What is a countertop water filter?
Everyone needs clean drinking water. But even with our modern advances in water technology, some places still struggle to have the best water quality, and may require an additional way to clean the water. So what is a countertop water filter?
Bacteria and heavy metals can sometimes still get into the municipal water supply. In 2008, The Associated Press did a five month investigation into the water supply of several major metropolitan areas and discovered pharmaceutical residues in their water.
If you live in rural areas, you may get your water from a well. Most well water, if used regularly, does not require a lot of treatment. However, wells are sometimes more susceptible to runoff from farms and fields that may have pesticide residues.
To combat either of these situations, you may decide to purchase a water filter to help eliminate some of the unwanted contaminants in your tap water.
There are several options for filtering your water, including reverse osmosis, distillation, and even UV filtration. The cost varies depending on the quality and quantity of water being filtered. However, the most common type of filtration unit is a carbon or charcoal type filter.
The carbon/charcoal filter can be purchased to install under a sink or sit on the counter. While the under-sink model will filter all the water that flows through the faucet that it is attached too, it is also usually more costly and you need to have some basic plumbing skills to install it properly.
The countertop water filter is the easiest and least expensive way to have a water filtration system. With a countertop model, it is as easy as attaching an adapter to the outlet of the faucet, then using the diverter on the adapter to force the water to the countertop water filter.
With a countertop water filter, you can easily have access to cleaner, healthier water.
A countertop water filter is a small device that cleans water while sitting on the counter next to a faucet. It battles contaminants and microbial pests, eliminating them from drinking water. They connect directly to the sink and remove things like cryptosporidium & giardia that cause stomach ills, pesticides lindane and atrazine, lead, mercury and chlorine. Most countertop water filter systems work through double filtration, the first of which is a Kinetic Degredation Fluxion (KDF) filter. KDF is a copper-zinc formulation that removes chlorine, lead, mercury, iron, and hydrogen sulfide from water supplies. It also can slightly reduce bacteria, algae, fungus and can even lime scale accumulation. A KDF filter works by taking electrons from one contaminant and transferring them with another. This changes harmful contaminants into new safe ones and passes them into the drinking water, while others are chemically bound to the KDF materials and do not pass into the filtered water at all. Th
