Drinking Water Filters and How To Select The Ones That Keep You Safe

Drinking Water Filters and How To Select The Ones That Keep You Safe

 When it comes to choosing drinking water filters, the sheer amount of products available can make it quite a task, but when you know specifically what to look for, the task becomes a much easier one as only a handful of filters make the grade today.

Even the most established and famous brand drinking water filters fail to remove many of the thousands of toxins that exist in our water today like pesticides, chlorine and prescription drugs.

The most common type to have is a kitchen jug filter and while these are better than having nothing at all, they are the most expensive and ineffective method, being too small to do much good except remove a little chlorine to improve the taste.

Reverse osmosis systems are still quite popular but the downsides are that they strip out the natural minerals like calcium and magnesium which the World Health Organization says are vital to our health and should be present in our water. They also leave in many dangerous toxins as well, especially the synthetic ones which easily get through their filters.

The only type currently recommended by the US EPA are carbon block ones as they use a technique which binds the contaminants to the filter and the very best can remove a staggering 99% of all the contaminants.

The best ones have a multi-step process with sub micron filtering and ion exchange to leave you with pure, safe water that still contains all the natural minerals to keep you healthy.

They can be countertop, under counter or even whole house drinking water filters depending on your needs and personal requirements and some even make special shower filters as you can absorb more chemicals from showering than by drinking over two liters of unfiltered water!

With the problem of water pollution getting worse and not better and the municipals changing over to a more toxic disinfectant called chloramine which increases the lead levels, now is the time to get a quality and effective drinking water filter to protect your family.

Visit my website today if you would like to learn more about the types of water filtration systems that I personally recommend and use.