How To Remove Fluoride From Your Drinking Water
If you are concerned about fluoride in your water, first, bear in mind that fluoride is not added to all public water supplies in the UK (more info on that below).
If you do need to remove fluoride, we suggest you should focus on a point of use water filter ie a water filter under your sink that you use for your drinking and cooking water.
This will be much more effective - and cheaper! - than a "whole of property" solution.
Best filter: Reverse Osmosis
Read more about reverse osmosis here.
Beware non-Reverse Osmosis solutions!
The problem with non-RO water filters that claim to remove fluoride is they wear out over time.
For example in Month One the water filter cartridge might claim to remove 99% of the fluoride. But by Month Three it will decline to eg 70%, and so on.
There is no known non-Reverse Osmosis cartrdige that doesn't wear out significantly over time. If a manufacturer claims otherwise, ask for their test results!
However a reverse osmosis water filter will remove at least 95%* of fluoride regardless of the quality of your water supply.
And this 95% performance is maintained for the life of the filters (6 months). It won't "wear out".
Plus it removes a huge range of other contaminants from your drinking and cooking water.
Read more about reverse osmosis here.
(*Note: RO removes at least 95% of fluoride. Probably more! It depends on your local water chemistry - a complex subject!)
Whole of house anti-fluoride solutions
a) For non-Reverse Osmosis whole house filters, the same issue about maintaining performance applies (see above).
b) Yes you can get whole of house Reverse Osmosis filters, but these are expensive! You can see our one here
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