Question:
we have had our well water here test positive for coliform bacteria morethen once so we decided to have a whole-house ultraviolet water purificationsystem installed by Rainsoft.. This was after i heard all the bad thingsabout rainsoft.. I honestly think all these water purification installersare crooks.. The guy had to come back to my house 3 times because the pipeswere still leaking.. I asked the guy about his past and he said he nevereven went to school to learn this.. What kind of friggin people are theseguys hiring?

But i would like to know is this system really effective in killing all thebacteria in the water? The water seems to move through it pretty fast..Also, i was doing a google search on this and a science teacher brought upthe fact that this type of ultraviolet on water could possibly cause cancerin humans.. Is there any proof of this? I was pretty piszed when i readabout that.. Our government will probably tell us 20 years from now that itcauses cancer..

Answer: I am no expert on the ultraviolet method of water purification, but havenever heard about the cancer causing aspects of it. I tend to ignore a lotof the cancer scares we get in today's media. If you feed rats enough honeyor any other benign food, I am sure that some of the rats would developcancer of some other abnormality. But, would they have developed it anyway,even without the honey? Who knows? Every week there is some sensationalreport that says eggs, or something else are bad for you and then within sixmonths, there is another report that eggs or whatever are good for you andwe should eat more of them. Large Cities are using ultraviolet to purifydrinking water more and more these days, so one would think that it has beeninvestigated pretty good for it's effectiveness.