Safeguard Drinking and Cooking Water with an Everpure PBS400

When it comes to your health, you want to be certain that the water you drink is as clean and uncontaminated as possible. The Everpure PBS400 Water Filter safeguards your water and is an excellent choice for your household or business.

Water filtration methods date back to ancient times, but many of those more primitive systems were ineffective. It has taken thousands of years to finally invent a system that thoroughly rids water of harmful bacteria and microbes. Today we have a variety of filtration systems available to us, and the PBS400 is one of the best.

Water Filtration from Ancient Times

Historians speculate that water purification techniques have existed since prehistoric times. These civilizations didn’t have the science to understand contamination, but they did recognize foul-tasting water. This launched the first primitive experiments in purification. Concrete evidence of such techniques dates back to 4000 B.C., when people simply observed water for signs of pollution and smelled it to check for odors.

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Ancient cultures had many creative methods for purifying water. They used different species of plants that they believed had purification properties, such as water lily roots and herbs like amla and khus. They also boiled it with copper, iron, or hot sand mixed in.

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Written documentation on early water filtration was nonexistent until archeologists discovered Sanskrit medical reports called the Sushruta Samhita (Sushruta’s Compendium) in the Egyptian pyramids. Dating back to 2000 B.C., these writings described a number of innovative purification techniques: filtering it through sand; dipping a hot iron into it; and adding a seed from a tree called the Strychnos potatorum. By the 15th century B.C., ancient Egyptians had invented a basic water purification apparatus.

In ancient Greek and Roman times, scientists and purification specialists developed complex systems for cleaning the water. For example, one early inventor created a technique involving dunking a bag of pounded barley and bruised coral into water. Diophanes attempted to immerse macerated laurels in rainwater for purification. During the 4th century B.C., Hippocrates (the “father of medicine”) strained water through a cloth bag to improve its taste and smell.

In 1627, Sir Francis Bacon mentioned desalination in his book, Silva Silvarum, Or A Natural History of Ten Centuries. He believed that if you dug a hole along the shore, sand would purify the seawater and make it drinkable. Although his system failed, it was significant in advancing thought in the area of water purification. Decades later, an Italian physician named Lucas Antonius Portius invented a successful multiple sand filtration apparatus. From this point forward, people used water filtration almost exclusively, and governments and municipalities made it their responsibility to provide citizens with clean drinking water.

The first municipal water purification plant in the world was constructed in Paisley, Scotland in 1804. It incorporated a slow purification process that involved gravel filters and concentric sand. This method became widespread for several decades and many cities introduced ordinances to implement it. Ultimately, it fell out of use because it required too much land to operate.

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Unfortunately, the Industrial Revolution (1820s-1840s) brought on toxic pollution that eventually spread across the world. This made effective water purification much more challenging.

Around 1827, Sir Henry Doulton invented a filter made from clay and other materials that removed bacteria. This device served as a blueprint for the development of future water purification methods. In 1855, the city of London, England was the first to decree by parliamentary statute that the city’s water supply would be processed through slow sand filters. Years later, a slow sand filtration method was invented in the United States, and in 1902, a more efficient rapid sand filtration system was built in Little Falls, New Jersey.

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German physician Dr. Robert Koch discovered in 1892 that the rampant spread of cholera was directly linked to an unfiltered water tank. Until then, the idea that diseases were able to contaminate water wasn’t understood. As a result, municipalities prioritized the need for fresh water and constructed treatment plants that would better purify it.

Early experimentation with using chlorine as a water disinfectant began in Europe around 1894. It wasn’t until 1908, however, that the process was implemented continuously in the Boonton Reservoir in Jersey City, New Jersey.

The Everpure PBS400 Water Filter: What Makes it So Effective?

Ancient water filtration techniques are obviously no longer good enough to address the purification needs we have in the modern world. Today, filtration plants have to be extremely sophisticated to ensure that all bacteria, microbes, and toxins are completely removed from water before it is deemed safe for public consumption. Technology has progressed a great deal over time, and now we have filtration systems that not only service large municipalities but homes and businesses as well.

The Everpure PBS400 Water Filter is part of a direct-plumb system that connects to the cold water line of your existing faucet. It yields a 2.2 gallon-per-minute flow rate and includes a commercial-grade metal canister that protects it from damage.

A state-of-the-art gold medal winner, the Everpure PBS400 retains valuable minerals and provides water that is clean, crisp, and free of toxins. In fact, it’s designed to reduce particles as small as 0.5 microns in size and reduces various substances like lead, mould, algae, sulphides, and buildup of limescale. It’s also NSF/ANSI Standard 53 certified to reduce contaminants like Giardia and Cryptosporidium.

The Last Word

Although ancient water filtration techniques were largely ineffective, today we have the technology to ensure purity and cleanliness in our drinking water. We highly recommend the Everpure PBS400 Water Filter system for your home or business establishment.

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