Thursday, February 26, 2009

How Do Ceramic Water Filters Work? Are They Good Water Filters?

By Peter Abertoning

Why would anyone consider filtering water? Isn't our tap water good enough to drink? Sadly no, and so many people are turning to water purification using such water filtration systems as ceramic water filters and other water filtration methods.

Believe it or not there are up to 2100 toxic chemicals in our tap and drinking water according to the Ralph Nader Institure with stuff like heavy metals, lead, PCBs, pesticides, drugs like antibiotics and much more than that.

How does a ceramic drinking water filter work? It works by forcing water through tiny holes so that contaminants with molecule sizes bigger than the molecule size of water are filtered out. The tiny hole is created by using a filtering substance made of what is called Diatomaceous Earth. This is a substance made up of huge numbers of tiny fossilised shells from millions of years ago. It is manufactured into the filter mechanism of what is known as a ceramic filter.

It works because it produces tiny tiny holes that the water is forced through.

But this doesn't remove all contaminants. One that isn't removed is bacteria, so colloidal silver is also added to the filter to remove the bacteria.

Ceramic water filters have been around for over 100 years.

Are ceramic water filters the best water purification method? Just because they're old doesn't mean they're the best. And if you're worried about drinking tap water that is contaminated with hundreds of different you want the best.

The good news is that modern water filtration systems are extremely effective, and produce extremely clean water, cleaner than water that you would find in any naturally occurring water source in the world, and much cleaner than bottled water, (which isn't very clean at all).

Unfortunately there are some problems with ceramic water filtration. They are good drinking water filters, but not the best. Here's the problems.

The big issue is that you won't filter out chlorine with a ceramic filter. And although we need chlorine in our water you really don't need to be drinking chlorine, so you need to filter it out. The best water filters will remove 99.9% of chlorine and that's what you want. A ceramic filter won't filter chlorine.

Hairline cracks can also develop in ceramic filters and is this happens you can find that contaminants can get through without you knowing it. So you think your drinking water is clean and it isn't.

And there is one more problem. The FTC isn't happy with using colloidal silver to filter bacteria, it doesn't believe that this works sufficiently well.

So ceramic filters can be good, but modern water filtering technology can be better than a ceramic filter. And you need to clean them regularly or else they block up and don't work.

And there are some excellent water filtering options out there now, which will remove just about everything you need removed from your water.

But if you've got a ceramic filter it's way better than drinking tap water.

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