The Water Softener Blog

Clean water isn’t just a luxury—it’s a necessity.  But with so many water filtration products on the market, the term “water filter” can mean very different things depending on who you ask. For the average consumer, a water filter might mean a faucet-mounted device or a refrigerator cartridge. For water treatment professionals, it could mean a whole-house filtration system designed to tackle iron, manganese, arsenic, lead, radium, chlorine, odors, turbidity, and much more. In this first post of our " Water Filter Series" , we’ll focus on one of the most common and widely misunderstood types of filtration: F ilter housings with replaceable cartridges , used at both the Point of Entry (POE), whole house and Point of Use (POU), under sink . This subject can become very complicated but in this article we are going to focus on the most common filter housings and types of filter cartridges used in homes today.  What Are Water Filter Housings? A filter housing is a durable c...

Water filters cover the gambit from simple faucet filters, refrigerator filters, in-line filters to filter housings with a replaceable filter cartridge to all types of whole house backwashing / regenerating filtration systems that remove, iron, odors, manganese, radium, lead, turbidity and a plethora of other water problems.  This subject covers such a wide range of water problems it could take many blog articles to cover just the basics of water filtration.   One thing I know for certain though is what the typical consumer considers a water filter and what a water treatment professional would consider a water filter are totally different.