Water Filtration

With the purchase of a high quality water purification system, there are a lots of considerations that you have to make, including whether or not the system provides you with the best value with its replacement water filter cartridge. Sometimes you’re not getting quite as good a deal as you may think that you are.

Many times you will find that you’ll have what you consider to be a reasonably priced purification system only to find out that due to the lifespan of the replacement cartridges, you will be spending far more than you had planned to. That is why it is always important to be sure of exactly what you are getting into.

You see, the lifespan of a water filter cartridge is measured by the number of gallons that it can effectively clean before needing to be replaced. Now, this number can vary anywhere from 100 to over 1300 gallons. Then you have to figure out by the cost of the filter, and by how often you have to replace it, just how much money per year you’ll be spending.

The way that you will go about figuring this out is by knowing that the average amount of water used by a family over the course of a year is 1,000 gallons. So if you had a filter with a lifespan of 500 gallons, and the cartridge cost $48, then you would have an annual expenditure of $96.

If on the other hand your replacement water filter cartridge only cost $20, but only had a lifespan of 100 gallons, then you would have to buy ten of them over the course of a year. This would add up to your spending $200 annually, which I’m sure is a far cry more than you planned to spend.

So you can see how important it is to factor these costs into the equation as you could possibly save yourself a lot of money. Aside from the financial aspect of choosing a filter there are a few other things that are important enough to be covered here such as filter quality.

The water filter cartridge that you choose has to be able to protect your family from all of the contaminants that our reservoir system contains. What this means is that you will have to look for a filter that actually blocks the contaminants in your drinking water and employs four different methods of protection.

You need to have both an activated granular carbon filter and a multi media block in order to be able to effectively keep out all of the chemicals in your water. You will also have to have a sub micron filter in the cartridge so that all of the parasites and cysts will be removed, and an ion exchange for heavy metals.

If your replacement water filter cartridges contain all four of those elements, then you will have no worries ever again about the purity of your water. I hope you can use what you have learned from this article to help you make the right decision for you and your family.

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