Water Filters
Do Any Water Filters Remove Fluoride?
Do Any Water Filters Remove Fluoride? Yes! Fluoride can be filtered from your water with the right filters. Be aware, however, that most filters don’t remove fluoride. You need to be sure to get...
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Water Filters to Remove Chloramine
Are there water filters to remove chloramine? Yes, there are water filters to remove chloramine for your kitchen or your whole house. You can greatly reduce chloramine from your shower. But most filters are...
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Benefits to Filtering Your Water
Here’s some helpful information from, “Ask Well.” Health questions answered by Times journalists and experts. Should you filter your water? The short answer is yes. While the Environmental Protection Agency regulates municipal tap water and...
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Researchers remove salt from polluted water
The ocean makes up 75% of earth’s water, but is undrinkable due to its high salt content. Researchers have discovered a simple and cost-effective method for removing pollutants and salt from water, making it drinkable. Whereas...
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Why You Need A Water Filter
In recent years there have been a growing number of more widely-distributed news stories pointing out the large number of new contaminants in our drinking water, including chemicals and hormones. While no water filter company...
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KIDS DRINKING MORE WATER AT SCHOOL
Studies recently found that kids in some New York City public schools drank water almost three times more often after water dispensers were installed near their lunch lines. The author of the study said...
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WHAT MAKES OUR WATER FILTERS UNIQUE?
There are 2 secrets to successful water filtration: 1) Quality and 2) Quantity of the Filtration Media. Many water filtration products use less-expensive filtration media, and therefore, filter very fewer contaminants. Some only...
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WHOLE HOUSE FILTERS
More householders are realizing how affordable our whole house filters have become in recent times. Improvements in the technology have allowed whole house filter pricing to drop considerably. For example, you may or may...
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HOW CAN WE HELP?
How We Can Help You At Friends of Water we provide solutions for a wide variety of customers and their various needs. Below is a list of some specific examples of the solutions we...
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How To Choose The Right Water Filter For Your Kitchen
Water filters are incredibly important to our health. Drinking water is so natural in a lot of cases that most people don’t think of what is in the water that is slipping its way...
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WATER REFLECTIONS
Learning so much about water has caused me to reflect upon my own experiences with water throughout life. As a child I don’t remember drinking water regularly, but I assume my parents gave...
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A NEW FRIEND TO FRIENDS OF WATER
Hello friends, my name is Melody and I am happy to say that I’ve recently started training to help with Friends of Water. This opportunity has been both enjoyable and educational. Although I assumed...
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FILTERING WATER AT HOME
When we started Friends of Water in January 2006, we started providing information and products to Save, Celebrate & Filter Water. We thought that the greatest demand would come for information and products to...
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WEB MISINFORMATION
It is our view that you can do research on the web to help get informed. But in the end you do have to trust your own knowledge and intuition. And of course your own experience....
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WE DO NEED SOME IRON
A small article in the January/February Atlantic magazine explains how a fellow has introduced small pieces of iron for rural Cambodian people to put in their cooking pots as a way to combat iron...
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SAN FRANCISCO WATER
We just returned from a long weekend in San Francisco. Living out in the Sierra Foothills as we do, we enjoyed many city activities not available here. We spent a lot of time in...
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LEAD IN DENVER WATER
More than one million people living in the Denver metro area have been warned about possible lead contamination in their tap water. The problem is traced to older lead-based piping that exists in those...
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FRACKING & WATER CONTAMINATION
According to a study released this month, hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and other types of gas and oil extraction can leave increased levels of contamination in streambeds downstream. Included in these are the creation of...
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HANDHELD UV WATER PURIFIERS
An interesting newer line of products we’ve added to the friendsofwater.com store is the series of Handheld UV Water Purifiers from SteriPen. There are very small portable Water Purifiers for use in traveling, outdoors...
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WATER QUALITY ASSOCIATION
We’re just back from attending the Water Quality Association’s Annual Trade Show. We found some new products that we’ll add to our online store soon. However, we remain convinced that the lines of filters...