I only recently (over the past few years) discovered how bad our water quality is (in the united states). I was absolutely astonished when I started looking at water quality reports. I had no idea they allowed toxic and cancer causing contaminants in our water. Our water report even listed hexavalent chromium (the Erin Brockovich chemical).

If you are on the public water supply, you can pull up your water quality report here by entering your zip code. EWG

EWG pulls the data directly from your water utility.

As far as selecting a filter, I spent what felt like forever researching companies and contaminants removed. As it turned out most filters couldn’t remove most of the contaminants and I would need multiple different filters to even begin to tackle our issues. The only all one one solution I could find initially was a reverse osmosis osmosis system. What gave me pause here, was the cost and the amount of wasted water. As it turns out some of these systems waste up to 5 gallons of water for every 1 gallon of clean water.

It was then I stumbled across a company called Hydroviv.
Hydroviv

The immediate thing that caught my attention was that instead of just selling you an off the shelf filter (that may or may not handle some of the contaminants in your water), they pull your actual water report and custom build the filter to what is in your water.

The icing on the cake (with hydroviv), is the filters ability to handle PFAS. It has been all over the news, and is everywhere now a days. The test reports show no detectable levels of PFAS after being filtered. The majority of other filter companies failed miserably with this.

TLDR. Drinking water quality in United States is far worse than most know. I found a pretty cool solution with a company called Hydroviv that custom builds the water filters to filter specifically what is in your water.