Water treatment systems: what is behind the choice, whom to turn to, general recommendations

Increasingly, people have to face the need to clean up the water they use - these are the current realities associated with environmental factors, as well as the peculiarities of water in different regions. Choosing the right equipment for water purification is not an easy task, requiring certain knowledge and understanding of this process, besides a huge number of manufacturers can confuse anyone who has encountered such a problem.

Water treatment systems

Water purification complexes can include several types of filter elements, each of which fulfills its specific function. Depending on the nature and intensity of water pollution, such filters are used:

• Rough cleaning (to remove various aqueous suspensions: particles of sand, clay, small stones, etc.);
• Deironing (there are several types: reagent, reagent, reagentless, with connection to the aeration system, with precise dosage of sodium hydrochloride) ;
• Water softening (remove hardness salts);
• Fine cleaning (removal of small residues that could get from other elements of water treatment);
• Ultraviolet and ozone sterilizers (kill pathogenic bacteria);
• Acidity correction system.

In addition, water treatment systems are of the following types in their design:

• Balloon;
• Cartridge;
• Membrane (reverse osmosis).

Balloon type cleaning systems have been widely used in water supply of country houses, and cartridge and membrane ones in urban apartments and offices. But in any case, the decision to install a particular system is taken individually by each consumer.

What factors influence the choice

To select the necessary water treatment systems for a country house, apartment or office, the first thing to do is chemical and bacteriological analysis of water. To do this, take samples of water and send them to a certified laboratory. This procedure can be done both independently and with the help of the company's specialists involved in the sale, installation, service and warranty maintenance of water treatment equipment.

After receiving the results of the water analysis, specialists will need to inspect your water supply and sewerage system, and also take into account what materials they are made of (metal, plastic), pipe diameters, characteristics of the water source (well, well, village water pipe) Periodicity of consumption (seasonal or permanent). Based on these data, they will develop technical documentation and select the necessary types of filters, control systems (manual or automatic) and other additional elements of the water treatment system.

A successful solution can be very close: if someone from your neighbors in your cottage or holiday village already has any water treatment system, you can get their feedback about the company that installed it, and if you want, you can ask for water for analysis from Their tap to ensure efficiency. This will be the way, if you have one source of water or identical results of its analysis.

Manufacturers of water treatment plants

The market of equipment for water treatment is presented as foreign (Ecosoft FK 1252, Aquachief, Filtromatic FDP, Raifil, etc.), and domestic systems (Aquafor, Barrier, Nortex, etc.). It should be noted that the water treatment system "Nortex Osmo" is a five-stage complex, which is designed to remove all commonly occurring contaminants from the water.

The main thing that you should pay attention to when selecting - the availability of certificates of product quality and serial number. It is not superfluous to check the water in the laboratory after installing the system to verify the quality of the equipment and its connection.

The water treatment system "Nortex": reviews

The Internet is full of reports of fraud, which is connected with the name "Nortex". The scheme is as follows. Under the guise of workers of managing organizations in multi-family houses people come and invite residents to meetings. There they ask about water quality and get the expected answers. Then they announce that they are acting according to the federal (communal, state, etc.) program to improve the quality of water and for the beneficiaries declare a discount on equipment and its installation. And the prices for water treatment systems vary depending on the prosperity of the regions.

Judging by the reviews of this equipment, it does not have factory numbers on the units, it does not have quality certificates, and it is suspected that under the guise of the domestic manufacturer low-quality Chinese filters are sold at inflated prices. Be carefull!