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Filter Your Water At The Tap Very Inexpensively - Put An On-Tap Water Filter On Your Kitchen Tap

Do I really need a water filter? Well, it partially depends if you are satisfied with your present Top Water. Your well water or your municipal water may taste fine but perhaps there's an odor that comes from it that you don't like. In this case, you want to look at some of the least expensive type of Water Filtration available, the Water Filters that attach to your kitchen sink faucet. These are called point of use water filters because they are used at the faucet versus plumbed into the main water line. These filters use the very popular Activated Carbon filtration method.

This is a brief description of three different types of water filtration methods available to the consumer today:

1. Activated Carbon; this is the most popular and widely used type of on-tap water filter. This type of filter will remove organic contaminants, which include chemicals that are most often responsible for odor or taste issues with your water. When water passes through this filter, the carbon particles attract and remove these contaminants, which may include lead, mercury, chlorine, copper and hydrogen sulfide.
Activated Carbon filters can be composed of a solid block, which contains activated carbon particles that are compressed into dense material which the water has to travel through.
It may instead contain a granular activated Carbon Filter, which as the title suggests, are granules of activated carbon which water has to pass through.

2. A resin filter is made up of a Filter Cartridge that contains resin's. These will remove contaminants such as heavy metals such as lead, and minerals that can cause deposits in kettles and coffee makers. Some filtration systems combine a resin filter with an activated carbon filter; this is a highly effective system to remove particles and also dissolve substances.

3. A particle filter contains a membrane to screen out particles based on their size. These filters are rated according to the number of microns of the pore size in the membrane. The smaller the micron number, the cleaner filter your water will be. So a .05 micron will be cleaner than a .5 micron. There's two types of materials that these filters will use.
a) a fiber filter, which will have larger pores that stop the dirt but will still allow contaminants that are dissolved to pass through.
b) a ceramic filter, which will be fine to screen out bacteria and parasites and other small particles... however, this filter will not disinfect water.

One thing all on-tap water filters have in common: it's important to remember to switch the valve on your kitchen tap water filter to bypass the filter when using Hot Water. Hot water may damage some of the filters components.

Some of the more popular on-tap water filter manufacturers are Brita, Pur, Culligan, Waterpik, Instapure, CrystaPure, Crystal Quest, and GE. Prices range from around $20 and upwards.

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