The Best Apartment Water Filter Systems

When your lease or rental agreement prevents you from buying a whole house filtration

If the water in your apartment taste bad or a test shows that water coming to your apartment is not healthy to drink, there are several options from which to buy a water filter system. Because of your the lease or rental restrictions, your choice of a home water filtration system may be limited to a countertop, faucet mount, pitcher/carafe, or a refrigerator filter.

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While home owners have unlimited options to install a water treatment in their house, apartment dwellers may not be able to install a water filter that may need plumbing works.

Here is a list of six recommended water filter system types ideal for apartment dwellers:

Countertop Water Filters
This type of system simply sits on your kitchen counter while a hose from the filter is mounted on to your water faucet. For instance, this NSF-certified Multi-Pure stainless steel MPCT model sits on the counter next to the kitchen sink. A hose and a diverter valve assembly is attached to the unit connects to your existing standard faucet. The filter life or filtering capacity is approximately 12 months or 750 gallons.

Available on Multi-Pure website.

Faucet Mount water filter
You simply attach to a standard water faucet in your kitchen sink. This Brita’s high-tech Aquaview Filtration System mounts neatly underneath the faucet necks. It comes with a special lever or diverter that releases unfiltered water for hand washing or dish washing. It also comes with an electronic filter notification that alerts users when it’s time for a replacement filter. The useful life and filtering capacity is approximately 4 months and 100 gallons of filtered water, respectively.

Available on Amazon and Walmart.com

Refrigerator water filters
This type of water filtration systems may not be applicable for all apartment dwellers. The use of a refrigerator filter system may depend on whether the refrigerator comes with a filtering features. Most refrigerators come with a water filtration device these days. Fridge filters are available through the fridge manufactures or online, especially on Amazon and WaterFilters.net.

Ceramic Gravity Water Filter
One of the best innovation gravity filters is this handcrafted ceramic water filter system. The filter technology is based on the age old clay water pot being used in Africa and in South America. The system will keep cool filtered water right on your countertop.

TheTerra Cotta Water Crock contains a granular activated charcoal filter made from coconut shells and a KDF media, then drips into the lower chamber where it's ready for drinking.

Several brands available on Buy.com. In Canada, you might lower your shipping cost if you buy from Lifespices.

Water Cooler Filter
Like this ZeroWater Filter Bottle Water Cooler, you are simply saying goodbye to delivery service while welcoming better tasting water.   You just pour your tap water into the top of the large bottle and unfiltered water will flow through filtration stages. The filtered water is collected through the filter system dispenser.

Available on Amazon.

Carafe/Pitcher Water Filter
The quickest way to filter your water without an elaborate installation is the use of a water pitcher. Just pour your tap water into the pitcher and you are ready to drink healthy water in minutes. The downside is the frequency of changing your filter. Some may need replacement filters in less than two months unlike a countertop filter which may last up to 12 months.

Available on Amazon