8 Criteria for Choosing A Drinking Water Filter
Drinking Water System : What is the most important criteria?
Listed below are 8 criteria when choosing a drinking water system.
1. Safety & Hygiene
- Is the water filter system certified by non-profit, third party, reputable organization such as NSF?
- Is it certified to the highest standard of the organization, example Class 1 instead of Class 2 or 3 ?
- Is the water filter system able to remove harmful chemicals like asbestos and is it certified under the Standard 53 : Health Effect of NSF/ANSI standards?
2. Purpose
- Do you plan to use for drinking only?
- Or for washing of food materials as well?
- Is the design enable you to perform both tasks efficiently without giving you trouble?
3. Flow rate
- Is the water filter system gives you the flow rate that convenient to you ?
Note : High flow rate does not mean water filtration quality is not good.
It depends on the water filtration technology.
4. Appearance to match kitchen design
- Do you plan to hang the water filter on the wall?
- Or you prefer Counter top design?
- Or you prefer your water filter system hiding under kitchen sink so that you can have more space for your food preparation and your kitchen looks tidy?
5. Space occupation (size)
- Do you have enough space in your kitchen if you to choose the counter top design?
- How much space does it occupied? Is the space allocated by you is enough for the counter top design?
- If you prefer to hang on the wall, is there any suitable space for you to do so without occupying much of your kitchen space?
Note: System that occupied larger space does not mean better filtration, it depends on the technology of the water filter system.
6. Cost to Maintenance 
- Cartridge, electricity, water wastage?
- Is there any hidden cost for calling technician?
7. Secret Failure
- Is the system fool-proof against failure?
- What if forget to change cartridge, does the system gives ‘alarm’ to us?
- What will happen if the cartridge is saturated prior to due date (because of over consumption of the drinking water system)?
8. Maintenance Time
- Is the design solid, what is the changes for hose leaking?
- Must you call a technicial for simple maintenance?
Choose your drinking water system wisely that meet your needs.
Guideline to Select Drinking Water System by NSF International
Why Health Claim Performance is Important?
How do we know whether a drinking water system would be able to supply safe drinking water, either for drinking or for cleaning food?
Yes. Through ‘health claim performance’ certified by third party, non-profit organisation such as National Sanitation Foundation (NSF).
Example of health claim performance data sheet, click here.
Benefits of NSF Certification for Consumers
Do you face these problems with your water purifier (drinking water system)?
- worry of drinking un-filtered water with sediment and rust
- worry of dangerous chemicals (e.g. lead, asbestos), if it did present in drinking water
- worry of un-reliable drinking water filter
- worry of water-borne outbreak if it did happen
- worry of expensive to purchase high quality drinking water system
- worry of high maintenance cost of quality drinking water filters
- worry of tedious job and time-consuming, to maintain a drinking water filter
- worry of lack of customer support and un-friendly personnel / technician
- want to save time from boiling plenty of water for the whole family every day
- want to save energy i.e. electricity or gas, from boiling plenty of water each day
- experience low water flow that use up your time waiting
- experience frequent of leaking, making the kitchen messy and mouldy
- have limited kitchen space to put drinking water systems
If your answer is yes for any of the above, you may want to consider Everpure drinking water system.