Are you not satisfied with the quality of the water in your home and feel that it needs to be treated in some way? If so, you're likely wondering what your options are. Here is what you need to know about these five options for home water treatment.

Pitcher Filter

The easier way to filter your water is with a pitcher-style filter. You fill up the pitcher, the water flows through a granulated-activated carbon filter, and it removes the odd tastes, odors, and chlorine found in the water. While this is very affordable, it is not the most practical. You may find that it produces very little clean water and that the pitcher is always empty.

Faucet Filter

The next step up would be to take the same filtration method used in the pitcher filter and place it directly onto your faucet. The filter can be quite large on your kitchen faucet, but it gives you the option to switch between tap water and filtered water instantly. No more pitchers to fill up, but the water will not be chilled as if it was in the refrigerator. 

Under-Sink Filter

Don't like the large filter on the faucet? You can take that same concept and place the filtration system under the sink. This typically involves installing a second faucet on the sink, which can go where a soap pump usually goes to minimize the space that it takes up. All of the filtration happens underneath the kitchen sink, and lets you have filtered water on demand in a more elegant way

Reverse-Osmosis Filter

A reverse osmosis filter is a different way to provide treated water to your home, and it can be installed underneath sinks to filter all water that is used from a single faucet. The reserve osmosis filter stores the treated water in a large tank so that is ready to use on demand. Impurities are filtered out from the treatment system, and it does produce waste water that goes directly into the sewer drain.

Whole-Home Filtration

While these previous solutions work great for a single water source, you may be looking for something that covers every room in your home. The next step would be to install a whole home water filtration system that all water passes through as it enters your home. This ensures that all water used for drinking, bathing, and cleaning is filtered and ready to use. These filters require frequent changes to keep them clean or a system that allows a system to be backflushed so that impurities can be removed.