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Your Home Water Filter System

By: Trent Barrett

When you're trying to get good clean water for your home, it's tempting to just pick up the $30 PUR filter and end your search there. The problem is, these small faucet-mounted water filter systems aren't necessarily the best ones for your needs. If you drink a lot of bottled water, you may want a more involved drinking water filter system, like a reverse osmosis system; if you live in the country and get your water from a well or a spring, you want a filter that is exceptional with killing biological contaminants.

For water that's already pretty good right out of the tap, a standard activated charcoal water filteer system is fine. This filter mounts on your faucet and forces water through to filter out biological and some mineral contaminants, resulting in cleaner good-tasting water right at your kitchen sink. Ceramic water filter systems work in an identical fashion, but use diatomaceous earth like most municipal systems rather than carbon.

If your water is relatively unpleasant to drink and you find yourself spending a lot of money every month on bottled water, it might be a good idea to go with a reverse osmosis drinking water filter system. The most basic of these consists of an osmotic filter where the water comes in, a reservoir where purified water is stored, and a tap separate from your regular sink tap where your purified water comes out. Where the activated charcoal water filter system removes contaminants when water is forced through the filter, an osmotic filter removes contaminants passively, allowing very pure water to seep through the filter while all contaminants remain on the other side. The result is bottled-water quality drinking water.

Even though a reverse osmosis drinking water filter system is perhaps the best possible water filtration system you can get, it has a couple of problems. If you also live in a drought-prone area, you should know that for every gallon of purified water your reverse osmosis system makes, ten more gallons are wasted - not a problem if you water your garden and yard from a gray water tank, but a potential problem if you are very sensitive to wasted water. Also, once in a while a biological contaminant can get through the osmotic filters, and only one can contaminate your entire reservoir. For this reason, most reverse osmosis systems also include an ultraviolet water purifier at the end that shines UV rays through your reservoir, killing every biological contaminant there while leaving your water otherwise unchanged.

Besides having clean drinking water, there's at least one other reason for getting a home water filter system: to have clean water to bathe in. Hard water can leave residue and make your soaps and shampoos work more poorly, and chlorine can vaporize into chloroform, a gas that can irritate your lungs and is particularly bad for asthmatics and others with lung problems. For these homes, a whole house water filter system may be a good idea. Though you'll need a good plumber to install it right, you'll have a healthier family and cleaner water, and your home will have purer air.

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Trent Barrett is a consultant who writes for Home water purifiers. You can visit their homepage to learn more about home water purification systems

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