Reverse Osmosis

Reverse Osmosis (RO) is a water treatment technique used to produce high quality drinking water since the 1950s.  It is commonly used to treat water that has a high content of total dissolved solids (TDS), salts, and other inorganics such as lead, mercury, arsenic, asbestos, copper, nitrates etc. RO water is water in its purest form and it tastes light & fresh.

How Reverse Osmosis Works

In reverse osmosis, a synthetic membrane is used that allows only the water molecules with very few other molecules to pass through into a storage tank for future use.  The remaining water, which contains high levels of contaminants, is left to waste.  The process, known as ion exclusion, occurs when ions (charged atoms) form a barrier at the membrane surface to reject contaminants.  With an RO system, the water is removed from the minerals, unlike traditional systems in which minerals are removed from the water.