It is when unforeseen disasters that put our water supply at risk a water purification system can be crucial. It doesn’t have to be a point of entry (POE) also known as a whole house water purification system; but just a simple point of use device sink water purifier attached to your faucet can help reduce toxins from your drinking water and keep you and your family healthy during a water supply crisis.
Faucet mount filtration systems are one of the cheapest filtration devices. But it can be powerful in times of need. It can reduce lead, plastics, bad odor; remove sediment, rust, chlorine, asbestos, voc’s, pharmaceuticals, pesticides and benzene.
You can get a faucet mount filter for about $15-$50 dollars. So this is not something that will break the household budget.
Not all faucet mount water filters reduce the same number or type of contaminants. For example Performance Data Sheets or user’s manuals often include NSF/ANSI certifications and details of what a specific model will reduce. More about what these certifications mean here.
Something to be aware of is that some water faucet mount filters can reduce water flow. In some cases the reduction can be really significant. In others, it may be small enough that you would be willing to make the tradeoff for the benefits.
Table of Contents
- Chemicals in My Water
- Product Reviews
- Faucet Mount Water Purifiers
- Bottom Line On Faucet Mount Filtration
Chemicals in My Water
Water is essential to all living things but is your water safe.
We don’t have to look very far to be concerned about this question. Just a look at the evening news, we see stories about how water in some cities within the USA have become unsafe to drink and have boil water advisories. Contamination can be found during testing where the water supply has been breached by bacteria, chemical leaks from external sources like trucks carrying dangerous chemicals becoming involve in an accident, storms like hurricanes and other natural disasters. We saw this with Katrina.
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To find out what’s in your water you can collect and send a sample off to the lab. Once the results are returned you’ll have a better idea of toxins in your water. Then you will be better able to determine which faucet filter has the certification to do the job.
You can also retest after you install the faucet mount filter to relieve your mind of any doubts that it is really filtering the contaminants you want out of your water.
Product Reviews
Amazon is a good place to get product reviews and complaints from actual customers and it’s free.
Just because a products filter is NSF certified does not mean there may not be complaints about specific product that could include things like durability over the long-term which is also important.
Another valuable resource is, Consumer Reports well respected and have been around since 1936. They test and rate a wide range of consumer products. They are not free but charge a yearly fee at this time of $39 a year to get access to
reports and ratings. There is also a monthly option of $10.
Faucet Mount Water Purifiers
What a tap water faucet mounted filter is not.
It is not a water purifier but a filter.
Water purification is a more complex process that not only involves tap water filtering but adds other processes which can include any of the following:
- Reverse osmosis
- Distillation
- UV light for disinfection
- Deionization
Bottom Line On Faucet Mount Filtration
Faucet mounted filters work. But you get what you pay for; they are low end when compared to more sophisticated technologies available in higher end products which cost a lot more like countertop and under sink point of use systems. Cost can be into the hundreds and even thousands of dollars depending on your filtration needs.