Choosing a Water Treatment System
While there are many technologies out there, each one is effective for a specific water contamination concern. No single treatment technology works for all. So, when you’re selecting and applying a water treatment system, use great care to make sure it is the right one for your particular situation. Let’s examine some circumstances that can make treatment necessary.
Treatment alone may not be enough to guarantee a consistent supply of safe and high quality water. In some cases, such as below-grade wells, structural changes may need to be made to maintain good water quality.
Why Treat your Water Supply?
You may have to treat your well water to make it safe to drink if you draw your water supply from: water that is “highly vulnerable” to contamination – described in Get Acquainted with Your Well; a poorly constructed well or one that cannot be repaired to meet today’s well construction standards; or a source that has periodic episodes of poor water quality. If any of these situations applies to you, your drinking water may be susceptible to harmful organisms (pathogens such as bacteria, parasites and viruses), chemicals and other changes to your water’s taste, odour and/or appearance.
As you’re learning more about treatment systems, just a reminder: begin with a properly built and maintained well, and have your water tested regularly. Otherwise, you may always be treating a problem, and never resolving it.
Ask Around
It’s always in your best interest to find out as much as possible about your well. The local public health unit, the Ontario Ministry of the Environment (MOE), your Water Well Record available from MOE, water well drillers, municipal staff, environmental consultants and neighbours may all have useful information. As a well owner, you need to review all this information carefully to help you decide if testing your well water for dissolved chemicals is needed.
Choosing a Treatment System
Treating Highly Vulnerable Sources can be Costly and Tricky
Treatment systems can be used on water from most sources in order to make it safe for drinking. However, treating highly vulnerable water sources is usually expensive and difficult, and will require a great deal of your time to make sure the equipment is looked after properly. Contact us and/or a water treatment professional when selecting, installing and operating a treatment system.
By contrast, treating water from properly constructed and maintained wells is generally easier, but again the technology used must be selected carefully.
Remember their Limitations!
Why Treat your Water Supply?
You may have to treat your well water to make it safe to drink if you draw your water supply from: water that is “highly vulnerable” to contamination – described in Get Acquainted with Your Well; a poorly constructed well or one that cannot be repaired to meet today’s well construction standards; or a source that has periodic episodes of poor water quality. If any of these situations applies to you, your drinking water may be susceptible to harmful organisms (pathogens such as bacteria, parasites and viruses), chemicals and other changes to your water’s taste, odour and/or appearance.
As you’re learning more about treatment systems, just a reminder: begin with a properly built and maintained well, and have your water tested regularly. Otherwise, you may always be treating a problem, and never resolving it.
Ask Around
It’s always in your best interest to find out as much as possible about your well. The local public health unit, the Ontario Ministry of the Environment (MOE), your Water Well Record available from MOE, water well drillers, municipal staff, environmental consultants and neighbours may all have useful information. As a well owner, you need to review all this information carefully to help you decide if testing your well water for dissolved chemicals is needed.
Choosing a Treatment System
Treating Highly Vulnerable Sources can be Costly and Tricky
Treatment systems can be used on water from most sources in order to make it safe for drinking. However, treating highly vulnerable water sources is usually expensive and difficult, and will require a great deal of your time to make sure the equipment is looked after properly. Contact us and/or a water treatment professional when selecting, installing and operating a treatment system.
By contrast, treating water from properly constructed and maintained wells is generally easier, but again the technology used must be selected carefully.
Remember their Limitations!
Here are a few key limitations of treatment systems.
- Disinfecting a well with chlorine works against bacteria and many viruses, but cannot be relied on to kill all parasites. Also, chlorine cannot be relied on to kill tiny organisms embedded inside tiny dirt particles. For water sources that may be contaminated with surface water, an effective filtration treatment will also be needed.
- There are many treatment systems on the market. Some of these are referred to as “point-of-use” systems, where the equipment is attached to one faucet. Others are “in-line” and provide treated water for an entire home. These systems are based on different technologies, ranging from chemical treatment to mechanical treatment (e.g., filters to ultra-violet light). Each system has its benefits and limitations.
- Heating water to a rolling boil for at least one minute is an effective method for killing harmful organisms. However, it does not remove most dissolved contaminants (such as chemicals) and it is impractical for treating large quantities of water.
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