Point-of-Use Water Systems: Expert Insights for Healthier Hydration

What Point Of Entry Options Are Available When Purchasing A Water Purification System? 

Clean water shouldn't be complicated, but the overwhelming number of filtration options makes choosing the right system challenging. Dan Toth cuts through the confusion by revealing a counterintuitive truth: those inexpensive point-of-use filters for your sink or shower aren't the budget-friendly solution they appear to be. Over time, they often cost more while delivering less effective filtration than whole-house systems.

The filtration landscape has become increasingly cluttered with questionable products. With the rise of online marketplaces, consumers face a flood of options varying dramatically in quality and effectiveness. Many people unknowingly select products that fail to meet American quality standards for contaminant removal, believing they're protected when they may not be. "The mindset is 'I need to have something, let me get the cheapest thing I can get,'" Dan explains. "In reality, it's going to cost you more and it may not be doing the job that you think it will."

When comparing filtration technologies, Dan takes a science-based approach that might surprise those following water treatment trends. While alkaline, hydrogen, and structured water systems generate buzz, reverse osmosis consistently outperforms them in removing contaminants—the primary goal of filtration. Most intriguingly, many trendy systems actually require certain dissolved solids to function—the very elements comprehensive filtration aims to eliminate. This creates a paradox where "improved" water may contain more substances that reduce its bioavailability for hydration. As Dan puts it, "The higher the TDS of water, the less bioavailable it is for hydration, and that's the whole purpose of drinking water." 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome to the Mountain View Pure Podcast,
where your journey toexceptional water quality begins
.
Here's your host, dan Toth,owner of Mountain View Pure
Water.
They proudly serve homeownersin the Tri-Cities and beyond,
offering advanced water and airpurification solutions that
support a healthier lifestyle.
The mission is clear helpingyou get great water.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Targeted, efficient and right where you need it.
Point of view systems can makea big difference.
Here's how to pick the rightone for your space and your
lifestyle.
Here's how to pick the rightone for your space and your
lifestyle.
Welcome back everyone.
Skip Monty, co-host producer,back in the studio with Dan Toth
, owner of Mountain View PureWater.
Dan, how's it going?
Doing well, skip?

(00:55):
How are you today?
Doing just fine, thrilled to beback.
Your practical guidance alwaysmakes water wellness feel within
reach.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Speaking of which?

Speaker 2 (01:05):
how do I choose a point of use water system and
what options are there?

Speaker 3 (01:12):
All right.
So point of use is filtrationright where you're using the
water.
You think about it at your sink.
You might have one of thesefilters that fits right on the
faucet.
You might have one of thesefilters that fits right on the
faucet.
You might have a filter that'sdown below the sink where the
water filters through before itcomes out the faucet.
A point of use filter also isusually on most refrigerators

(01:48):
there's a carbon filter thatthey're showering in, and then
there's also things like we haveBrita and Berkey and Pure, and
there's a whole bunch of otherbrand names that people will
know that they can use as apitcher or a filter mechanism to
sit beside the sink, and sothere's a lot of ways that you

(02:12):
can filter your water for use,no matter what the use is if
it's showering, if it's drinking, cooking, things like that and
so picking the right filter forthat is.
I think we often look at thosefilters, as we do with bottled
water.
I think there's a little bit ofawareness that a filter is

(02:33):
needed, but discernment as towhat kind of filter is needed is
lacking, and so one of thethings that we try to do is we
help to educate every one of ourcustomers everyone who we go
out to meet with we try toeducate them as to what a filter
is actually doing for them,what the cost is associated with
using that particular filterand then what benefits there

(02:56):
would be to different styles offiltration.
So in the last episode wetalked about point of entry
filtration.
Last episode we talked aboutpoint of entry filtration and by
and large I would say mostpoint-of-use filters are not
better than a point-of-entryfilter would give you through
every point of use throughoutthe house if you had it

(03:17):
installed.
Typically, I feel like peoplespend more money on the less
expensive point of use filtersthan they would if they had a
whole house.
Filtration for carbon or carbonfiltration for chemicals and
taste and odor so that's one ofthe things that I want to just
get out there right away.
Odor so that's one of thethings that I want to just get

(03:40):
out there right away.
People think that the lessexpensive point of use filters
for a shower head or at the sinkare less expensive and I would
argue that over time they'remore expensive and you're not
getting as much filtration asyou would with a point of entry
filter for the whole house water.
Second, thing.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yeah, well, I was gonna say so.
Yeah, I guess with point ofpoint of use you've got a
different filter.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
If you have to do a lot more replacement, I would
think the filters right yes,yeah, and one of the things that
you know I'm I will not beaccused of being a tree hugger
or something like that but atsame time, why would you waste
money?
Why would you throw things awaywhen you could use a process
that is more effective, has lesswaste and costs less over time?

(04:26):
And that's where I think thatthe point of entry filter is so
much better at removingcontaminants, foul taste and
odor for your home than a carbonblock or filter system that you
have to replace every couple ofmonths.
There's more expense to thereplacement and it filters less

(04:48):
of the places that you'll usethe water and it also doesn't
necessarily filter as muchcontaminant out.
The other thing that you'll runinto when I think this is
possibly an equally bad problemis as a consumer, how do you
know which filter to get?
How do you know which one is anAmerican standard quality

(05:11):
filter and which one would befrom China or another country
that doesn't have the samestandards for product quality or
removal of contaminants thatthe American standards have?
So that's a big problem.
Because of Amazon and otheronline retailers, we are flooded

(05:33):
with cheap options and often wedefault to the cheap option
because that's the mindset.
The mindset is oh, I need tohave something, let me get the
cheapest thing I can get.
In reality, it's going to costyou more and it may not be doing
the job that you are actuallytrying to have it do for you.
You may not be removing thecontaminants that you think it
will be.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Agreed Well.
Do point of view systems stillallow for options like alkaline
balancing or UV or reverseosmosis, like a whole house
system would?

Speaker 3 (06:06):
Okay, so that's a loaded question.
It may not seem that way tomost people, but so we do have
several different types offiltration for point of use that
people have employed.
Let's see the concept of highpH or alkalinity.
That's one.
There's another concept ofstructured water is another,

(06:30):
Hydrogen water is another.
And then you have what mypersonal pick is is reverse
osmosis.
And people will say, well, hey,why do you pick that one over
the others?
I pick that one simply becausemy goal is removing contaminants
, and none of the other systemsremove as much contaminant from
the water.

(06:51):
None of them give you as pureof a water as the reverse
osmosis does.
You can even upgrade reverseosmosis, so if you were to go to
distilled or deionized water,there's even more removal of
contaminants than reverseosmosis has, but you've got a
lot more upkeep and a lot morecosts involved.

(07:12):
So when you figure in cost andmaintenance, reverse osmosis is
just head and shoulders aboveother options for what it
removes and what it costs tokeep it working properly.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
Hydrogen water.
You mentioned hydrogen water.
What is that?

Speaker 3 (07:30):
Well, this is a new thing.
You can call it a fad justbecause it's new and popular.
And what it does is it uses acertain electrolysis process to
introduce more oxygen, freehydrogen, into the water than it
has on its own.
So water is H2O and so you havehydrogen and oxygen.
And so you think to yourself,well, how can you get more

(07:52):
hydrogen than that?
And the reality is it's justsplitting bonds and allowing for
more hydrogen to be free toutilize it in the body.
Um, not really strong on thescience of it, but some people
find it to be effective toincrease their energy levels and

(08:13):
some other things.
And um, along with all of thesedifferent concepts, so we'll
use alkaline water, hydrogenwater, structured water.
There's a lot of hype in eachone of these and the consumer
may not notice the benefitscompared to what the hype is

(08:36):
behind them, and so I would urgesomeone to just have a higher
quality water, which is whatreverse alkaline water will give
you.
You, instead of going for a fadand so some of those things
people get, people would maybegetting really angry with me
right now for calling them fadsand hyped, but the reality is,
science isn't necessarily on theside of these fad concepts and

(09:02):
what we do know is is that ifyou remove the contaminants that
a reverse osmosis system willremove, these other products
don't work as well.
They actually require a certainamount of stuff in the water to
make their product change thewater.
That, to me, that's a bigproblem, because I'm trying to
help people understand that themore stuff that's in the water,

(09:24):
we refer to it as dissolvedsolids, total dissolved solids
or TDS.
The higher the TDS of the water, the less bioavailable it is
for us to be hydrated, andthat's the whole purpose of
drinking water is.
We want to be hydrated and soif there's more stuff in the
water, you may have morecontaminants.
But when we remove overall thepercentage of stuff that's in

(09:46):
the water, we have a purequality water, more h2o and less
other stuff.
That means that there's lesscontaminants, we get better
hydration and and sometimes thatmeans that these other products
don't work as well to producethe water quality that someone
thinks that they want.

(10:06):
And I say that only becausethey think that they want it,
because it is popular and if itworks for you, that's great.
But psychologically there'sbeen lots of sugar pills out
there and things that have beengiven in place of something that
actually causes a differencethat people think causes a

(10:27):
difference because they've beentold it causes a difference.
So I'm looking at the scienceof it, saying, hey, I know that
water that has less contaminantin it is healthier for me and
that's what I'm trying to helpmy customers get.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
That's what I'm trying to help my customers get.
So you're saying that theseTHAAD structured water, hydrogen
water that they only workeffectively if the water is
really contaminated?

Speaker 3 (10:55):
Not really contaminated.
But once you reverse osmosisfilter it, you may not have
enough stuff left in the waterfor their electrolysis process
to work properly.
And I'm not saying it's acrossthe board.
There are some higher qualityproducts out there that will
still produce the end productthat the customer is wanting,

(11:16):
with a better quality water thatthey're starting with.
But the majority of them arecheaper and don't produce when
the water quality is improved.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
Very good to know, very, very good to know.
Well, dan, great insights asalways.
Thanks for guiding us throughthe nuts and bolts of smarter
water access.
I feel smarter already justlistening to you, so for real.
So looking forward to our nextepisode.
Oh, thanks me too.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
all right, we'll see you then thank you for joining
us on the mountain view purepodcast.
When you're ready to transformyour home's water and air
quality, call or text423-218-9361 for a free in-home
consultation.
For more information visitmvpwaternet.

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Remember, great water is thefoundation of a great life.