BEST WATER PURIFIER ( CHOOSE THE BEST WATER PURIFIER USING THESE TRICKS)

HOW TO CHOOSE THE BEST WATER PURIFIER

STEP:1: FIRST KNOW WHAT IS YOUR WATER TYPE?

Does your water comes from borewell?
Does your water smells bad?
Does your comes from the municipality?
Does your water comes from a river or lake?

First thing is checking the water source. After checking the water source it is time to check what elements your water contains (example:- bacteria, minerals like arsenic, chlorine etc)

STEP:2: HEAVY OR SOFT WATER?

It is important to check if your water is HEAVY WATER OR SOFT WATER?

✒️Because water purifiers are meant to either purify heavy water or soft water.

HOW TO KNOW IF YOUR WATER IS HEAVY OR SOFT???

Open your tap water & fill water in a bucket. Keep that bucket in a static state for at least 20 minute. If your tap water is heavy then you will find whitish substances or metallic substances at the bottom of the bucket. If your water is soft water then you will find nothing at the bottom of the bucket.

Heavy water is not good for your health.
heavy water is a bad cleaner.
Your laundry becomes worse after washing with heavy water.

WHAT ARE THE SOURCES OF HEAVY WATER/ WHERE YOU CAN FIND HEAVY WATER?

Ans:- Mostly tube, borewell water are heavy water due to minerals, salts, ions, metals present in them.

STEP:3: NEVER FORGET ABOUT TDS?

Never forget about TDS (TOTAL DISSOLVED SOLIDS) in the water.

Dissolved ORGANIC OR INORGANIC solids like MINERALS, SALTS, IONS, METALS present in the water. More TDS in the water is not good for your health.

TDS is measured in PPM (parts per millions) or mg/L (milligram per unit volume)

TDS level of the water should be less than 500 ppm

50ppm is the standard TDS level.Actually, TDS = 0 in the water is good for you.

HOW TO CHECK THE TDS LEVEL OF WATER?

A MACHINE USED TO MEASURE TDS LEVEL IN THE WATER

TYPES OF WATER PURIFIERS WITH DETAILS EXPLANATION

REVERSE OSMOSIS (RO)
UV PURIFICATION
UF PURIFICATION
CARBON FILTRATION
CANDLE FILTER PURIFICATION
GRAVITY FILTRATION PURIFICATION
SEDIMENT FILTER
ALKALINE WATER IONIZER
INFRARED FILTER
RO+UV✔️
RO+UV/UF✔️
RO+UV+UF✔️✔️
MEMBRANE

1. REVERSE OSMOSIS WATER PURIFIER

How reverse osmosis (RO) water purifier works?

Water containing contaminants pressurized to pass through a semi-permeable membrane during RO (reverse osmosis) process infected water is flushed out & clean & tasty water comes from the purifier.

What RO can remove from water & What RO cannot remove from water?

Water contains many inorganic minerals that cannot be absorbed by our body properly. RO removes inorganic minerals from water.

RO effectively removes PROTOZOA (example- cryptosporidium, Giardia), BACTERIA (example- E.coli, shigella, salmonella,campylobacter), VIRUS (example- enteric, Hepatitis A, Norovirus,Rotavirus), COMMON CHEMICAL CONTAMINANTS (example- metal ions, aqueous ions) including sodium, chloride, copper, chromium,lead,zinc etc

⧭ RO reduces arsenic, fluoride, radium,sulfate,calcium, magnesium, potassium,nitrate,pesticides & phosphorous from water.

RO is a strict purifier. Sometimes your body needs essential elements, minerals which filtered out by RO PURIFIERS. This is the drawback of RO purifier.

If you are using an RO PURIFIER then use a TDS CONTROLLER along with it.

WHEN TO USE RO WATER PURIFIER?

RO is good for hard water where TDS level of water is high.
You can use it for borewell & tubewell water as these type of water has a high TDS level.
Your water will be no tastier after using RO PURIFIER. Because it filters out all organic & inorganic elements from the water.
Maintenance expense will be more if you buy RO PURIFIER.
If your water smells bad then you can use RO PURIFIER.

2. UV PURIFICATION

This is also known as e-BOILING. In this process ultraviolet rays used by the filter to kill germs, microbes, bacterias, virus, cysts etc.
This type of purification method destroys almost every type of harmful organisms present inside the water.
Tiny mercury lamps inside water purifier produce less harmful & tiny UV rays which kill all types of bacteria, virus, microbes etc by destroying their DNA.
Due to the penetration of UV rays virus, bacteria lose their capacity to reproduce.

WHEN TO USE UV WATER PURIFIER?

You should use UV when there is low TDS level in the water.
As UV PURIFIER only kills or tranquilizes bacteria, virus, cyst etc they can later alive inside your body under a suitable condition when drink water.
That is why you need to use a UV purifier when there are less harmful microorganisms in the water.
It cannot filter anything except killing little harmful organisms. (Never use UV purifier alone if your water is muddy. UV cannot filter IMPURITIES or DEAD HARMFUL bacterias, virus, cysts etc))
It will never alter the taste of water. If you want tasty water then you can use UV PURIFIER.
It will reduce the bad smell of water by killing bad smell causing bacteria in the water. If you want good smelling water then you can use UV PROTECTION BASED PURIFIER.

3. UF PURIFICATION

ULTRAFILTRATION (UF) purification is similar to RO (REVERSE OSMOSIS)
But it has bigger pores. Means it can filter all types of impurities, bacteria, cysts, microbes EXCEPT VIRUS.
It cannot remove dissolved salts from the water
UV PURIFICATION & RO PURIFICATION both are better than UF PURIFICATION in terms of functionality.

WHEN TO USE UF PURIFICATION

You should use UF PURIFICATION when TDS (total dissolved solids) level in the water is high
You should use it when there are less harmful microorganisms in the water.
You should use it when there are no dissolved salts in the water.

4. CARBON FILTRATION

CARBON FILTRATION

Carbon filtration requires no electricity
It efficiently removes chlorine, pesticides & impurities from the water.

WHEN TO USE CARBON FILTER

Most of the modern aqua purifiers use carbon filters along with RO, UV or UF due to the inability to remove microbes from the water.
It cannot change the taste or odor of the water effectively.

5. CANDLE FILTRATION PURIFICATION

CANDLE FILTER WATER PURIFIER

CANDLE FILTERS are simple structures
Requires no electricity
It filters impurities but cannot filter microbes
You can use this with RO, UV or UF.
These are cost efficient (good for poor)

6. GRAVITY FILTER PURIFICATION

GRAVITY WATER PURIFIER

These are the simplest type of water purifiers
No electricity & maintenance required
Only good for you if your water is muddy.
It cannot filter out microbes, organic or inorganic elements from the water.

7. SEDIMENT FILTER

TYPICAL SEDIMENT & CARBON FILTER

SEDIMENT FILTERS are just like carbon filter. (but they only filter sediments)
They cannot filter microbes, organic or inorganic elements from the water.
They come attached with RO, UV or UF water purifier.

8. ALKALINE WATER IONIZER

Alkaline water is not good for your health or laundry
That is why you need an alkaline water filter.
Most of the modern water purifiers come with an alkaline water purifier.
If your local water is alkaline then never forget to buy a water purifier which has an option to filter alkaline water.

9. INFRARED FILTER

The infrared purifier is like UV purifier but it is suitable in the area where TDS (total dissolved solids) level of water is high
It softens water & good for you if your water is alkaline.

10. RO + UV

Reverse osmosis (RO) is good for hard water but it cannot kill all harmful micro-organisms present inside the water.
UV cannot be filtered out dead microbes, impurities etc. it only kills harmful microorganisms.
in this case, RO will help you. (That is why you should use RO+UV)
In this case, you need a water purifier which has RO+ UV combined.
Nowadays manufacturers manufacturing water purifiers which have both (UV+RO) facility.

11. RO+UV/UF

RO & UF are similar (but RO is better)
Between UV & UF UV is better.
If you want to buy RO+UV/UF then choose RO+UV instead of RO+UF

12. RO+UV+UF

RO+UV alone do a better job.
Adding UF filter to RO+UV is more expensive & needs more maintenance.
Instead of buying RO+UV+UF buy RO+UV+TDS+ (carbon filter. infrared, alkaline stabilizer)

13. MEMBRANE

Membrane water purification is a natural purification done by nature to purify water.
It is clean but not free from harmful microorganisms & elements.

WHICH IS THE BEST WATER PURIFIER?

Choose a water purifier that contains multiple filters like RO,UF,UV,CARBON FILTER, ALKALINE FILTER etc. If possible choose a water purifier which contains OZONE.

KEEP THIS IN MIND BEFORE BUYING THE BEST WATER PURIFIER?

1. ASK THE PREVIOUS CUSTOMER

If you go to an AQUA PURIFIER SHOP & ask the seller about a particular aqua purifier then he will only say the good things (mostly fake) about that particular aqua purifier.
That is why you should take advice from previous customers.
you can find previous customers in the review section of the product. (In Amazon, Flipkart etc..)
If they provided any contact number then contact them or use their real name to find them in various social media.

2. ALWAYS BUY FROM OFFLINE/ RETAIL SHOP

I have seen most of the customers complaining about the defect products.
It is common if you buy electric products online. Never buy any electric product from an online store (except phones).
If your water purifier becomes a defect or needed to repair then local agents of that particular water purifier will never show any interest to repair it.

Always buy water purifier from a retail shop operator whom you know very well.

3. SOME ARE DESIGNED TO SELF DESTRUCT

Yes, many water purifier manufacturing companies do this for more money. They manufacture in such a way that it will self-destruct within a few months of warranty expiration date.

Instead of buying newly launched water purifiers wait few months check reviews of already bought customers. If most of the customers complaining about malfunction then you should never think about that product.

4. IF YOU CHANGING YOUR PLACE REGULARLY?

If you changing your place regularly then you should buy a water purifier which has a multi-filtration system (RO+UV+CARBON FILTER+ALKALINE FILTER) with added TDS level controller.

5. FILL RATE (PURIFICATION RATE PER HOUR)

If you are choosing a water purifier for office or for more members then you should choose a water purifier which has more purifying capacity rate in an hour ( more than 10 liters per hour)

6. CHILLED WATER

Chilled water will give you an amazing experience. If you are buying RO+UV without TDS level controller then you should chill WATER option.

7. LOW MAINTENANCE COST

Choose a water purifier which rarely needed to be maintained.
Generally, multi-filter system water purifier requires more maintenance.

You should take advice from old customers about maintenance of water purifier.

If you ask customer care or the servicemen then they will fake you. So avoid asking them about maintenance.

8. REPAIRING

If water purifier becomes defect then instead of asking serviceman about repair cost ask the company about the repair or replacement cost.

Most of the servicemen will cheat you so beware of these frauds/

If your purifier needed to be repaired or some parts needed to be replace then first ask company about the serviceman cost or replacement cost then approach a serviceman.

9. MUNICIPALITY WATER (what water purifier is good for municipality water)

If your water source is municipality then you should use UV or UF WATER PURIFIER.

If the water source is multiple (borewell+ municipality) then you should use multi filtered purifiers (RO+UV+CARBON PURIFIER+ ALKALINE IONIZER+TDS/MTDS)

10. SMELLING WATER (WHAT IS BEST WATER PURIFIER FOR BAD SMELLING WATER?)

Water smells bad due to the bacteria present in it. You should use a water filter which filters out microorganisms.

Use a water purifier which has RO+UV to stop the bad smell of water.

11. FOR TASTY WATER {WHICH WATER FILTER IS BEST FOR TASTY WATER (original water taste)}

RO decreases the taste of the water. Except for RO, all type of filters give the original taste

RO is a strict filter that is why it filters all elements that are necessary for good taste.

If you still want to use RO then use TDS level controller along with RO water purifier for slightly altered taste.

12. CERTIFICATION (WHICH CERTIFICATE IS GOOD FOR AN AQUA PURIFIER ?)

NSF INTERNATIONAL, CE CERTIFICATION,WATER QUALITY ASSOCIATION (WQA),ROHS COMPLIANT,TUV SUD AMERICA INC are the best certificates for a water purifier.
Among these certificates, NSF certificate is the best.
If your water purifier has an NSF/ANSI 42 certificate then it is good for aesthetics like chlorine & odor removal.
If your water purifier has an NSF/ANSI 53 certificate then it is good for infected/contaminated water.

I hope this article helped you to choose the best water purifier.