarrhea for up to two weeks. Although this is unpleasant, it is only dangerous for people who are already in a vulnerable physical condition, especially anyone who is pregnant or has HIV, AIDS, or cancer.

Giardia is the other most common gastrointestinal illness. Like Cryptosporidium, giardia also causes contaminated water through the feces of humans and animals. Drinking contaminated water containing giardia causes giardiasis, which is a common cause of diarrhea.

The third and most serious common cause of gastrointestinal illness as the result of contaminated water is E.coli. Although there are numerous harmless types of E.coli, the strain 0157:H7 causes several deaths each year in North America alone.

Like cryptosporidium and giardia, E-coli also contaminates water as the result of feces. Between two and seven percent of all people infected with E.coli experience hemolytic uremic syndrome, a condition that destroys red blood cells and leads to kidney failure.

Hemolytic uremic syndrome is most common in children under the age of five and the elderly. The size of the harmful E.coli strain is minute (it is only 0.5 to 3 microns), making it too small for many water filters to catch. All SureAqua products are effective in filtering out E.coli.

 Cancer and gastrointestinal illnesses are not the only effects of contaminated water. Contaminated water can also lead to liver and kidney damage.

To avoid getting sick from contaminated water, make sure you always have access to safe drinking water by investing in a good water purification system.

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