People today prefer to drink filtered or treated water. Thirty to fifty years back and no one would think of buying bottled water. The fact is potable water is getting scarcer everyday. We need to treat it just to get rid of the pollutants. One of the most common ways to treat water is to use an ultraviolet water treatment.

Ultraviolet water treatment will kill most viruses in your water. It is usually the last stage of treatment for bottled water. Depending on the water filtration system you use, the first couple of stages may include distillation, filtration and condensation. These processes will take away about 99 percent of virus. The last stage of ultraviolet treatment is mainly used for good safety.