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Tap water is simply too dangerous to consume anymore. There are ridiculous amounts of contaminants found in tap water and all of them have detrimental effects on your health. If you want to protect your health and that of your family, it’s imperative that you get a water filtration system immediately.

 However, not all water purifiers and filters are created equal. To help you pick the right product here is a list of 7 points to consider when you go shopping.

 1. Water filtration does not have to be expensive. Some methods such as reverse osmosis and distillation are fairly pricey at up to 26 cents per gallon. Carbon block or granular filtration is the most affordable at less than 10 cents per gallon.

 2. You also have to consider what type of water filtration system you want. You can filter your drinking water, your bath water, or your home’s entire water supply. It would cost you more money to filter your whole home’s water supply but it would still be cheaper than drinking bottled water and you would be 100% protected from the dangers of tap water.

 3. Do you have a problem with visible filters? Countertop filters may get in the way of things and make your kitchen look cluttered. If you would prefer something that is out of sight and out of mind you can opt for an under-the-sink water filter.

 4. Learn about the health benefits of drinking mineral water. There are some water filters out there that remove the beneficial trace minerals from tap water so it’s important to make sure that you find a water filter that doesn’t demineralize water. Reverse osmosis and distillation strip tap water of its minerals. Drinking demineralized water can lead to cancer and mineral deficiencies. Carbon filters don’t remove trace minerals from tap water.

 5. Determine how quickly the water filtration device you are interested in produces water. Both reverse osmosis and distillation produce less than a gallon per hour. Carbon filters produce up to 30 gallons per hour.

 6. Is the filter you are interested in wasteful? The only water filtration system that doesn’t waste any water during the filtration process is carbon block or granular filtration.

 7. Check whether the water filtration device removes both organic and synthetic chemicals. For example, reverse osmosis only removes organic chemicals and is not capable of removing synthetic chemicals such as pesticides and herbicides and so must be used in conjunction with a carbon filter. The obvious solution is to use a carbon filter instead.

 In conclusion, it’s important to weigh your options carefully when shopping for a water filtration system. There are many models and methods to choose from so it’s important to get your priorities straight prior to hitting the stores. By doing so, you will be able to make an educated decision and purchase the best possible water filter that your money can buy.

Are you ready to drink your tap water right from your faucet? You probably never considered that proposition seriously, after having become addicted to bottled water.

In fact however, it would be worthy to consider the alternatives. Unless you live in a lucky location where the drinking water at you tap is constantly of the highest quality, you may possibly find out that its taste is lousy, although the water supply is generally wholesome, for grownups at least.

It is widely known by now that the highest authorities appointed to check water distribution and quality recommend that tap water be filtered at home before use.

Quality home water filtration at the tap offers remarkably better than bottled water at a much lower cost.

When looking for a water filtration system one can compare for performance, looking for the list of contaminants it is certified to remove and to what degree. This information should be provided by respectable manufacturers.

Then one has only to check the total costs, to figure out the cost per unit volume (gallon or liter) of filtered water. By comparing the data from different manufacturers it should not be too difficult to determine which product will best meet your needs.

Of course you will find also other solutions than water filtration. It may be useful to point out here that distillation is not recommended because distilled water lacks some important minerals like salts of calcium, sodium, magnesium and potassium, that the human body needs a continuous supply thereof.

The fact that demineralized water is deprived of essential constituents excludes it from the sources of drinking water that should be taken into account. The same is applicable to reverse osmosis for two main reasons.

The first is that it consumes quite a bit of energy for providing the positive pressure that makes the system work, the second is that it produces a very large quantity of water that did not pass the membrane, and therefore must be disposed of as reject.

Even if it could be asserted that the issue is not settled from a general and theoretic point of view, as specific cases can be found where such solutions would be advantageous, like for the printing and photo processing industries which require mineral free water, the home water purification way to go seems to be filtration, at least for drinking, because even Scientific research points in this direction.

Summing up, multi media block filters as offered by the best manufacturers, have several additional advantages. A blended media extruded or compressed into a solid with a sub-micron pore structure is highly effective to filter out sediment and cysts like Cryptosporidium and Giardia. This configuration also prevents water from tunneling around the filter media.

For best performance it is essential that a multi stage process be used to filter out a wide range of contaminants.