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EWG's New Online Water Filter Buying Guide

EWG's New Online Water Filter Buying Guide Washington, D.C. – The Environmental Working Group has released its new online water filter buying guide with more options and new tips for consumers who want cleaner drinking water for themselves and their families. “Having clean and safe drinking water isn’t a privilege, it’s a right,” said Paul Pestano, an EWG research analyst and a lead researcher on the new filter guide. “However, in the real world much of America’s drinking water contains ...[READ MORE]

Food And Water Watch – Guide To Safe Tap Water

Food and water watch has put together a video and guide for safe tap water and how to chose a water filter. Take Back the Tap Guide to Safe Tap Water Tap water is tested more frequently for safety concerns than bottled water, but the water quality reports issued by local utilities can be confusing to read. Use this guide to help understand these reports and why they are important. Then get tips on finding the right filter for your household tap water based on the water quality in your ...[READ MORE]

Dr. Mercola and Houston Tomasz of Aquasana Deceiving Customers! part 2

In a previous post, I discussed Dr. Mercola and his deceptive advertising of his water filter (the "pure and clear" water filter made by Aquasana aka "sun water systems"). In that post Dr. Mercola discusses the importance of NSF certification and at the 8 minute mark in the video, the words "NSF CERTIFIED" pop up on the video screen, insinuating that their water filters have been certified by NSF. So, today I clicked on the video, and I got the error message "this video has been removed". I was ...[READ MORE]

Whats the Best Water Filter? Multi-Pure vs. Aquasana & Brita

Comparing Water Filters How do we compare one water filter to another? Source: http://whatsthebestwaterfilter.com/CompareWaterFilters.htm  Written by Yolanda White Comparing water filters is hard because most of them do not clearly have the information on their web site as to which chemicals their filters remove, and many are not even certified by NSF. Beware of companies who make claims which are not backed up. Anyone can make a claim about anything. There are hundreds of water filters and to ...[READ MORE]

Why I Recommend The Multipure Water Filter Over All Other Filters

Why I Recommend The Multipure Water Filter Over All Other Filters Some of my readers may say that this is a biased opinion since I am a distributor for the Multipure company and that I am only trying to sell water filters. Well...to tell you the truth, I am a distributor for several other water filter companies as well as Multipure. I have been in the water filter business now going on 7 years. I temporarily worked for Rain Soft, but I didn't stay with them because in my opinion their products ...[READ MORE]

The basics of common water filter technologies

Although there are hundreds of brands of home water filters, they all rely on a small number of technologies to remove contaminants, That does not mean that every filter using a given technology is as good as another, but it does mean that you can get a good idea of the general pros and cons of the different systems relatively easily. A few tips to keep in mind when looking at filters: •Some filters use a combination of technologies, while others rely on a single one. •To ensure that a filter ...[READ MORE]