In the quest to find the best water filters, learn from my experience and just start your search with the multi-stage system based upon the use of activated carbon to remove impurities. It's the newest type of system, designed from years of experience in creating the best water.

That wouldn't automatically make it the best, but it does in this case, because recent scientific evidence has shown that the older methods of reverse osmosis and distillation actually remove minerals and metals that are good for the human body while leaving dangerous carcinogens that enter the ground water through agricultural runoff and inappropriately disposed of household cleansers.

You don't have to start your search here. You can go to reverse osmosis filters, purchase the most expensive bottled waters, or distill water. You can look up the best pitcher style filtration systems. But after all of that research you'll end up returning to carbon systems, because research is conclusive in showing that this method of filtration is the best for human health.

When finding the best water filters, you'll notice that some of the pitcher styles use carbon filters. While this type of system is certainly better than nothing, the problem is that, while relatively inexpensive to purchase, the filters are more expensive to replace and must be replaced often. They also use a more limited method of filtration. An activated carbon filter attaches right to the tap and without any filling, changing, or even pulling containers out of the fridge, you can enjoy superior water quality to that of the tap, bottle, or most filtration systems.

The filters only need to be changed every six months and are less expensive than their counterparts over a year's time. The other wonderful thing that I've discovered in my search to find the best water filters is that they exist for the shower as well, and that by using one in the shower you eliminate the problems created by chlorinated water. What are these problems? Remember the last time you went to the pool? How did your skin feel? Mine felt dry, my hair was more brittle and lifeless, and I had tightness in my lungs from inhaling the chloroform, the gaseous form of chlorine, that had been released into the air through evaporation. The same thing happens in the shower.

If you live in an apartment, don't worry, because you don't have to limit your search in finding the best water filters on that basis. Many of these filters can easily be attached to the tap in such a way that they are easily removable when you move and they make no permanent alterations to the property. For instance, to install the shower filter, you just remove the shower head by unscrewing it, screw on the filter, reattach the shower head, and you now have filtered water in the shower.

Experts tell us that 60 to 70 percent of the chlorine, which is a carcinogen, by the way, enters our bodies through skin absorption during daily showering. Having an activated carbon filter in the shower is just as important as at the tap in the kitchen. Plus the filter removes a lot of other carcinogens that would get absorbed, too. Scientists say that because of chemical usage, there are over 2,100 types of chemicals that cause cancer in our water supply. This is another thing to consider when you go to find the best water filters.

Reverse osmosis filters and distillers do not remove these chemicals. They remove helpful minerals instead. Why would anyone consider these when finding the best water filters? Because years ago, these two methods were the best we had, and scientists hadn't yet discovered that minerals in the water were a good thing. Now that we know this, activated carbon systems have been developed, and they create what we now know is the best kind of water. Carcinogen free and balanced in minerals.