How Do You Look for the Best Drinking Water Filters?
How many types of drinking water filters are there available on the market? Well, there are really many, so many in fact that it may be quite confusing to review them all and select.
Of course, the technical, impartial answer to the question spelled out in the Title above should be: "It depends on the kind of your water supply and on the quality of filtered water you want".
Such an answer, however correct and fair, is hardly of any use, because you may not know. But you can find a source of unbiased information from the Natural Resources Defense Council.
I would have liked to give you the online address, but I am prevented from doing so because article directories don't like them in the text. You can find it readily though, if you type "Consumer Guide to Water Filters" in the search box of your preferred information provider (Search Engine).
I am not going to summarize it here for you because you can easily see it for yourself, but I may however draw your attention to a few important points.
Depending on your exact location, the water at your faucet, although less then perfect, should be quite adequate for not impairing grown-ups' health. The problem should be considered for babies, kids, pregnant women, the elderly and people at risk.
It is generally agreed that any drinking water filter is better than none at all, but you may wish to adopt the recommendation to look for the label certifying it as meeting NSF/ANSI standard 53.
If you know or suspect the presence of specific contaminants in your water supply you might check if the filters you consider remove them from your water.
You may agree with the suggestion in the a.m. source that an activated carbon filter bearing NSF Standard 53 certification is a sensible choice, unless you have special requirements that you fear are not adequately covered.
In particular not all filters guarantee the complete removal of protozoan pathogen parasites (like Giardia and Cryptosporidium) if the water supply (say a polluted lake) is heavily charged with them. A simple check with the water utility (the municipal supplier of your water) would probably put at rest this concern.
The other drinking water filter types reviewed there are less convenient for home use either because they use energy or because they dispose of quantities of waste water or as they fail to remove specific contaminants.
From the review one reaches the impression that, while a perfect drinking water filter may be out of reach, many of the drinking water filters offered in commerce are quite adequate for normal use.
The last recommendation deals with the maintenance. Drinking water filters are not made to install and forget them. You still have to change the cartridges periodically, like you would in your car. That is all you need to get a continuous supply of the good and safe drinking water you and your family deserve.
About the Author:
Elia E. Levi is a retired engineer.
After researching the subject of drinking water quality and of home water filters and purifiers, he set up a website where he proposes the results of his inquiry for all to consider, to reach independently their conclusions.
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