Health - not wealth - is your primary asset.  Clean water is an important step in your commitment to better health     The American Longevity Assocation has complied 10 tips to make life at 100 not only possible but also full active. One tip was: "Drink hard water (rather than soft) and use a charcoal filter to eliminate chlorine from all water". This removes cancer producing chemicals and still provides essentail minerals. (Source: Los Angeles Times, May 11,1983)     Whole House systems and Scale Blaster combos available     Just as a firewall keeps undesirable elements out of your computer, these filters keep undesirable elements out of your drinking water. Some municipal water supplies have as much chlorine in them as a swimming pool. While chlorine is critical in keeping our water supply bacteria-free there is no good reason to be drinking it! There are many controversial side-effects such as hypertension and even some cancers that make drinking chlorinated water highly undesirable and completely unnecessary. Activated carbon is the preferred treatment method recommended by the EPA to remove a host of potentially hazardous. and possibly carcinogenic chemicals from your drinking water.  Our affordable filters remove chlorine and other petroleum-based chemicals at your tap and give you bottle-quality water for just pennies a gallon. Our filter design provides up to 50 times the filtration capacity and efficacy of simple cartridge filters.