Water Filtration

There’s no doubt that using under sink water filters can dramatically improve the quality of your water and protect the health and well-being of yourself and your family. But you have to watch out for imitators that are just out to capture a piece of the market. Here are 3 important things you must know before picking the one you want to go with.

1. Many under sink water filters are marketed as state-of-the-art technology, but most of them are far from it. Methods like distillation and reverse osmosis are well-known water purification systems, but there’s many pitfalls to them that most people don’t know about. For one, they are ineffective at removing synthetic chemicals unless used with a carbon filter. They also produce demineralized water, which when consuming over the long-run has been shown to increase your risk of mineral deficiencies and even cancer.

2. The best under sink water filters are ones that use a multi-stage process. When all the different kinds of contaminants are trying to be removed at the same time, the process is severely weakened. The best technologies available today are sub micron filtration and ion exchange.

But the first step in every filtration process should be removing all the sediment, turbidity (cloudiness), and chlorine so the next step can focus on getting rid of the more difficult and serious contaminants.

Ion exchange actually reduces the amount of lead in water and replaces it with beneficial potassium ions, an important natural mineral found in water.

Then sub micron filtration can remove all the solvents, herbicides, pesticides and other synthetic chemicals, as well as chlorine resistant organisms like Cryptosporidium and Giardia.

3. Look for under sink water filters that have been vigorously tested and documented. Companies which make under sink water filters that aren’t afraid to test their products under real-life situations are the ones that are confident in their products. Not only do they put their products through real-life tests, they also get those results certified by the Department of Health.

Here’s one trick that many companies like to use to make their under sink water filters seem more efficient than they really are. When testing how well synthetic chemicals are removed, they add the contaminants being tested to deionized water, free from sediment and chlorine. This makes the process of removing the chemicals much easier, and is very much the opposite of tap water.

Real testing is done on regular tap water, and is then evaluated for how much of each contaminant is still left in it.

So in conclusion, just keep in mind that even though it’s a no-brainer that sink water filters are a necessity, not all systems are created equal. And by no means does this mean that only the most expensive systems work either.

The under sink water filters that we have in our home filter over 99% of all harmful contaminants, and the best part is- it only costs us about 9 cents for each whole gallon of pure, safe, healthy drinking water!

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