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Why is it important to drink enough water?

Drinking enough water is essential to your health, as it helps every cell in your body work properly. That’s why it’s important to stay hydrated throughout the day. Many types of water are on the market, with spring and purified varieties being among the most popular.

Benefits of purified water

Purified water is water that has been mechanically filtered or processed to remove impurities and make it suitable for use. Distilled water was, formerly, the most common form of purified water, but, in recent years, water is more frequently purified by other processes including capacitive deionization, reverse osmosis, carbon filtering, microfiltration, ultrafiltration, ultraviolet oxidation, or electrodeionization…

Uses For Whole House Water Filters

A water filter can be very effective at removing specific contaminants from your water. The type of filter you need will depend on what you need to remove, however. A carbon filter can be used to remove chlorine and chloramines from your water, for example, but you’ll need calcite or soda ash to treat acid water.

Chemicals (including PCB, trichloroethylene, and other toxins)
Chlorine
Fluoride
Chloramine
Iron and manganese
Acidic water (low pH)
Sulfur (rotten egg smell)
Sediment, sand, and turbidity

What is Reverse Osmosis?

The technology was originally invented as a solution to

Desalinate brackish water or sea water to make it drinkable
Reduce very specific chemical contaminants such as heavy metals

RO is a process through which water pressure pushes the tap water through a semipermeable membrane that allows relatively small water molecules, but not larger molecules such as dissolved minerals (e.g. Salt) to pass through. Thanks to the process the pure tap water is separated from all other substances found in the water.

What does Reverse Osmosis filters remove?

RO systems remove contaminants from water including nitrates, sulfates, fluoride, arsenic and much more. But it also removes healthy minerals such as magnesium, calcium, potassium and sodium. Overall they remove 100s of substances from tap water with a 99% or higher filtration effiency rate.

Generally claims around what RO removes is based on high pressure industrial RO filters so therefore lower cost housefilters may not be as effective.

It does not remove chlorine or soften the water and therefore activated carbon filters are almost always required in combination of RO. The activated carbon also helps remove 70+ other contaminants such as pesticides, herbicides, chlorine bi-products, pharmaceuticals and more.