Good Procedures Ensures Water Quality Ensuring that drinking water is safe for consumption is no longer the sole burden of municipal water providers. More water treatment dealers are attempting not only to improve water's aesthetics, but to disinfect it as well. Ozone can often accomplish both objectives. It can also help remove iron, hydrogen sulfide and other contaminants from water.
Ozone is the most powerful useful oxidant known, second only to fluorine in strength.
Its high chemical reactivity arise from its unstable electron configuration that seeks electrons from other molecules. During its reaction with other molecules ozone is destroyed and the host is oxidized. In water, oxidizing pollutants undergo a process similar to burning. Also, pH of water isn't directly changed when ozone is employed. This differs from other oxidizers such as chlorine, which require the use of caustic or lime to adjust the pH, thus altering overall water quality when byproducts are left in the water.