Question from Hello Life
My doctor is promoting a whole house water filter system from ‘Filtercon Technologies’ (www.filtercon.com) and I’m wondering if anyone knows if their technology works?
They do not use reverse osmosis or add any chemicals, salt or potassium to the water.
Instead they are using hydromagnetic technology that “conditions the water non-chemically by restructuring and realigning the polarity of the mineral molecules without removing the beneficial minerals from the water”
There is also a layer of quartz and one of copper-zinc granules to further purify the water.
They claim that you can drink the water.
I’m wondering if anyone has looked into this system and if it really gets clean enough to drink? Does it remove chloramines and flouride?
Debra’s Answer
Here’s the page that explains what’s in the filter: www.filtercon.com/howitworks.htm.
First there is granular activated carbon. This is fine. It will remove chlorine but not chloramines unless it is a specific type of activated carbon modified specifically for that purpose.
Then the hydromagnetic module. This softens the water by rearranging the molecules instead of adding salt. This technology works. I have a similar unit in my own water system that works great to soften my very hard water. I’ve been using it for about eight years with no maintenance. Wonderful technology!
Then quartz. I’ve never seen this in a water filter before and don’t know what it does (note that filtercon doesn’t say what it does either).
Then KDF 55 (that’s the copper-zinc granules). These are used either alone or with carbon to remove chlorine only. They do not remove chloramine. Using KDF 55 makes the carbon last longer.
This filter would do a fine job of removing chlorine, if you have chlorine in your water. It will also do a great job at softening your water, if you have hard water.
