| The manufacturers of sediment water filters have | | | | disinfect our water was once used a chemical |
| enjoyed a fair number of sales over the last couple | | | | weapon? |
| of years using an advertising campaign designed to | | | | It is impossible for the porous membrane filters of |
| catch the eye of mostly suburban homeowners. | | | | the water treatment facilities to eliminate chemical |
| These filters range from simple sand traps, to | | | | contaminants from our drinking water, so obviously |
| electricity driven equipment like reverse osmosis filter | | | | sediment water filters aren't going to help you here |
| systems. These filters serve a purpose, but not for | | | | either. |
| the average homeowner. | | | | Expensive, wasteful reverse osmosis equipment |
| If you are one of the millions that have their water | | | | features an activated carbon filter that will remove |
| supplied by municipal water treatment facilities, then | | | | chemical matter from your water. What are you |
| you have absolutely no need for a filter system that | | | | going to do about cysts and toxic heavy metals |
| removes silt and sand. | | | | though? |
| This is because one of the main objectives of the | | | | Cysts are chlorine resistant parasites that are a |
| treatment facility is to strain your water for | | | | threat to the health of everyone that drinks |
| particulates. The water travels through porous | | | | unfiltered tap water. |
| membrane filters that get progressively smaller as | | | | A special filter that uses sub micron technology is |
| they go, and this removes all but microscopic | | | | necessary in order to effectively remove these |
| particles. | | | | microbes from your water. |
| There isn't a sediment water filter on the market | | | | Toxic heavy metals such as copper and lead are |
| that is going to collect a large number of particulates | | | | eliminated through the use of an ion exchange, which |
| from water that has been through the treatment | | | | swaps sodium and potassium for the heavy metals in |
| facility. | | | | your water and also balances your pH levels. |
| Their equipment is designed for demineralization, so | | | | A sediment water filter is needed in places where the |
| you don't have to worry about particulates showing | | | | only available water comes from wells, and a simple |
| up in your water. | | | | sand trap will do just fine here. |
| What you do have to worry about though is | | | | Some people dependant on well water choose to use |
| everything that the treatment facilities do not | | | | reverse osmosis filter systems, because they |
| remove from your water. | | | | perform demineralization and reduce chemicals. They |
| Did you know that just about every one of the | | | | would be better off with the same countertop tap |
| 80,000 industrial chemicals we use everyday in order | | | | water system people in the suburbs should be using, |
| to make our lives easier ends up in the water supply? | | | | and using the low budget sediment filter to trap sand |
| How about the fact that the favored method for | | | | and silt. |
| disposing of out of date pharmaceuticals is flushing | | | | Sediment water filters may not be useful to |
| them down the toilet as recommended by the | | | | everyone, but a tap water purifier featuring granular |
| pharmaceutical companies? | | | | activated carbon, submicron technology, and an ion |
| Do you realize that the chemical used most often to | | | | exchange certainly will be. |