Ultraviolet (UV) Light is Purifying Water and Saving Lives.

(1/08/03)

According to the United Nations, an estimated 1 billion people do not have access to clean, fresh water. Each year, 5 million people die of waterborne illnesses. The world's growing population will make the problem worse. And guess what? It is not just the Third World that is facing this issue!

An Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) release contained information stating that, no matter where you live in the U.S., there is likely to be some toxic substance in your groundwater. Indeed, the EPA estimates that one in five Americans representing 25% of the nation's drinking water systems consume tap water that violates EPA safety standards.

Substances that are added to drinking water such as chlorine can form toxic compounds-such as trihalomethanes, or THMs-and have been linked to certain cancers. The EPA has established enforceable standards for more than 100 contaminants. However, other studies have identified that there are more than 2,110 contaminants in the nation's water supplies.

"The excitement in Ultraviolet (UV) Water Purification for me," says John Malley, a member of the University of New Hampshire (UNH) Environmental Research Group, "is that we have the chance to improve the microbiological safety of drinking water for hundreds of millions of people around the world and save the public billions of dollars while doing it." "Cryptosporidium is hard to filter out, and chlorine has no effect on it," notes Malley. "If you put it in a bottle of bleach for a week and take it out, it still makes a mouse sick."

Ultraviolet (UV) Water Purification treatment is one of several technologies that the Environmental Protection Agency recommends to communities to meet the 2002 new, more stringent drinking-water standards.

UV light is not only effective, but also very efficient. It can disinfect water at about one-tenth the cost of other treatment methods, in part because the equipment is compact. Ultraviolet (UV) Water Purification technology has been used in Europe for about 75 years. UV treatment of drinking water in the USA dates to about 1992.

Biozone Scientific, a world-wide leader in UV air purifying equipment, has developed an advanced water purifyer that combines their FusionFilter™ with powerful UV light technology. Models are avaibale for the home and provide an ulimited supply of clean drinking water.

Units are avaiable for countertop mount and undersink instalation. Both feature seperate chrome drinking water faucet and all instalation hardware.

Introductory pricing of $199 per unit is available on the web at www.breathepureair.com

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