How Good Are Ceramic Water Filters? And How Do They Work?

Why would anyone consider filtering water? Isn’t our tap water good enough to drink? Sadly no, and so many people are turning to water purification using such water filtration systems as ceramic water filters and other water filtration methods.

Believe it or not the Ralph Nader Institute estimates that there are up to 2100 toxic chemicals in our drinking water. Things like lead, heavy metals, PCBs, herbicides, pesticides and much more.

So if you’re thinking of using a ceramic drinking water filter how would it work? It works by ensuring that water is forced through extremely tiny holes that are in the filter material. That way any molecules larger than the size of a water molecule are removed. These extremely tiny holes are created by a filtering substance known as Diatomaceous Earth. This is made up of millions of tiny fozzilesed shells that were deposited millions of years ago. These are made into the filter material used in ceramic water filters.

So this filter made up of Diatomaceous Earth has such small holes the water passes through and in the process contaminants are removed.

But that isn’t all. There are various bacteria in water, and the ceramic filter doesn’t remove all of these, so colloidal silver is added to the filter so that these can be filtered out too.

Ceramic water filters have been around for over 100 years.

Are ceramic water filters the best water purification method? Just because they’re old doesn’t mean they’re the best. And if you’re worried about drinking tap water that is contaminated with hundreds of different you want the best.

The good news is that modern water filtration systems are extremely effective, and produce extremely clean water, cleaner than water that you would find in any naturally occurring water source in the world, and much cleaner than bottled water, (which isn’t very clean at all).

Well there are some problems with ceramic drinking water filters. That’s not to say they are useless, just that they aren’t the best.

The big issue is that you won’t filter out chlorine with a ceramic filter. And although we need chlorine in our water you really don’t need to be drinking chlorine, so you need to filter it out. The best water filters will remove 99.9% of chlorine and that’s what you want. A ceramic filter won’t filter chlorine.

The filter material can be prone to forming tiny hairline cracks. You can’t see these, but these compromise the water quality. You won’t know if this happens but you are then drinking contaminated water again.

And although there is colloidal silver in there for the bacteria the FTC isn’t convinced that this is a sufficiently effective way of filtering bacteria.

So ceramic filters can be good, but modern water filtering technology can be better than a ceramic filter. And you need to clean them regularly or else they block up and don’t work.

And there are some excellent water filtering options out there now, which will remove just about everything you need removed from your water.

But if you’ve got a ceramic filter don’t throw it away by any means, it’s way better than drinking tap water, which you shouldn’t drink under any circumstances.