How Do Carbon Water Filter Cartridges Work?
Americans are blessed to have tap water readily available anytime they are thirsty, but many people don’t consume the water from their house. According to Statista, over one-third of people nationwide don’t drink their tap water. However, this can be expensive because you must constantly purchase bottled water. In addition to costs, using hundreds of plastic bottles isn’t good for the environment. Carbon water filter cartridges can help you enjoy the water in your home again.
Absorption Process
Carbon water filters don’t just filter water like other filters. Instead, these cartridges utilize the power of activated carbon. Carbon has a large surface area and is known to be exceptionally porous. Our catalytic carbon media helps reduce chlorine and chloramine levels along with other offensive tastes and odors. This makes it exceptional compared to other filters, which only filter certain chemicals.
Heavy Metal Removal
One of the reasons why carbon water filter cartridges continue to increase in popularity is their ability to remove a lot of heavy metals from water. Heavy metals often give water a metallic taste, but other water filters only remove a small amount compared to activated carbon filters. This makes them especially useful in households experiencing smells from well water, which is known for being full of impurities.
Removing Impurities
There are many other things these filters can remove. Pharmaceuticals continue to be discovered in drinking water. This means you may take trace amounts of other people’s medicines without knowing it. Lead is a serious contaminant found in service lines coming into your home, PFAS, PFOS, GenX, and other forever chemicals are forever present in our water. Brita PRO Water filters can significantly reduce these undesirable “additives” in your water.
Certain filters can also help remove herbicides, pesticides, chlorine, phosphates, and more. Most water filters remove some of these chemicals, making carbon filters essential to enjoy pure, healthy drinking water.
Large Surface Area
Most people are concerned they’ll have to replace carbon filters frequently. However, activated carbon (also known as activated charcoal) is very porous; it has a massive surface area. This means that filters with activated carbon can filter a lot of impurities before they need to be changed. These filters can often outlast comparable filters without activated carbon because of the carbon’s porous nature and surface area. Carbon is a natural purifier.
At Mitten Water Solutions, we work hard to ensure your family’s safety when it comes to your water. We want to provide you and your family with the healthiest water possible. Our company specializes in many different water treatment solutions for water filtration and water softener systems. Contact us at Mitten Water Solutions to learn more today.
