Iron Filters - Limited Protection Against Contaminated Tap Water

Now I see that they have gotten around to trying to sell iron filters to residential customers. The thing about these iron water filters is that they really don’t have much to offer you in the way of protection from the many contaminants that can be found in our water supply. They are too contaminant specific to offer you much help at all.

What these iron filters are primarily for is removing toxic heavy metals from your drinking water. They are highly recommended by some for their ability to effectively block iron, sulphur, manganese, sediment, and turbidity from your water, which is great. However there are thousands of contaminants in our water supply that these types of filters are not equipped to deal with.

These iron water filters will do absolutely nothing to protect you from all of the chemical agents that are in our water supply. There are about 2,100 of these chemicals in our water that are known to cause cancer in human beings. You need a filter that will effectively block these chemicals out. This is not the filter to do it with.

Another group of impurities that iron filters fail to deal with are the numerous parasites and cysts that breed in our water. These microscopic menaces will many times survive the chlorine disinfection process, and will make anyone who is unlucky enough to ingest them severely ill. This illness can often be fatal in the elderly, and in small children.

Iron water filters are too limited in what they can offer you, and at a starting price of around $400, they should be able to offer you much more. If you want to be able to remove heavy metals from your drinking water there is a much more affordable way in which to not only accomplish that task, but also get help with the other contaminants also.

Instead of iron filters what you need is an all around water purification unit that features an ion exchange filter. This filter removes metals from you water just as effectively as those other types of filters do.But the reason that they are named as they are is because when they trap these metal traces, they release sodium and potassium in its place.

What iron water filters don’t offer you is the protection that can be had by the combination of an activated granular carbon filter, a multi media block, and a sub micron filter. These three filters will effectively block 99% of all of the chemical and microbial contaminants that are currently present in your water. This combination is what you need if you want to feel totally safe.

You can buy the top rated counter top unit for a mere $125 dollars, which as we have learned is considerably less expensive than any of the iron filters that are available. This unit contains all four of the filters that have been mentioned, and with all of this protection in your counter top, your family can rest easy at night knowing that nothing can harm them.

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