Are you worried that you may be consuming pollutants in your drinking water? Well, you can easily provide yourself and your family with clean drinking water with a reverse osmosis water filter right at home. Reverse Osmosis Systems are the easiest, most effective and economical means of providing safe and great-tasting water.

You can expect to pay anywhere from $200 to $500 for a good under-the-counter reverse osmosis water filter system. Considering what you’re protecting, your health and the health of those you love, this is a small price to pay for the guarantee of clean drinking water, and it’s a gratifying investment.

Does your water taste bad, or can you smell chemicals the water treatment plant put in it to kill bacteria? Whether your water comes from a municipal water-treatment plant, or from your very own well, there is sure to be harmful impurities. Reverse osmosis water filters deal with all of these contaminants effectively.

A water treatment plant filters out impurities such as silt, dirt, and other particulates. They also ensure that harmful bacteria, cysts, and viruses are killed. However, the chlorination chemicals municipalities add to the water to kill any parasites, are also harmful to people. These chemicals and dead parasites remain in the water that’s delivered to us. In addition to that, industrial and agricultural chemicals, and traces of pharmaceutical drugs are leaching their way into our water supplies everywhere. Independent studies are finding these pollutants in ground water and also in municipally treated water, as most plants aren’t equipped to deal with these pollutants.

A basic reverse osmosis water filter system is composed of at least two activated-carbon filters, and one reverse osmosis (RO) filter membrane. Together, they are capable of virtually eliminating all of these pollutants and parasites, to provide you with healthy, clean drinking water.

It’s a very simple process. Using your incoming water pressure, water is first forced through a carbon pre-filter, where many chemicals and particulates are stripped. Water then pressurizes the RO filter, which is a semi-permeable membrane with tiny pores. These microscopic pores are no bigger than 0.0005 um (five-ten-thousandths) microns in diameter. This is only very slightly larger than a water molecule itself. Water molecules are forced through the reverse osmosis water filter, then accumulate on the other side, and are stored in a tank. The larger-sized contaminates cannot fit through these tiny pores, and are effectively eliminated from the drinking water. These impurities are then flushed down the drain within the water stream.

When you open your dedicated tap on your counter top, the pressurized storage tank then forces the stored purified water through the carbon post-filter, further removing any odors and polishing the taste. What you get is great-tasting, clean drinking water, safe for you to drink and cook with. Reverse osmosis systems also allow you to tee into the water line to automatically feed your fridge and ice maker too.