Drinking water/filtration
Hello and thanks to all in advance! I just got back from a long trip and noticed a ridiculous amount of empty 1 gallon bottles at the end. I have a filtration system at home but not sure if I wan...
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The countertop filter you are looking at has a media cartridge with layers of charcoal, kdf, calcite and mineral beads. The amount of media in each layer is too low to have sufficient contact time with water in order to adsorb chemical impurities, and correct taste and odor issues. I would rather buy a filter filled with only charcoal, from the same company.
An even better option would be to buy a reverse osmosis system. RO systems come in both countertop and under-sink configurations. They remove the most amount of contaminants compared with other filtration technologies, except distillation.
Here is a chart with percentages of contaminants removed from reverse osmosis.
https://www.wecofilters.com/blog/post/ro-nominal-rejection/
Since you're buying this for your RV, here are some popular undersink choices online that has electric pumps to boost pressure.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003ZZUBHE
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076FSQLMC
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LXE2CQM
Countertop RO choices for RV
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XY8CHL2
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GDGTKRY
An even better option would be to buy a reverse osmosis system. RO systems come in both countertop and under-sink configurations. They remove the most amount of contaminants compared with other filtration technologies, except distillation.
Here is a chart with percentages of contaminants removed from reverse osmosis.
https://www.wecofilters.com/blog/post/ro-nominal-rejection/
Since you're buying this for your RV, here are some popular undersink choices online that has electric pumps to boost pressure.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003ZZUBHE
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076FSQLMC
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LXE2CQM
Countertop RO choices for RV
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XY8CHL2
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GDGTKRY
