Filtered Water – and why Water Filters are gaining popularity

Water filters could finally be winning the war in the filtered water vs bottled water argument.  We're all concerned about the quality and safety of our tap drinking water – both at home and at the office,  and whether to use filter-tap-bottled water.  Initially, these concerns sparked significant growth in the bottled water industry over the last decade only to have bottled water seen as no better, and less environmentally friendly than tap water. Bottled water, by comparison, is also outrageously expensive when compared to filtered water.

So, how is filtered water better than bottled water or tap water? And why should you install water filters and an office water cooler to provide drinking water?

The simple truth is that the most recent technological and biological innovations around water safety have focused on filtered water, because both forms of water are passed through water filters as part of their production process – and assuming both are filtered to safe quality levels –bottled water also requires some form of container (which is usually plastic), and then to transport each bottle to the user who’s  drinking the water.  And we all know that plastic is clogging our landfills, our waterways, and affecting our ecosystems.

The water filters in the filtration systems work by removing impurities from water, which is passed through a fine physical barrier in most cases, or using a chemical adsorption (bonding) process. There’s a simple solution to the filter-tap-bottled question: a filtered water cooler can be used to filter the impurities from tap water before it is dispensed into a glass for direct consumption. The filtered office water cooler contains the water filters (integrally plumbed), so it's a single unit and takes up almost no additional space.

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