Tap water in the UK is among the safest in the world; it goes through rigorous screening processes, which test for multiple parameters including bacteria and water-borne diseases.

If you’ve been drinking tap water all your life, you may be wondering if a water filter would make a difference in the quality of the water you’ve otherwise never had a problem drinking all these years.

Likewise, if you’ve been a fan of bottled water, you may wonder if a filter would make tap water a better alternative for you.

So, is switching to filtered water worth it? Should you consider installing a tap water filter, or is tap water ok to drink? And why should you switch to filtered tap water anyway?

This article examines all these issues and more to help you decide whether a water filtration solution is right for you.

If you’re looking to customise the level and type of filtration at various water outlets in your home, point-of-use water filters (POU) are the easiest way to achieve that.

Let’s say you want to drink alkaline water from your kitchen tap, but you don’t insist on bathing, showering or washing your clothes with alkaline water.

Installing a central water treatment solution (point-of-entry filter) won’t allow you to pick and choose the level and type of filtration you want at any given water outlet in your home.

A POU filter, on the other hand, will offer plenty of ways to experiment with water filtration, so you can get the quality you want and need.

To get up to speed with the best point-of-use filters for your home, read our summary below of best-in-line filter systems that will improve the water quality in your home.

Efficiency is the primary reason why residential water filters aren’t a feasible choice for certain business operations. Commercial water filters outperform home filtration units, especially when it comes to filtered water output.

That said, residential filter systems have become more performant and depending on the profile of your industry, you may very well get away with a high-performing residential unit, however, in certain cases, industrial requirements dictate the need for an industrial water purifier.

In this article, we’re examining the commercial applications that can benefit from a commercial water filter, the various types of industrial water purification systems, and the reasons you need to switch to a commercial water purifier.

Filter systems that aren’t equipped with a filter lifetime tracker system or a water quality analysis system, aren’t very forthcoming with information on when to replace your water filter cartridges or how much longer you can use them in your water filter system.

In the absence of such tracking and analysis tools, you must rely on the manufacturer’s indications, which can be rather vague sometimes.

What this essentially means is that you may be replacing your filter cartridges too often or less often than you should. So, how do you know when to replace filter cartridges if you don’t have a built-in filter lifetime tracker system?

There are a few simple ways to determine if it’s time to replace your filter cartridges, which we’re going to discuss in this article and help you maximise the service life of your cartridges in a safe way.