Chloramine Water Filters
Chloramine & Fluoride Water Filters
Drink Clean Water
This page describes the chloramine water filters and the chloramine and fluoride water filter offered by friendsofwater.com There are many pages within our site with additional information on the need for water filters and why we have selected the filters that we offer.
We have two interlinked sites, the main www.friendsofwater.com (which you are in now) and the store at www.shop.friendsofwater.com. There are many links to move you around in and between the sites.
Here are some useful related links:
To go straight to the chloramine and fluoride water filters in the store: chloramine and fluoride filter - undercounter
chloramine and fluoride filter - countertop
To go straight to fluoride water filters in our store: fluoride water filters.
For more in-depth information about fluoride: fluoride risks.
For information about water filtration and filters: water filter info.
For information on whole house filters click whole house filters.
Click here for some story telling on the importance of filtered water.
Chloramine & Fluoride
In recent times some areas have begun to add ammonia to the municipal water supply. They are doing this for two reasons. The first is in recognition of some scientific study results that suggest chlorine is carcinogenic. The other is that adding ammonia changes the chemistry of chlorine so that it continues to serve as a disinfectant, but in its new form lasts much longer. The form it takes on is chloramines. By definition, it is harder to remove.
Research published in 2007 by Dr. Michael Plewa indicated that the disinfection byproducts (DBPs) created from the use of chloramine are much more toxic than the DBPs of chlorine. These new nitrogen-containing DBPs are currently not regulated by the EPA.
To see the most informative site we've found on the risks of chloramine, see: www.chloramine.org/
Fluoride is also very hard to remove. It is normally part of a metallic compound in our water, and the attraction of a metallic substance can remove it. Every metal has a charge, either positive or negative, and each can be either strong or weak.
The right combination of magnetics happens with activated alumina. Activated alumina is not aluminum. Aluminum is made by processing activated alumina, including adding fluoride. Aluminium oxide is the same chemical substance as sapphire and rubies, but without the impurities that give the gems their color. Activated alumina has a very high surface-area-to-weight ratio, with a lot of tunnel-like pores that run all through it. This means that there is a lot of surface area against which the water interacts, thereby breaking down the chemical makeup and removing fluoride.
view a research study report on the effectiveness of Activated Alumina.
Every one of these drinking water filters removes more than 600 contaminants including chlorine, organic-based contaminants like hormones, chemical-based drugs, arsenic, lead, heavy metals, chlorination by-products like trihalomethanes, and pesticides in much the same way that Mother Earth uses the minerals in the rocks and ground to clean water as it runs through to the aquifers. Those listed on this page also remove fluoride.
Undercounter & Countertop Models
