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Clean Drinking Water From Carbon Water Filters With No Plastic Waste
If you are tired of your drinking water smelling and tasting like bleach, then you need carbon water filters to remove the offending smell and taste.
Carbon water filters use activated charcoal to remove chlorine and other impurities from your tap water supply. In addition to chemical impurities, carbon filters will remove bacterial contamination from your water.
Home filtration of water has become much more popular in recent years. There are several reasons.
Water that has been filtered through a carbon filter tastes just as good as but is much less expensive than bottled water. You can easily spend over a dollar per bottle of bottled water; however, you can filter your own water for pennies per gallon.
Carbon water filter users rarely run out of drinking water. Some filters will last up to six months before the cartridge needs to be replaced. This means that you always have the water you need and love to drink. There is no need to make a fast trip to the store for more bottled water.
There are a variety of carbon water filters that are available. One of the simplest is the water filtration pitcher. The pitcher holds approximately one gallon of water. It can be kept in a refrigerator to keep your water cold. Prices for the system begin at only twenty-five dollars and filters that last a couple of months each are from three to five dollars.
Another type of carbon filter screws onto the kitchen tap. These filters have a switch that allows you to have either tap water for washing dishes or filtered water for drinking. These units are only slightly more than a pitcher system. Filters cost about the same as for the pitchers and many systems have a meter that indicates time to change the filter.
Many refrigerators that have ice makers, and especially those with ice and water through the door have a carbon filter. Filters need to be changed approximately every six month in the fridge, otherwise, both ice and water begin tasting funny.
Under sink filters are also a convenient way to ensure that drinking water has been purified. While these systems may be more expensive, they do a very good job at filtering water for your family.
Whatever type of carbon filter that you choose, it is important that you make sure to change filters as directed. Filters that are not serviced as directed in their owner's manual can actually add more concentrated levels of impurities and bacteria into the water that you are drinking. Filters in pitchers should be replaced every two months and in refrigerators they should be replaced every six months.
Choosing to filter your own water is good for the environment. It saves the fuel that would have to be used to distribute cases of water to the various grocery, variety and warehouse club stores where we purchase water to take to our homes. In addition it saves the plastic that is used every day to make thousands of water bottles every day. Many of those bottles are thrown along the road side as litter.
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