In New York City and surrounding cities like Brooklyn, the infrastructure is crumbling. As you walk down the sidewalks, and drive down the streets, you can see that the city management is not doing a very good job of taking care of things on the outside. Bridges and tunnels are crumbling, which could one day lead to a devastating situation. But a more immediate crisis is the crumbling pipes beneath the cities. Even if the water is treated at the municipal water treatment facilities, passage through crumbling pipes exposes the water to a high level of heavy metals, which is dangerous to drink and very bad for water ionizers or any other water appliance.
I urge anyone who owns a water ionizer and uses it in the New York City area to get a heavy metal pre-filter installed as soon as possible. You can get a heavy metal pre-filter from Water for Life USA for $54.99 Plus $20 for the housing to put it in. There are other stores online that also sell heavy metal pre filters and housings. But if you shop elsewhere, you have to make sure that you get at least a KDF 55 filter and a standard housing with 1/4 inch connectors.
The New York City area is not the only part of a country that is suffering from crumbling infrastructure. If you live in the Chicago area, Philadelphia area, Boston area, or even the Washington DC area, you should also consider getting a heavy metal pre-filter. Just about any major city on the East Coast suffers from the same lack of maintenance issues that New York City suffers from. Your filter life may still be good in some cities on the East Coast, but our experience is that, with each year that passes, the problem is getting worse with heavy metals, so it is a good idea to get ahead of the situation by getting a heavy metal pre-filter now.
For any other US city, it is a good idea to Google your city’s annual water report and look for the field that says heavy metals. If there are heavy metals in your drinking water, it is a good idea to get a heavy metal pre-filter, even though the EOS water filters remove those heavy metals. Getting a heavy metal pre-filter will improve the filter lifespan of your EOS water ionizer filters and prevent any heavy metals from eventually overwhelming those filters and damaging the components inside your water ionizer.
To your health!
