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Pick The Right Drinking Water Filter System

When you're trying to get good clean water for your home, it's tempting to just pick up the $30 PUR filter and end your search there. The problem is, these small faucet-mounted water filter systems aren't necessarily the best ones for your needs.

If you drink a lot of bottled water, you may want a more involved drinking water filter system, like a reverse osmosis system; if you live in the country and get your water from a well or a spring, you want a filter that is exceptional with killing biological contaminants.
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If you already have good-quality water in your taps, you may just want to use the regular PUR or Brita type drinking water filter system. These filters use activated charcoal to filter out mostly biological contaminants, but also a few mineral contaminants, and deliver clean, good-tasting water to you. The less-used ceramic water filter systems work approximately the same way, but with diatomaceous earth instead of activated charcoal.

If your water is relatively unpleasant to drink and you find yourself spending a lot of money every month on bottled water, it might...
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Why Home Water Purifiers and Filters Are Important To You

With an aging water infrastructure and breakdowns becoming more common, home water purifiers and filters are increasing in importance. You are the last line of defense against contaminated water.

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Even "safe" municipal systems contain escalating levels of chlorine, which can make you sick, and may contain contaminants that, while safe, have an unpleasant odor and/or taste. If you start using a home water purifier, however, you can spare yourself the worry about problematic water supplies and start supplying your home with inexpensive bottled-quality water.

Your home water purifiers and filters are your last line of defense if your city water system does break down. Read the news. More often these days, we hear about some critical piece of infrastructure running into serious problems - steam pipes exploding in New York City, bridges collapsing in Minnesota, and let's not even talk about New Orleans.

City municipal water systems are also suffering from this infrastructure decay, but because the effects are less dramatic, you don't hear about it on the evening news. Instead, you may notice that your water smells more strongly of chlorine than you remembered, or that it's a...
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