Comparing Water Filters. Essential To Do Before You Buy.

By Peter Abertoning

There are so many people how who are concerned about the purity of the water they drink.

Many types of impurities are found in our drinking water, such as chlorine, lead, pharmaceutical drugs, and more. If you are interested in a water filtration system for the drinking water in your home, then its important to keep in mind that there are many different types available on the market for you to choose from.

If you really want to avoid drinking contaminated unhealthy water you need to do some comparing of water purification systems. You need to choose the best water filter for your needs. Here's some essential tips to choosing a water filter.

Carbon water filters are about the most effective water filters. They trap contaminants as they travel over a charcoal filter medium, and remove them from the water. And carbon water filters are quite cost competitive.

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.

There are also various sizes of water filter and when doing your search for the best water filter you need to consider your needs. Whole house water filters, for example, do exactly what they say. Filter the water for the entire house. Perfect except for the fact that they are more expensive than, say, a simple drinking water filter. Great if you can afford one.

You can also distill water to purify it that way. Water distillation is not a recommended form of water filtration. Certainly it removes impurities but it has it's disadvantages as well. It removes minerals (and everything else) from the water and your body actually needs various minerals found in water, so this can actually be a disadvantage to your health.

So as you can see you have a very wide range of choices when it comes to choosing a water filter. They range in price quite substantially and work quite differently in many cases.

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 surprisingly these 2 stage activated carbon water filters are very cost competitive as well, which is always a nice surprise.

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

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