Activated Carbon Filters: These water filters use activated carbon, which has a large surface area with tiny pores to trap and absorb contaminants. Activated carbon filters are effective in removing ...

All sorts of nasties—lead, mercury, radium, nitrates, norovirus, agricultural runoff, PFAS, and more—can lurk in your water. No surprise, then, that about 40% of U.S. homes filter theirs. But the ...

A home water filtration system is a device or set of devices that helps remove harmful chemicals and germs from the water in your home. Depending on the type of filter, it can improve the safety, ...

Lead, bacteria and PFAS are among the contaminants cropping up in drinking water. Credit...Thea Traff for The New York Times Supported by By Dana G. Smith Over the past few years, water safety crises ...

Did you wash your face this morning using tap water? Do you realize what you’re doing to your skin when you expose it to the chemicals and hard minerals in the water? The Q-urify Water Filter offers ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The performance of a low cost and simple ceramic filter to a membrane bioreactor (MBR) process was evaluated for greywater treatment. The ...

Nearly half of the tap water in the United States is contaminated by PFAS chemicals, or per-and poly-fluoroalkyl substances, a recent report alarmed. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ...

It's a sad fact that many of the people who most need water filters are those who are least able to afford them. A newly demonstrated MIT technology could help, in that it uses locally sourced wood to ...

You've probably used a filter to mask imperfections in a photo—more than 90 percent of young women do so regularly, according to a 2021 study—but should you actually be using filtered water to improve ...

You might say PFAS just won’t go away. They’ve been linked to health concerns, including cancer, thyroid disease, liver damage, fertility problems, and immune system disorders, as well as increased ...