While water disinfection reduces common contaminants and heavy metals, it cannot fully remove organic pollutants and heavy metal ions.

For this reason, installing a water purifier has become a must for safe tap water use.

However, many low-cost water purifiers use low-grade internal tubing, such as ordinary PP pipes or 304 stainless steel pipes.

In fact, high-quality water purifiers work best with non-toxic, odorless silicone tubing. It is affordable and easy to replace when needed.

Transparent silicone tubing offers excellent high and low temperature resistance, acid and alkali resistance, and high clarity.

These features make it an excellent choice for transporting water and other liquids in food and beverage machinery.

In addition, modern water treatment mainly uses two technologies: ultrafiltration membrane and RO reverse osmosis.

The biggest difference lies in filtration precision.

RO membrane is about 10 times more precise than ultrafiltration.

Ultrafiltration offers precision of 0.001 μm, while RO reverse osmosis reaches 0.0001 μm.

The two technologies have different strengths.

Ultrafiltration removes impurities while keeping beneficial trace elements and supporting a high water flow rate.

RO filtration can remove nearly all dissolved substances in water, providing a higher level of safety for drinking water.