Water Filter Cartridge – Why it is the Most Important Part in Your Water Purification Unit

The most important part of a home water purification system is the water filter cartridge. You might think the mechanics of the system is more important, but the way I see it the mechanics or parts of the unit can be repaired or replaced, but if the water filter cartridge is defective and you don’t know it, you could be drinking contaminated water when you thought you were drinking safe water.

Or another thought is if you bought the water purification system because you thought the water filter cartridge was one that was removing all the dangerous contaminates from the water, and the cartridge only had the technology to remove a few of the toxic chemicals in our water supply you would be very disappointed to find out you bought the wrong unit.

There are many units on the market, that don’t remove the nasty things in our water. Take for example a reverse osmosis system. Unless the reverse osmosis system has additional filters in combination with the membranes used for the reverse osmosis process, you are only removing the minerals in the water.

There is controversy over leaving the minerals in or taking them out of the water. I actually believe the minerals are good for us, thus I don’t want to take them out. Taking the minerals out will change the water from alkaline to acidic, causing our bodies to pull the minerals from our teeth and bones to compensate for the minerals that are not in the water.

Also the more acidic products we put into our bodies the more our bodies will produce free radicals. Free radicals are linked to cancer, because cancer cells grow in an acid environment. I don’t know about you, but if drinking water with natural minerals in it will help protect me from cancer growing in my body, I want that kind of water. So leave the reverse osmosis systems in the store. They aren’t good for removing the other dangerous chemicals that are molecularly smaller than water anyway, such as pesticides and herbicides.

If a unit has only one type of water filter cartridge you can be sure it won’t filter out everything that needs to be filtered out. You need more than one media to filter the various contaminates in our water. The granular activated carbon filters out a lot of contaminates such as chlorine, but even with the carbon filter many dangerous chemicals get through the filter.

The best water purification unit to purchase is one with a carbon filter, a sub micron filter, a multi block filter and an ion exchange, to filter out the heavy metals like lead. All of these filters in combination make for the best water filter cartridge technology on the market today.

So don’t delay, check online today for a water purification that will protect you and your family from all dangerous elements in our water supply. Don’t be fooled for a minute and think that what comes straight out of your tap without filtering is contaminate free. Believe me when I say it is not.