A Look Inside Water Filters

Water filters are one of the wonders of the home appliance business.  While tap water is genuinely clean and drinkable, there is something about it that just is not quite right about how it tastes.  Most likely, you can taste the chlorine that was used to help clean it out.  Besides the chlorine, there are sometimes other particles or chemicals still in the tap water that was left after the cleaning process.  For this reason alone people choose to install an Everpure filter and the like into their water system.  But what goes on inside a water filter; how does it clean water and make it drinkable?  Read on to find out.

Many filters use a medium that captures, absorbs, or changes the pollutants in the water that passes through it.  Different filters use different methods to clean out the water.  There are several kinds of filters: activated carbon, sediment, reverse osmosis, and ceramic filters.

• Activated carbon filters use organic materials like coal and wood to capture contaminants as the water passes through it.
• Sediment filters use a fine sieve that reduces the amount of dirt and other particles in the water.
• Reverse osmosis filters work by allowing water molecules to pass through an ultra-thin membrane that captures the larger particulate matter.  This is sometimes used in conjunction with activated carbon filters.
• Ceramic filters are great in cleaning out water of sediments and harmful bacteria.  They can also be easily cleaned by simply taking out the ceramic piece and taking a soft brush to it.