Water sustains life. But the same water can be very detrimental if not adequately clean and pure. Hence having either a reliable pure water source or a high-quality purification system is crucial. A pure water source is these days not always consistent, and the age-old practise of filtering and boiling water or treating it with alum to get clean drinking water is too time consuming in today’s fast paced jet age. Moreover, boiled and cooled water tastes insipid. Well, that’s where technology steps in with multitude purifications processes to give pure clean odourless drinking water within minutes, no matter what the water source.
‘Aqua-guard Reviva’ (Rs 12, 500/-) equipped with ‘reverse osmosis (RO) technology’ for areas with hard (ground) water supply ensure that all types of water (hard or saline) and water sources (even bore-well) can be made satisfactorily potable. The RO technology involves a semi-permeable membrane (with 0.0001 micron pore size) that diverts dissolved salts, pesticides, heavy metals, micro-organisms like bacteria and viruses, chemicals and other impurities to a ‘waste-water-outlet’, while pure water accumulates in a bowl for use (this process even eliminates the scaling on cooking vessels caused by heating of ground water).
The agent first checked the TDS (total dissolved salts) in our water source and then ‘recommended’ this product. Of course installing it was a big joke, we had three technicians come and two pieces replaced before it was functioning satisfactorily. The first techie actually broke a part inside and claimed the piece sent was faulty…not the best first impression.
I must admit the product once it started functioning was good, the water did taste nice and my water bottles and inside my pressure cooker for once had no build up of white deposits. With the storage tank containing about 8 lts of water, clean drinking water even during a power cut is no problem. Plus I need not have to get the municipal water supply, my ground water supply is now perfectly fine to use for everything.
The drawback I found was the wastage of water. For every glass of water at least half glass is wasted through the wastewater outlet. It is sad to see all that water go waste. And it has to be permanently connected to an electrical supply and water supply.