A Complete Water Filter System for Your Countertop

Countertop Water Filter System:

A Complete Water Filter System for Your Countertop

by Josh Day

Enjoy water this clear from a countertop water filter system. When you employ a water filter system for your kitchen faucet, you're actually strapping a miniature water treatment plant to your countertop.

A countertop water filter system is any water filter that's visible from, you guessed it, your countertop.

And that's about the only thing the wide variety of these water filters have in common.

Some are cylindrical towers while others are more oval-shaped. Some come in several tubes or cylinders, with tubing connecting each part, composing a multi-step filtration system, while others are coffeepot-like pitchers where filtration occurs in the lid area.

They all do have one thing in common, and that is carbon. Carbon can pull chlorine, volatile organic compounds, herbicides, pesticides, limited heavy metals (if the carbon is specially activated), and benzene out of your water stream as it leaves the tap. Carbon appears as little black particles, like charcoal. Whether you're using a simple countertop pitcher or a 5-stage water filter unit, you're guaranteed to run into carbon in the filtration process.

When used in filtration of an aquarium, yellow or even brown water will turn sparkling clear in hours if enough carbon is employed.

You'll taste the difference. Once you drink from a countertop water filter, tap water will never be the same -- you'll know when you're tasting unfiltered water.

Many countertop systems come with an indicator light that alerts you when the filter cartridge needs to be changed. Once so much impurities have passed through, carbon loses its "sticky" ability and becomes saturated and useless.

It's important to monitor your filter and be sure you're always running at an optimal level of filtration.

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