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Category: Water Softener

When a water filtration system is what your whole house needs

A whole house water filter can be installed at the point of entry (POE) inside a home, office building, church building, or other establishments. It’s typically installed at the water mains. A system installed for the whole house basically contains a sediment cartridge and a carbon cartridge in that order.

Your whole house may need a water filter if:

  • Water to your whole house contains sediment, iron, arsenic or other well water-related contaminants.  An effective sediment filter can be installed at the water main to reduce these chemicals.
  • You are tired of the unwanted chlorine smell in through out your whole house. According to EPA, “By filtering all the water that enters your home, you not only greatly enhance the quality of your household water, but you also dramatically improve your indoor air quality.”
  • You want to improve taste, odor and feel of your drinking and showering water and you don’t want to buy separate filters for your showerhead, refrigerator, and countertop or under the sink.
  • You want to filter large amount of water to your whole house where countertop, undersink, or pitcher will not suffice.
  • You need a system that can filter and soften your hard water at the same time, saving you installation costs for a separate filter and a softener

You want to “go green” and everyone in your household can bottle their own filtered water with an environmentally reusable and refillable water bottle—like glass, stainless steel, or a safe plastic bottle—to carry water to gym, bike, hike, office, or to an outdoor event. You are thereby helping the environment, and your wallet.

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Buy a water filter or purifier for performance and not because it’s cheaper

“If you cannot buy a car that has not been put through various kinds of safety testing, you should avoid a water treatment unit that has not been tested and verified.”

Do you shop for the cheapest home water filter or a “discounted” home water treatment unit, or do you look for the one that can do the job right?

Has the cheaper water treatment unit been verified and tested for its performance?

What criteria do you use when choosing the right water treatment?

This is a health issue.

Whether you are looking for the best distiller for your home or the best water purifier for your camping need, it is important that you buy a unit that has been tested and verified by an independent organization like the NSF International, Water Quality Associations, or Underwriters Laboratories.

These three organizations work in concert so an approval by one is most like good for the others.

NSF International tests and certifies drinking water treatment devices to the standard appropriate for the technology of the product. NSF does not “rate” or “rank** water treatment systems, rather each system is tested against its own claims.

Some people will rather walk into a store and just buy one on display or one that is recommended by the sales people.

That’s okay.

But if you have tested your water and know exactly what you need to remove or reduce from your water, you should check the labels on the filter to be sure it has the NSF/ANSI label.

NSF Standards are categorized as follows:

NSF/ANSI Standard 42 – Aesthetic Effects
NSF/ANSI Standard 53 – Health Effects
NSF/ANSI Standard 58 – Reverse Osmosis
NSF/ANSI Standard 44 – Cation Exchange Water Softeners
NSF/ANSI Standard 55 – Ultraviolet Microbiological Water Treatment Systems
NSF/ANSI Standard 62 – Distillation Systems
NSF/ANSI Standard 177 – Shower Filtration Systems

So, if you are looking for best water filters that can remove heavy metals from your drinking water, you need a filter that has been verified and tested for the ability to remove the contaminants. Another example is that not many water filters have been tested and certified to remove arsenic in water.

Any filter can remove solids or contaminants but by how much?

NSF-certified water filters and other treatment units have been rigorously tested for claims to reduce contaminants to a level that is safe to drink. If you are concerned with arsenic or other metals in your water, your first consideration is to look for one with proven performance; then think about the short time cost and the long time benefits.

A cheap filter now may cost you more in the future.

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Water Softeners To Be Banned

If your water is critically hard,
can you afford not to have a water softener?

I have discussed on this forum about the environmental benefits of water softeners.  I also mentioned that some municipalities are trying to ban this water treatment device.  This is happening in California, as we speak.

I think their reasons do not have any solid environmental basis.  I think some of their concerns don’t even make a solid scientific sense as reported in this magazine.

It’s a fact that discharges from water softeners are high in salinity.  But the salinity problem is blown out of proportion.

Water Qualilty Assoication (WQA) and other organizations have been looking for a way to stop this bias against water softeners. WQA has page on its website for visitors to protest this unfair decision to ban water softeners.  The title of the protest letter is “Don’t Let Politicians Take Your Water Softener.”

You can go to this site and voice your opinion.

Water softeners do have a lot of environmental benefits that are being overlooked.


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