Before we get into the benefits to consumers of reverse osmosis being used by a packaged drinking water plant in Odisha, it is worthwhile to consider what it exactly is.
What is Reverse Osmosis?
Reverse osmosis is considered to be one of the best ways by which you can turn ordinary water into safe drinking water. It reduces the impurities of water by passing it through a semipermeable membrane thus filtering the water. It is one of the safest options you have as it removes the bulk of contaminants that accompany ordinary water.
What Contaminants Does Reverse Osmosis Remove?
Though indeed Reverse Osmosis does not work by removing impurities by targeting them specifically, nonetheless it gets most of such impurities out by filtering out large even if it is a little bit large. The factor that determines the mineral and particles that are filtered are their sizes. But it must also be noted in this context that the efficiency of filtering out particles and minerals through reverse osmosis is such that the bulk of common contaminants are filtered to a percentage of 98% or greater. As a rule of thumb through reverse osmosis 99% of the following contaminants are removed:
- Dissolved Salts
- Particles
- Bacteria and
- Organic molecules amongst other contaminants that may potentially harm you.
The following list looks at the removal of contaminants in detail:
- Chromium 6 (Hexavalent) 98.3%
- Arsenic V (pentavalent) 99.0%
- Barium 98.8%
- Chromium 3 (Trivalent) 99.0%
- Copper 98.4%
- Cadmium 98.3%
- Selenium 97.9%
- Radium 226/228 98.8%
- Cysts › 99.99%
- Turbidity 98.7%
- Lead 96.8%
- TDS (Total Dissolved Solids) 93.10%
- Fluoride 93.8%
