From the carbonit bestseller NFP to the superfine comfort filter Superpure – we offer you the filter cartridges made of activated carbon and membrane filters that are suitable for you – always of high quality.

Germany manufactures some of the highest quality water filters in the world, and there are a number of carbon filter systems and types to choose from.

What you use depends to some extent on your budget.

Your options include:

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Countertop water filters
are a good option if you want an uninterrupted supply of filtered water. These systems pull water from your faucet and force it through a countertop filtration system. Countertop water filters are inexpensive and easy to maintain, requiring installation and compatible faucets to function.

– Under-sink water filters. These are located out of sight and can therefore be larger and more complex than countertop water filters. These systems have a long filter life (about 1 half year) and can filter a wide range of contaminants. However, there is no way to route your water past the filter, which means that all water usage activates the filter. Here you should pay special attention to activated carbon filters that have a high water flow rate (SPFP filter cartridges have hardly any pressure loss and filter very well in the process).

Regardless of which filter you use, your family will immediately notice an improvement in the clarity, smell and taste of your tap water. This means that you no longer need to store and drink bottled water in your home.

There is no question of “must”. but if you have the requirement that your drinking water has the best possible purity beyond the prescribed values, then you are making a well-considered decision with Carbonit®.

It is obvious that by using Carbonit® drinking water filters you not only achieve maximum purity and thus maximum safety, but also unpleasant colorations of the drinking water or discolorations of the sanitary objects (e.g. with water containing iron or copper) can be reduced or even completely avoided.

Even the new Drinking Water Ordinance can only ever take into account part of the possible pollutants in drinking water. Thus, there are also recognized pollutants in drinking water, but there is no limit value for them. These undesirable substances include, for example:

– Drug residues
– Polar pesticides (may have hormone-like effects).
– Asbestos fibers
– Microplastic

At the moment, no one can justifiably determine what quantity of these substances can lead to a health hazard and how the substances interact. However, it is clear that these substances are not a natural component of drinking water. Limit values are determined in animal experiments and extrapolated to adult humans – they are therefore theoretical rather than practically meaningful values. An excerpt from Brockhaus-Lexikon, 24-bdg. Issue:

The process of setting limit values is as controversial as many limit values themselves, since, for example, scientists have different assessments of the harmfulness of certain pollutants and limit values represent politically negotiated compromises between what is ecologically and health (toxicologically) appropriate, technically possible, financially viable, economically and politically acceptable […].

This probably makes it easier to understand why the limit value for lead in the 2001 drinking water ordinance (trinkwV) is only being reduced gradually from the former 40 µg to then 10 µg: The federal government itself lacks the funds to renovate its own buildings (source: Federal Environment Agency). The long transition period provides financial relief here.

Keeping your family healthy is always cheaper than paying for their health care when they get sick.

However, water filtration systems not only reduce exposure to health hazards, they literally cost less than the alternative.

A 1-liter bottle of water costs an average of 65 cents. If you multiply that by the average consumption in Germany, every German spends around 95 euros a year on water.

For a family of four, that’s almost 400 euros saved per year.

In contrast, an under-sink water filter costs between €100 and €200 one time and provides your family with clean, non-contaminated water.

Once operational, high-quality, German-made replacement filters for the system cost from around €40.

If you do the math, you will find that for the price of 1 liter of bottled water, you will get about 100 liters of water from your drinking water filtration system.

You also save the cost of driving to the supermarket to buy the water. Not to mention, your water consumption will create less plastic waste and help the environment.

So if you’re looking for the cheapest, best quality water right in your own home, activated carbon water filters are the answer.

For water filter systems with a filter fineness of less than 80 micrometers, the DVGW refuses to issue certifications on principle, stating that a) there are no corresponding test specifications b) Drinking water from the public water supply does not require any further treatment, as it is thoroughly and regularly tested by the water supply companies and monitored by the health department as part of state health supervision. Corresponding applications are regularly rejected on this basis. No attention is paid to the fact, proven by expert opinions and certificates, that activated carbon filters naturally filter out substances that are a) enter the water after leaving the waterworks – copper and lead from pipes and fittings – bacteria from leakages and stagnations – chlorine from disinfection measures b) are currently not recorded at all within the framework of the monitoring of the waterworks, such as pharmaceutical residues, hormones, PFTs, …. However, these are demonstrably and increasingly present in the water. (c) cause taste and odor contamination in water . Other than stating that water is supposed to be odorless and tasteless, these are not objectively verified in any way in the “context of the water utility’s in-depth investigations” and are admittedly difficult to determine objectively. In addition, the presumption of the DVGW (under private law) that only devices and products with its test mark may be used is legally incorrect. In this context, Sanquell or carbonit uses only materials that correspond to the generally recognized state of the art. All materials also meet food safety requirements (LMBG , KTW guidelines), which we can document on request. DVGW approval cannot be provided for the above reasons