MISSION

Safe drinking water at the tap, in every home.

We have the technology to put clean drinking water in every home. Our mission is to make it the normal way homes are built, so no family has to carry its drinking water home again.

We still carry water like the people of Genesis.

In the book of Genesis, Rebekah goes to the town well in the evening, at "the time that women go out to draw water," and carries her jar home on her shoulder. About three thousand years later, many of us still make a version of the same trip. We drive to a store or a water machine, fill 5-gallon jugs that weigh about 43 pounds each, and haul them home every week.

Around the world it is harder still. About 2.1 billion people, 1 in 4, still lack safely managed drinking water at home, and in most countries with data, women and girls do most of the carrying (WHO and UNICEF, 2025).

The technology already exists.

• Reverse osmosis (a fine membrane that water is pushed through) removes salts, metals and most PFAS, the "forever chemicals." Certified home units sell for a few hundred dollars.

• A dedicated drinking-water line is just one more pipe. Builders already run separate lines for hot water, gas and irrigation. A line that serves only the kitchen tap, the refrigerator and the bathroom sinks is ordinary plumbing.

• Building codes already require smoke detectors and safety outlets in every new home. Nobody thinks of those as luxuries. Safe drinking water at the tap belongs on the same list.

What is missing is not an invention. It is the decision to build drinking water into homes the way we build in electricity and smoke alarms.

Our agenda.

• A drinking-water line in every new home. We have proposed a building-code change that is brand-neutral: it requires the line, not anyone's product.

• Zero-waste treatment. Reverse osmosis that does not send gallons down the drain, with open designs anyone can build, including homes in the Philippines that store water in a tank.

• Honest information. What filters do and don't remove, what water really costs, and what to check before you buy.

• Open work. Our studies are free on Zenodo so engineers, builders and regulators can check them, criticize them and improve them.

• Start with the people left out. Elderly residents in care homes, schoolchildren and renters who cannot install their own equipment.

What we won't do.

No scare tactics and no "free water test" theatrics. We say plainly where our own work is unproven; for example, our PFAS reference design has no pilot measurements yet. And we tell you up front that the person behind this site sells water purification systems.

A higher standard of living.

Safe water at the tap is one of the simplest ways to raise how people live: no more hauling, less plastic, more time, and fewer worries about what is in the glass. Our goal is a day when carrying drinking water home seems as old-fashioned as drawing it from a well.

Safe Home Drink is run by Raymundo Razon Abad, civil engineer (licensed in the Philippines), who founded Pure Water Center of SoCal Inc., a water purification business.