Which Water Filter Removes the Most Contaminants?

Tap water has much contaminants and impurities of sand, rust, bacteria, organisms, free chlorine, etc. Some of them may cause severe body injuries if the tap water were not treated or filtered properly. On the market, there are dozens of various water filters used for home water filtration and Reverse Osmosis Water Filter are now a widely-accepted good choice.

Mostly-see Contaminants in Water: Chlorine, Taste, Odor

Sometimes you may found your water has some bad smells of chlorine, rotten eggs and rust smell. Those bad odors come from residual of chlorine, foods in sewers and rusts in city water pipes. Every time you open the tap, those smells pops up and left in tap water.

Usually, many homeowners use a reverse osmosis water filter to deal with chlorine, bad tastes and odors. Most reverse osmosis water filters are designed with carbon water filter cartridges inside of them. Carbon filter cartridges are made of activated carbon which has a strong adsorb effects of chlorine, bad odors and smells.

Large Contaminants: Rust, Sand, Silt

Our tap water comes from water supply factories and second pollution may happen during the transportation from water factories to our home. Rust, sand, silt and some other large contaminants emerge in tap water because of heavy rains, water pipes corrosion and some else reasons. The most effective and affordable water filter to eliminate those contaminant is PP spun sediment filter. Moreover, PP sediment filter is the first filter cartridges in a reverse osmosis water filter system. PP sediment filter cartridges have a 5 micron rating which is smaller than large contaminants. When unfiltered water flows through the filter, dense microfibers on pp filter intercept and block sand and rust clearly and completely. PP water filter cartridge is also the most popular water filter cartridge in domestic water filtration.

Chemical Residues and Heavy Metal Ions

If you take some tests of your tap water, the concentration of some metal ions and chemicals will make you shocked. Heavy metal and chemicals can not be resolved in water, and they injure liver and kidney a lot if drinking such kind of water for a long time. The reason why reverse osmosis water filter so popular is because of reverse osmosis membrane, the most core part of the water filter. The reverse osmosis membrane allows only pure water molecules flow through and blocks all of the rest impure substances of residual chemical substances and hazardous heavy metal ions like Arsenic, Lead, Mercury and Chromium.

Drinking Water Taste Improvement

Although reverse osmosis water filter purifies tap water very completely, the filtered water is pretty tasteless. That is because the filtered water is more like distilled water has no any other elements except pure water molecules. Considering of that, some reverse osmosis water filters are equipped with a post activated carbon filter which adds beneficial minerals and improves water taste a lot.