Monday, 7 September 2009

The Advantages and Disadvantages of A Well Water Filter

By Derek Reeve

Are you someone that lives outside of the range of service of your local wastewater treatment facility, and are really in need of a well water filter? Most companies that sell well water filters would be quick to recommend that the answer to your problems is a home reverse osmosis system. This makes sense to a point, but it is not a complete solution.

Well water isnt the same thing as city water and a well water filter is a must. There is silt and other sediment in well water. This, however, is the least of your concerns if your home uses well water; there are more important things to make sure are filtered out of your water before it comes into your home.

Before you even start looking at well water filters for use in your home, you should have your water tested to find out what you need to be filtering out in the first place. A water test will let you know just whats in your water and help you find filters which can remove these impurities.

The average well water filter will usually contain what is known as an activated granular carbon filter, which is designed to remove many of the chemical contaminants that have been found present in our water supply. This filter will come nowhere close to blocking all of the many contaminants that threaten you however, and so more defense is needed.

Before I tell you what it is that you need in order for your water to be pure I want to warn any of you that are not looking at well water filters, but want a filter that will purify the water that the treatment facility is providing to then dont let any salesman try to convince you that a reverse osmosis system is the one that you home needs. They frequently try this ploy on unwitting customers.

What all of you need instead of a well water filter is a home water purification system that utilizes a multi pronged approach to defeating the evils that can be found in our drinking water. You need a system that stacks four essential filter to be exact, because these will cover all of the divisions of contaminants in our water supply that threaten to affect your heal.

While a well water filter may use activated carbon, which isnt a bad thing; they dont have multi filtration capabilities which can remove all of the most common chemical contaminants, submicron filters to catch any pathogenic microorganisms or ion exchange filtration to remove toxic metal particulates.

A well water filter is not the answer to all of your problems, but the right high quality purification system is within your reach. It often comes at a much better price too.

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