How Do Ceramic Water Filters Work? And Do They Work Well?

by Peter Abertoning

Would you really need to purify your water? Why? Isn’t our tap water safe enough to drink? Sadly it isn’t safe enough to drink, and so many people are starting to realize that it is necessary to use a water purification system like a ceramic water filter to purify and clean your tap water.

Believe it or not there are up to 2100 toxic chemicals in our tap and drinking water according to the Ralph Nader Institure with stuff like heavy metals, lead, PCBs, pesticides, drugs like antibiotics and much more than that.

So if you’re thinking of using a ceramic drinking water filter how would it work? It works by ensuring that water is forced through extremely tiny holes that are in the filter material. That way any molecules larger than the size of a water molecule are removed. These extremely tiny holes are created by a filtering substance known as Diatomaceous Earth. This is made up of millions of tiny fozzilesed shells that were deposited millions of years ago. These are made into the filter material used in ceramic water filters.

This Diatomaceous Earth filter has extremely tiny holes through which the water passes, thus removing contaminants.

But this doesn’t remove all contaminants. One that isn’t removed is bacteria, so colloidal silver is also added to the filter to remove the bacteria.

Ceramic water filters have been around for over 100 years.

But is a ceramic water filter the best water filter? Maybe they’re over 100 years old, but that doesn’t mean they’re the best. And after reading about those 2100 toxic chemicals you may be thinking that you need the best water filter that money can buy.

And modern water filtration systems are extremely good and produce water that is cleaner than any naturally occurring water source anywhere in the world. And way cleaner than bottled water.Are ceramic water filters the best water filters?

Unfortunately there are some problems with ceramic water filtration. They are good drinking water filters, but not the best. Here’s the problems.

The big issue is that you won’t filter out chlorine with a ceramic filter. And although we need chlorine in our water you really don’t need to be drinking chlorine, so you need to filter it out. The best water filters will remove 99.9% of chlorine and that’s what you want. A ceramic filter won’t filter chlorine.

And the filter material can develop small hairline cracks that you can’t see. If there’s hairline cracks in your filter then nasties get through, even though you won’t know it. Then you think you’re drinking clean water and you’re not.

And there is one more problem. The FTC isn’t happy with using colloidal silver to filter bacteria, it doesn’t believe that this works sufficiently well.

So ceramic filters aren’t the best. And if you don’t clean them regularly and replace the filter they get worse over time.

The worlds best water filters are extremely effective at filtering just about every nasty from your drinking water.

But if you’ve got a ceramic filter it’s way better than drinking tap water.

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