The safe way to use municipal water
Shower filter with Pre-Filter in a bathroom.
Note that the chrome pieces and the shower head are for demonstration only and are not supplied by Gomax. You can use your existing shower arm or purchase a suitable shower arm at your local plumbing supplier store. Shower heads are available to consumer in an ever growing variety. Your local home improvement center has shower filters. Their prices can vary from $2.00 to $500 and provide differing shower experiences, which is a matter of personal preference.
Pre-Filter as it is delivered to you. A little Teflon tape for sealing is only needed on your shower arm. Best of all - you do not need any tools to assemble the Pre-Filter and Shower Filter to your shower arm.
The Pre-Filter can be taken apart for cleaning. Just unscrew the clear dome and remove the stainless steel strainer. Because of the material the strainer lasts many year, and unlike similar strainers does not require replacement The strainer may have sediments, rust, etc on its inside. Clean with soap or a mild bleach solution. Then reassemble.
Benefits and Shortcomings of chlorine
* Makes municipal water disease free.
* Generates disinfection by-products, that can cause miscarriages, birth defects and pancreatic and colon cancer .
At one time or another, while drinking a glass of tap water or taking your morning shower, you noticed the smell of chlorine that is used to disinfect your municipal water.
For chlorine to be effective against microorganisms in your water system, it must be present in sufficient quantity and it must have a sufficient amount of time to react. This reaction time is usually 30 minutes. To ensure continued protection against harmful organisms, a certain amount of chlorine must remain in the water after treatment. This remaining chlorine is known as a residual chlorine and it is what you smell in your shower or while drinking tap water.
While the chlorine in our drinking water and/or shower is effective in killing potentially deadly microorganisms, it can also be harmful in that it can damage the cells in our bodies. Chlorine can combine with natural organic compounds, such as your skin or internal organs, and reacts to form trihalomethanes (THMs). THMs are carcinogenic by-products of the disinfection process.
These by-products have been linked to serious health problems such as miscarriages, birth-defects, and different types of cancer.
In Chesapeake, Virginia, there was a billion dollar lawsuit, which demonstrated a link between miscarriages and tap water due to chlorination by-products.
