Water treatment plants take your wastewater, which includes feces and urine, and filters it before treating it with chlorine and other "cleansing" agents. Then it sends the water back to your home for you to use. It is presumed safe to drink, safe for cooking, and safe for washing and bathing, but the thought of where the water came from might still leave you queasy. You want to know with absolute certainty that the water is clean, tastes fine, and is treated for more than just bacteria. Here are three ways to treat your home's water after the city treatment plant has already treated the wastewater and sent it back to you as clean water. 

Whole-House Reverse Osmosis

This is an osmosis system that is installed on the main water line in your home. Several filters within the system purify the water further by removing millions of microns of impurities that still remain in the city water. After water is pushed forward, back again, and then forward through another filter, the water is then released into your home's pipes that travel to the taps. The water tastes better, and this process is said to remove a lot of the cleaning agents used by water treatment facilities, as well as the remaining impurities. 

Soft Water Treatment

If you really want to double-treat your water, send it through the osmosis system mentioned above, and then send it through a water softener system. The water softener system removes a lot of lime, rust, and calcium that the reverse osmosis system is not meant to remove. By running water through both of these systems, you are creating softened water that is mostly pure and mostly chemical treatment-free and that will not damage your plumbing or any of your appliances that use water on a daily basis. 

Boiling It, Chilling It, and Bottling It

Of course, you can always spend a lot of time boiling massive pots of water on your kitchen stove, too. After you spend a few minutes boiling the water, then you take it off of your stove, chill the water in a freezer until it is cool enough to bottle, and then bottle the water and store it. This is much more labor-intensive, but if people in areas where water has to be boiled daily can do it, you could do it this way too. It is just easier to choose one of the aforementioned treatment options that can be installed in just a couple of hours. 

For more information, contact a water treatment company like Water Tec.