Saturday, May 2, 2009

Comparing Water Filters. Essential To Do Before You Buy.

By Peter Abertoning

The purity of the water you drink is such a concern for so many people now.

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.

So as you compare water filters you ought to seriously look at carbon water filters.

Reverse osmosis water filters another one of the types of systems to consider when you compare drinking water filters. This type of filtration system works by purifying water through a very small membrane. While this water filtration system is known to be fairly effective, the process is also known to be fairly slow.

Whole house water filters are another option that most people will want to consider when they compare water filters. Keep in mind that there are many different types of specific water filters while can be used in a whole house system. This option is a great choice if you want to ensure that all of the drinking water in your home will be purified.

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.

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 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 world leading 2 stage carbon filters are quite cost comparable, in fact very cost competitive, to other water filters on the market.

Visit my website to find out more about 2 stage activated carbon water filters.

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