There are a few different types of water filters available on the market at the moment, but almost all drinking water filters employ carbon as the primary fitration medium. Carbon filters are used to remove a wide variety of chemical pollutants and are especially effective on organic chemicals, such as pesticides, herbicides and industrial chemicals. They’re also effective in removing radon, chlorine as well as bad odours and tastes in the water supply.

Good quality carbon filters can remove 80 to 99 percent of the organic chemicals, radon, chlorine and bad tastes and odours in water. However, they don’t remove microorganisms or toxic minerals. Only a high quality reverse osmosis system can remove 99.99% of drinking water pollutants.

Carbon filters have a rather short lifetime, manufacturers of full-size carbon filters claim their filters are effective for 2,000 gallons of water or more, but it is recommended that many carbon filters be changed every six months depending on the brand.

Changing your water filter will ensure optimum performance and will minimise the chances of pollutant breakaway. Small carbon filters that attach to a faucet may even have to be replaced every few months. You should check with your supplier about the replacement time periods. If you are on a service contract with your water filter provider they will most probably come out and change the filter for you when it needs to be changed.

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Everyone knows water has wonderful benefits for our health, we need it to live and our bodies are made are largely made up of water. It’s safe to say without it we would not survive, but some water is not suitable for consumption and that’s where water filters come in. 

Water filters make our dirnking water even more healthy and safe for us to drink and use for cooking, bathing and washing. World-wide water filtration systems are in use to ensure that clean water is available for human consumption.

Drinking water comes from a variety of different sources including rivers, lakes, ponds, springs, rain and snow and natural water can be hard or soft and contain many pollutants from the environment. Mostly the water gets contaminated by bacteria, viruses, organic and inorganic substances.

There are also a lot of contaminants left in the water by the time we get to drink it, these include rust and sediments, bacteria, parasites, lead, and other chemical poisons, all of which no one wants floating around in their drinking water that’s for sure. So to ensure our water is clean for domestic or industrial use, water filters are routinely used for the following reasons:

1. Water filters remove dust particles from water.

2. Filtration removes contaminants like fungi, cryptosporidium and protozoa gardia from the water.

3. Filters remove harmful substances like lead from drinking water.

4. Bacterial and viral contaminations are also removed.

5. The filtration process effectively removes excess chlorine, its by-products.

Among all water purification systems filtration is the least expensive and does not require huge amounts of electricity, it’s also efficient and does not waste water in its operation.

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There are many items in our households that require water besides the humans, our showers, our washing machines and the likes. As they all use water, there are water filters available for them to ensure the water is pure and clean when it’s being used. Here is a list of the top seven types of water filters you can purchase for your home:

1. Water Jug
If you only want to be drinking clean water rather than using it in your everyday life then the water jug filter is the way to go. A water jug filter is inside a specially made pitcher with a filter at the top and you have to pour water in slowly as it will start to filter the water through to the bottom of the container, it can be time consuming though.  

2. Faucet
The Faucet filter is an attachment which hooks up to the faucet spout and you have the choice to turn the filter on to dispense cleaner water or turn it off if you do not want to waste the cleaner. There isn’t much water pressure with these and they can look a little out of place in designer kitchens as they are exposed.

3. Refrigerator
The Refrigerator filter is becoming more popular as people purchase refrigerators with water and ice dispensers on the door. This hooks up inside the door and assists in producing better tasting ice and water.

4. Under Sink
Under sink filters are great and it keeps clutter from being on top of the counter or faucet. They require a professional installation and you will have to give up some room under your sink cabinet to make space for this larger item.

5. Shower
The Shower filter does just that, filters the shower water so it’s free of contaminants. Usually if people want good water for their bathrooms they will have a whole house water filter installed over a shower filter.

6. Laundry
The Laundry Filter is used by people who like to use water free from hard water deposits on their clothes, but usually people will install a whole house filter over just a laundry filter.

7. Whole house
The whole house water filter is the new must have appliance that people are having installed in their homes when building a brand new home. It makes sense to do this when you’re having all the other appliances installed, so why not get your whole house sorted for purified water at the same time.

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Water filters are essesntial to all types of water coolers and fountains as they remove chlorine, limescale and other impurities that cause bad taste and odour from your mains water supply so just about everyone should benefit from a home water filtration system.

Even if chlorine were the only contaminant in your tap water (it’s significant to note that chlorine is in everyone’s tap water), there are important health benefits to using chlorine-free water. People who have pools or even pet fish knows that chlorine can kill as its sole purpose as a pesticide is to kill living cells and organisms.

When we consume chlorine, no matter how small the amount, it’s not healthly for our bodies. Chlorine has recently been linked to cancer, birth defects, heart disease and many serious illnesses.

However the nasties in tap water don’t stop at chlorine. More than 90% of all water systems in the United States contain traces of at least ten synthetic chemicals and lead. A recent report stated, “After reviewing over 10,000 pages of EPA documents acquired through the Freedom Of Information Act… over 2100 chemicals that can cause cancer have been detected in U.S. tap water.”

Because water utilities only test for about 75 contaminants, there could be plenty more out there that we don’t know about. So in knowing the risks, it’s important people start implementing change within their homes starting with quality, in-home water filtration.

WaterCoolerFilters.co.uk is a joint venture between The Water Cooler Company and The Water Delivery Company. If you would like any further information on water filters please call us on 0845 500 4455 or email contact@WaterCoolerFilters.co.uk