Comparing Water Filters. Essential To Do Before You Buy.
Many people worry about the purity of their drinking water.
There are now so many contaminants found in our water unfortunately. You can find chlorine, lead, drugs and way more in our municipal water that you , (but not me) drink daily. So for many people a good water purification system is a must. And there’s so many different types of water filter to choose from.
Before choosing the right type of purification system for your home, its important to compare water filters beforehand. Here are some tips on how to choose the right filter for your drinking water.
One of the most effective water filters is carbon water filters. They are effective and cheap and have some solid advantages. They are usually easy to use, for example. A carbon filter works by absorbing the impurities as the water passes over a charcoal medium, which attracts and traps them.
When you compare water filters, its a good idea to take carbon water filters into consideration.
Reverse osmosis filters are also popular. They have a membrane with very small holes in it and the water has to pass through. Anything too small to pass through gets trapped and removed, but not everything that you want to remove is trapped. There are some contaminants that will still pass through. And reverse osmosis filters are also very slow.
Whole house water filters are a good option if you want to filter your water for everything you use in the house like drinking, showering and washing. A great option but more expensive than just filtering your drinking water, for example.
Distillation is another one of the many different types of drinking water filter systems out there. Although it is known to work fairly effectively at removing most of the impurities from drinking water, there are a number of disadvantages associated with distillation. It can remove healthy minerals from drinking water, can be very slow working, and costs a lot of electricity to run. Its important to take all of these disadvantages into consideration when you compare drinking water filters.
So there is really a very wide range of water filters available to the consumer, this is just some. They work very differently and have different costs, and so it can be quite a complicated process choosing the best water filter.
But the bottom line for most people is just to find the best water filter. When I am asked about water filters I usually find that the technicals go right over their heads, and finally they just ask me to tell them the best water filter that there is.
The best water filter that you can get is an activated carbon water filter. Carbon water filters have their drawbacks. There are some impurities that they don’t remove. However there are now more modern carbon filters that are actually 2 stage filters, the second stage being designed to remove those contaminants that the carbon doesn’t remove.
And surprisingly these 2 stage activated carbon water filters are very cost competitive as well, which is always a nice surprise.
I write all about 2 stage water filters featuring activated carbon at my website.
Peter has a website all about Water Purification and also helps people to produce their own personal websites, an example being http://jennyjason.com/
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