SAFEWATER TECHNOLOGY™
The fact is that your decision to purchase a water filtration system, whether a counter top, under the counter, or whole house system, is an extremely important decision because it directly affects the health of everyone in your family or business. The other fact is that the safety of the water that is produced depends entirely on the quality of the filtration technology that is used. Frankly, many filters and filtration systems use lower quality components to increase their profits.
Our water filtration systems are based on a proprietary design called SAFEWATER TECHNOLOGY™. It’s a revolution in filter technology that provides you with safe, pure, clear water to drink, cook with, and bathe in. The technology is based on combining the most advanced filtration media while keeping your price as low as possible. In our counter top and under counter systems these four media are combined into two two or more filter cartridges that can be easily replaced.
Our systems guarantee removal of dangerous micro-organisms and provide you safe water at the lowest possible cost. Read more about these technologies by clicking on the items in the list below.
SAFEWATER TECHNOLOGY™ is the only technology, other than distillation that can guarantee your drinking water is free of cysts like giardia and cryptosporidium, mold, spores from organisms like anthrax, the entire spectrum of disease-causing bacteria and 99.95% of virus. It also provides a wide spectrum of other important benefits.
Reverse Osmosis (RO) Technology
Simple filtration technology involves some type of membrane that prevents particles of a certain size from passing through while letting water molecules pass through. The most common example of this technology is the ordinary coffee filter. Reverse Osmosis is similar to membrane filtration, but there are key differences. RO works by using pressure to force the solution of water and contaminants through a membrane. The contaminants are kept on one side of the membrane while the water passes through. The use of pressure make passage through the membrane occur in the reverse direction that would normally occur in a non-pressurized environment.
Typical RO water filtration systems consist of several components.
- a sediment filter to trap large particles.
- a catalytic activated carbon filter to trap organic chemicals and chlorine which will tend to attack and degrade RO membranes.
- The RO membrane filtration system.
- An optional second carbon filter that traps substances that pass through the RO membrane.
- An optional UV lamp for killing microbes that may have escaped the RO process.
The critical component in RO systems is, obviously, the RO membrane itself. Over time, it’s susceptible to undetected failure of the RO membrane. The pores in the membrane get larger and let more contaminants through. The quality of the membrane itself is the single greatest determining factor in this type of failure.
Modern cartridge-type filters are as effective as RO for removing contaminants, and with regular replacement are not subject to membrane failure.
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