5 Stage Reverse Osmosis System

With 75 GPD Membrane. Product of Applied Membranes

Retail: $220. Our price: $139

This 5 Stage Reverse Osmosis System from Applied Membranes has been Made in the USA for the past 25 years. Their systems are sold in over 100 countries worldwide. (Find out how Reverse Osmosis Systems Work) We wanted to sell a top of the line product made in the USA and this is it! (See: product instruction manual)

Everything you need is included in our 5 Stage Reverse Osmosis Systems. The package includes:

Filters: 1) High capacity, 5 micron sediment filter, to remove sediment, rust, sand, (replace every 12 months) 2) High capacity carbon filter, coconut shell carbon block filter removes chlorine, taste & odor (replace every 12 months) 3) High capacity carbon filter, coconut shell carbon block filter further removing chlorine to ensure 100% removal of chlorine (replace every 12 months) 4) TFC-TFM (75 GPD) AMI Premium membrane. Removes 97% to 98% of all chemical, dissolved solids in tap water. (replace every 2-3 years) 5) High capacity final stage inline carbon filter, granular activated carbon, to improve taste of water. (replace every 12 months)

Tank 4 gallon tank, holding 3 to 3.2 gallons of water depending on water pressure, (needs 40-80 psi to operate) NSF listed tank, stainless steel connector, FDA approved butyl rubber water bladder, pre-charged with compressed air so no additional charging or adjustment is necessary.

Faucet Chrome. A 5/8" or 1/2" hole or larger hole is required on the countertop.

Tubing, installation hardware, installation manual. Below are some key components and optional parts. Replacement Filters

NOTE: Beware of "Remineralization Filters" as most add fluoride! They usually list it as (F- 0.06mg/l) Almost as bad as giving fluoride to babies (in plastic distilled water no less) What an outrage! Even the corrupt ADA warns not to allow babies to drink fluoridated water!

Replacement Filters

	1st stage sediment filter (1 year)	$3.00	BUY
	2nd stage solid carbon block filter (1 year)	$700	BUY
	3rd stage solid carbon block filter (1 year)	$7.00	BUY
	5th stage inline carbon filter. (1 year)	$8.30	BUY
	4th stage TFC 75/85 RO membrane (2 years)	$27.00	BUY
OPTIONAL
	In & Out digital display TDS Tester Continually monitors system performance	$27.00	BUY?
	Clean Tap Monitor. Green Light: filter usage => 0% - 80% Yellow Light: filter usage => 80% - 99% Red Light: filter usage => 100%	$27.00	BUY

How Reverse Osmosis Systems Work

(Thanks to: science.howstuffworks.com)

To understand "reverse osmosis," it is probably best to start with normal osmosis. According to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, osmosis is the "movement of a solvent through a semi-permeable membrane (as of a living cell) into a solution of higher solute concentration that tends to equalize the concentrations of solute on the two sides of the membrane." That's a mouthful. To understand what it means, this picture is helpful:

On the left is a beaker filled with water, and a tube has been half-submerged in the water. As you would expect, the water level in the tube is the same as the water level in the beaker. In the middle figure, the end of the tube has been sealed with a "semi-permeable membrane" and the tube has been half-filled with a salty solution and submerged. Initially, the level of the salt solution and the water are equal, but over time, something unexpected happens -- the water in the tube actually rises. The rise is attributed to "osmotic pressure."

A semi-permeable membrane is a membrane that will pass some atoms or molecules but not others. Saran wrap is a membrane, but it is impermeable to almost everything we commonly throw at it. The best common example of a semi-permeable membrane would be the lining of your intestines, or a cell wall. Gore-tex is another common semi-permeable membrane. Gore-tex fabric contains an extremely thin plastic film into which billions of small pores have been cut. The pores are big enough to let water vapor through, but small enough to prevent liquid water from passing.

In the figure above, the membrane allows passage of water molecules but not salt molecules. One way to understand osmotic pressure would be to think of the water molecules on both sides of the membrane. They are in constant Brownian motion. On the salty side, some of the pores get plugged with salt atoms, but on the pure-water side that does not happen. Therefore, more water passes from the pure-water side to the salty side, as there are more pores on the pure-water side for the water molecules to pass through. The water on the salty side rises until one of two things occurs:

The salt concentration becomes the same on both sides of the membrane (which isn't going to happen in this case since there is pure water on one side and salty water on the other).
The water pressure rises as the height of the column of salty water rises, until it is equal to the osmotic pressure. At that point, osmosis will stop.

Osmosis, by the way, is why drinking salty water (like ocean water) will kill you. When you put salty water in your stomach, osmotic pressure begins drawing water out of your body to try to dilute the salt in your stomach. Eventually, you dehydrate and die.

In reverse osmosis, the idea is to use the membrane to act like an extremely fine filter to create drinkable water from salty (or otherwise contaminated) water. The salty water is put on one side of the membrane and pressure is applied to stop, and then reverse, the osmotic process. It generally takes a lot of pressure and is fairly slow, but it works.

American Dental Association reverses position, warns its members that fluoride is too dangerous to be consumed by infants.

On Nov. 9, 2006 the American Dental Association released an email alert to its members warning that, in order to prevent tooth damage, fluoridated water should not be mixed into formula or foods intended for babies aged 1 and younger.

Currently, two-thirds of the U.S. public water supply has fluoride chemicals added, a move centered on a now-disproved theory that fluoride ingestion prevents cavities. Research by the Centers for Disease Control has shown that fluoride absorbs into tooth enamel topically, but ingestion of the chemical can cause adverse reactions. Also, the CDC admitted that enamel fluoride concentration was not inversely related to cavities.

Fluoridated bottled water is available in stores across the United States along with instructions to mix into formula, which is what prompted the ADA to warn its members.

"Infants could receive a greater than optimal amount of fluoride through liquid concentrate or powdered baby formula that has been mixed with water containing fluoride during a time that their developing teeth may be susceptible to enamel fluorosis," stated the ADA report, describing the condition marked by pitting and white spotting as well as yellow and/or brown teeth.

Paul Beeber, lawyer and New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation (NYSCOF) president, noted that news releases from the NYSCOF in 2000 and 2004 cited studies that linked fluorisis to infant foods mixed with fluoridated water. However, Beeber remarked, it took the ADA until 2006 to release its alert, right after the FDA disapproved of marketing fluoridated water to babies in October and the National Research Council reported that babies are fluoride overdosed from "optimally" fluoridated water supplies.

"The ADA claims the NRC report didn't question the safety of fluoridation but it did, as the ADA now admits," Beeber said. "The NRC also revealed fluoridation's adverse effects to the thyroid gland, diabetics, kidney patients, high water drinkers and others."

He added that the ADA warning had only gone out to its members, and asked, "Who will alert parents?"

The Environmental Protection Agency, which sets allowable water fluoride levels, is required to consider the most vulnerable members of a population, so allowable fluoride levels should be near zero to protect infants.

"This should end water fluoridation," Beeber said. "Fluoridation is a failed concept that must be abandoned before more Americans are harmed."

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