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What Can I Add to My Tap Water to Make it Taste Better?

 
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Gordon Hall

If you’re wondering, what can I add to my tap water to make it taste better? You must not have a home purifier. If you do, maybe it’s not working that well or it could have been the wrong choice form the beginning.

Of course, some people just like a little more flavor, even when they have an effective purifier that gets rid of the bad tasting contaminants. The purifier brand that I like also makes glass containers to store in the fridge and carry with you to work and when travelling. They suggest that you add some fresh fruit slices to purified water and then store it in a tightly covered glass container over night.

In the morning you have a tasty beverage. Personally, I like the way that my water tastes, without the fruit. But, chilling it makes it taste even better. They say that’s a “brain” thing. Colder water is less likely to have bacteria, so we are “programmed” to like it cold.

A while back, I wanted to know, what can I add to my tap water to make it taste better. The environmental group that I belong to had asked us to stop drinking so many bottled beverages. They suggested that we get a home purifier, because of the chlorine and THM content in our area.

Chlorine is often responsible for bad tasting tap-water, but THMs are tasteless. They don’t have much of an odor either. But, exposure to them through drinking and showering increases our lifetime risk of cancer. With all of the cancer cases in my family, I try to avoid any cancer-causing chemical that I can.

The average purifier reduces chlorine, except for reverse osmosis, which does not remove chemicals, at all, but it doesn’t include the filtering media necessary to trap THMs. I did some comparative shopping and the only two brands of under the counter units that removed THMs differed greatly in price.

I don’t like the taste of chlorine, but I wanted to stop buying bottled AND avoid exposure to THMs, but I didn’t want to pay nearly $800 to do. That’s when I started learning about what can I add to my tap water to make it taste better, because I wanted a cheaper solution.

I found that the only reason for the excessive price was a reverse osmosis step. If I had chose reverse osmosis, I would have really had to find out what can I add to my tap water to make it taste better.

You see reverse osmosis de-mineralizes and minerals like sodium and potassium are responsible for taste. De-mineralized, like distilled, is tasteless, which in the brain converts to “flat or stale”.

Now, the other system cost less than $150, which I felt was very affordable. The above counter units cost even less. They also improve the mineral content by exchanging traces of copper and lead for sodium and potassium. That’s why I don’t have to wonder, what can I add to my tap water to make it taste better. It tastes great, just like it is.

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Gordon Hall is fervent about enabling you and everyone to live a healthy lifestyle, and is an ardent reviewer of Water Purification Systems. Visit his website now at : http://www.water-safe-and-pure.com to discover which Water Purification Systems Gordon recommends after far ranging comparisons.
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