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Treatment Options: What types of filter systems are available?Updated 3 months ago

Whole house systems use a wide variety of water purification technologies to treat water contamination. Activated media beds are used to remove pollutants from the water through the process of adsorption, ion-exchange, catalytic conversion and oxidation. There are many types of media and their versatility allows them to treat everything from natural and man-made chemicals to heavy metals and water hardness. For microbial concerns, UV lamps are used to sterilize water by attacking the DNA of microbial contaminants with ultraviolet light which effectively destroys bacteria, viruses and cysts. Screen, sieve and membrane filtration can also be used to remove pollutants within a wide range of micron ratings.

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