The Combination of an Iron Water Filter and Charcoal Water Filter Did the Trick

The Combination of an Iron Water Filter and Charcoal Water Filter Did the Trick

Studies are now showing that polluted water might be one of the major contributors to disease and bad health. Not only is sleep, eating healthy and exercise important but drinking water too. Of course you probably already know that but it's not ok to just drink any tap water anymore, but to drink the right type of water.

Our family is from a very rural area and therefore we don't have access to the municipality's water supply. Hence we have a water well but there is so much iron in the water that the water is actually off color, our bathtub is stained and the taste of the water is not good.

The first time we installed a water filter, we ended up spending so much because of the constant maintenance costs. The amount of iron in our water far exceeded the capability of the iron water filter.

We ended up spending a lot of money changing the system and installing a new one. To cut a long story short, we now use water filter softeners with extra filtering before the main pump to catch excess sedimentation.

Because the softener is using so much salt, our water tasted even worse, however this time it was not a metallic taste but a salty taste.

We were then recommended to install a charcoal water filter for our drinking water supply. Our neighbors actually recommended we give it a try since they had a similar set up to us and noticed a considerable difference in the taste of water after installing this new type of filtering system.

A charcoal water filter is not at all expensive and far cheaper than a whole house filtration set up, purely because you are only filtering your drinking water. You can get a filter for your faucet, or a fridge water filter or pitcher that uses charcoal to filter our sodium in the water.

It seemed more expensive to install this filter on the sink faucet because we use the same faucet for washing dishes and hands. So we thought it would be cheaper in the long run just to put our drinking water into the charcoal filter pitcher and drink it from there.

Our water does taste a lot better but there are still maintenance costs involved. But, if we compare the cost of drinking water at home against buying bottled water, it works out cheaper to have whole house water systems filtering iron and a charcoal filter for the salty taste.

Had we done proper research from the start we would have saved ourselves a lot of extra money.

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