Counter Top Water Filters for Home and Office

Countertop water filters offer the most effective means of providing you and your family with good tasting drinking water and is the highest technology available for treatment of drinking water.

Our water supply contains literally thousands of potentially harmful contaminates, bacteria , chlorine, pesticides, herbicides, pharmaceuticals, personal care products and high levels of lead and mercury. Point of use filtration and purification such as countertop water filters have proved effective in treating this threat to our health.

Bottled water seems to be the solution of choice for many people. In the home, in the car, jogging, shopping people are drinking bottled water. They choose bottled water for taste, because they believe it is safer then tap or public water, as a substitute for less healthy drinks such as soda and because it is easy to obtain. Bottom line; bottled water costs big bucks per gulp and creates mountains of plastic refuse. Not to mention the hazards of plastics leaching harmful byproducts into the water they contain.

What kind of water filter is best? A good drinking water filter will balance mineral content and the pH level. Distillers are old technologies that block trace minerals our bodies need and leave the water with an acid pH. You need to check the required product performance data, no data drop it and move on, you are looking for certified removal of VOCs, THMs, benzene, alachlor, atrazine, lindane, TCE and MTBE. It’s also a good idea to check the rate of flow you don’t want to wait five minutes for glass to fill. Flow rate should be at least 25 gallons per hour.

A countertop water filter or an under counter filter in your kitchen is the least expensive and most environmentally sound way to have good clean water for drinking and food preparation.