Comparing Water Filters. Essential To Do Before You Buy.

By Peter Abertoning

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.

Carbon water filters are known to be one of the most effective types of water purification systems on the market. They offer some great advantages, such as being fairly inexpensive and easy to install. It works when the water passes through charcoal medium carbon, which absorbs the impurities in the drinking water.

So you ought to seriously consider carbon water filters when doing a water filter comparison.

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.

As you can see, there are many different types of water filters on the market that are available for you to choose from. Whether you decide to opt for an affordable, easy to install carbon filter or a slow-working, expensive to run distillation filter, there are a number of different water filtration options available for you to choose from.

I often talk to people about water filters and find often that the technical aspects of how they work are too difficult. Usually they just ask me to tell them which one is the best water filter available.

The best water filter is actually a modified form of carbon, or charcoal, water filter. As simple carbon water filter is good, but doesn't remove all contaminants. But there is a modern form of carbon, or activated carbon, water filter that combines the benefits of carbon filtration with a second stage of mechanism to remove the impurities that aren't removed by the carbon.

And although you wouldn't expect it these 2 stage activated carbon water filters are extremely cost competitive as well.

I write all about 2 stage water filters featuring activated carbon at my website. - 30289

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