Home Water Treatment Options

Looking for smarter, better tasting water in your home? There are a wide array of treatment technologies available for your needs today. Choosing the one you want and need might be overwhelming. To help, we're summarizing the primary purpose of each:

Water Softening. Minerals like calcium and iron can build up in your water making it "hard." A water softener works to relieve your water from these minerals, making it softer along with your laundry, skin and hair.

Water Purification: Whether you want to take bad water and make it safe to drink or take good water and just make it better, purification systems are installed to improve the quality and taste of drinking water for human consumption.

Saltless Water Conditioning Systems: If you need a water treatment system but prefer not to use salt, one of the saltless water systems might be best for you. There are various types of saltless water systems including scale reduction systems, ultraviolet disinfection systems, filtration systems and RO whole house water treatment systems.

Water Filtration: With this system you can truly filter the water with a filter cartridge. They can be installed on the water pipes themselves or at the point where water enters the home.

Whole House Water Treatment Systems: Whether it is a water softener or filter, if it treats all the water throughout your house it is a whole house water treatment system. It depends on how many faucets you want to improve.

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New Generation of Cheap Water Filters: Inspired by Nature!

MIT engineers are testing out new and cheap ways to filter water, and all you need is a stick! Costly manmade filters are reliable, but unaffordable for the developing world. That's why scientist Rohit Karnik is testing out the technology beneath the bark of an ordinary tree!

According to Time, "The branch’s vascular system contains membranes designed to filter out microscopic air bubbles. Karnik found that those same membranes could filter out harmful bacteria as well, apparently as much as 99.9%." If you've ever heard of a tree's xylem, that is what he is talking about.

The possible health risks have not been confirmed, but there is no doubt we're taking filtration in a whole new direction!

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