The most common contaminants are: calcium and magnesium salts (so-called hardness), nitrates and nitrites, iron, pesticides, surfactants, chlorine and its compounds, organochlorines, organic impurities, bacteria. Boiling, widely used by the population, not only cannot improve the situation but often worsens it. For example, chlorine, which enters the water at the treatment plant during mandatory disinfection, forms extremely dangerous carcinogenic compounds – trichloromethanes – as a result of boiling.
At the same time, the water at the outlet of the city treatment plant is likely to meet state standards, albeit quite lenient ones. However, rusted multi-kilometer pipes overgrown with bacterial colonies quickly nullify all the efforts of treatment plants. It is obvious that in such circumstances, everyone must take care of providing themselves and their family members with clean, high-quality drinking water. And water purification is indispensable here.
Water purification in Kyiv, as well as in any other region of Ukraine, has its nuances. First, water intake here is mainly from the Dnipro basin, which is an open source susceptible to seasonal fluctuations in pollution. For example, in spring, when snow melts, human waste products, as well as surfactants, phenols, and nitrates, enter the river. The autumn period is also dangerous – the time of blooming of open sources, causing deterioration of organoleptic indicators – odor, color, turbidity.
The range of contaminants is so wide and diverse that it is difficult to recommend any universal purification systems. Currently, the most effective technology is reverse osmosis. Water purification by reverse osmosis will reliably rid you of mechanical impurities, hardness, iron, chlorine and organochlorines, bacteria, viruses, phenols, and improve organoleptic characteristics. You will get high-quality, clean, truly drinking water every day, regardless of the season and seasonal pollution.
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