At Progressive Water Solutions LLC, we specialize in keeping your water clean and pure. We offer high-quality water purification systems, and one of the many options we offer relies on UV disinfection.
In this article, we’ll explain how UV disinfection works so that you can feel more secure that your purification system is keeping you safe.
- What impurities does UV disinfection target? UV disinfection systems are designed to neutralize and remove disease-causing organisms such as bacteria, viruses, yeasts, and fungi from the water supply. They remove things like E. coli and salmonella, but not heavy metals such as lead—another type of water purification system is needed to remove non-biological contaminants.
- How does UV light neutralize germs? UV disinfection works by destroying the DNA in living cells. Remember, UV light is a form of radiation, and it can damage even multicellular organisms—UV radiation is what causes sunburn and skin cancer. When single-celled organisms, such as E. coli bacteria, are exposed to UV radiation, the energy from the radiation destroys their cellular structure, which kills the cells and renders them harmless.
- What are the benefits of UV disinfection? UV disinfection offers some key advantages over chemical methods of disinfection. First, the chemicals used in water disinfection can have negative environmental impacts over time, which makes UV disinfection a preferable alternative. In addition, organisms cannot become immune to UV radiation over time the way they can with chemicals or drugs, so UV disinfection will remain effective in the long term.