Drinking water solutions are the options for improving the water you actually drink and cook with, at the tap rather than the whole house: a dedicated filtered faucet, an under-sink carbon system, or reverse osmosis. Smith helps match the option to your water test results and how your kitchen is used.
For homes focused on taste, odor, and daily drinking-water use, Smith can recommend targeted drinking-water solutions that fit the kitchen and the household's needs.
Point-of-Use Drinking Water Improvement
Drinking water solutions focus on point-of-use improvement where cleaner, better-tasting water matters most. Smith helps you understand how these options differ from whole-home water treatment and where each approach fits best.
Drinking Water Solutions Can Help With
- Taste concerns
- Odor concerns
- Daily drinking-water use
- Kitchen-focused water improvement
- Cooking and beverage use
- Understanding the difference between point-of-use and whole-home treatment
Where Drinking Water Solutions Fit
Smith helps you understand how targeted drinking-water options differ from whole-home Water Treatment and where each approach fits best. The goal is to recommend the right solution at the right location.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best way to improve drinking water at the kitchen sink?
It depends on what you are trying to remove. If the complaint is chlorine taste or odor, an under-sink carbon filter handles it simply and cheaply. If testing shows dissolved solids, nitrates or metals, reverse osmosis is the stronger option. Starting with a water test avoids buying equipment that does not address your actual issue.
Is filtered tap water better than bottled water?
For most Front Range households, a properly specified filter at the tap gives comparable or better water without the packaging, the storage or the repeat purchases. Bottled water is also not uniformly better — much of it is filtered municipal water. The real advantage of a tap system is that it is always there, so people actually use it.
Do I need a separate faucet for a drinking water system?
Usually yes for reverse osmosis and most dedicated under-sink systems, because treated water comes through its own small faucet mounted at the sink. That keeps the treatment system from having to handle dishwashing volume. Some newer kitchen faucets have a second waterway built in, which avoids drilling an extra hole in the countertop.
When is a pitcher or refrigerator filter good enough?
A pitcher or refrigerator filter is genuinely enough when the only complaint is chlorine taste and one or two people drink the water. Both use carbon, the same media an under-sink filter uses, just less of it and replaced more often. Step up to a plumbed system when household volume makes cartridge swapping tiresome, or when testing shows something carbon does not remove.
Will a drinking water system fix hard water complaints like spotted dishes and dry skin?
No. A drinking water system treats one faucet, so dishes washed in untreated water still spot, showers still feel the same, and scale keeps building in the water heater. Those are hardness complaints, and hardness is treated on the main line with a softener. The two solve different problems, and plenty of Front Range homes end up with both.