What does a British Berkefeld® system filter?

In Europe, although tap water is safe to drink almost everywhere, it is not without its problems. There are regular episodes of pollution, or areas where the water is still drinkable but of very poor quality.

The reason is simple: the water drawn to supply the drinking water system is increasingly polluted with a growing number of dangerous and varied toxic substances. Among the recurring and almost ubiquitous pollutants are agricultural products (pesticides, fertilisers, etc.), heavy metals from industrial pollution, micro-plastics, and a whole host of chemical products from various sources. For several years now, there has also been an increase in pollution caused by drug residues from human waste. At the top of the list are antibiotics, anti-depressants, oestrogens from contraception, anti-cancer drugs and many others, which are excreted in the urine and end up in rivers and, ultimately, in the groundwater from which our tap water is collected.

Wastewater treatment plants, even if they are designed and modernised to filter out some of these pollutants, do not have the capacity to filter out all these molecules effectively. As a result, some of them end up in our tap water and in our bodies.