Water filter test Geyser Aquarius

Advantages: excellent cleaning quality against heavy metals, handy pitcher, American-language life indicator.

Disadvantages: It seemed to us that the life of the cartridge is less than the manufacturer claimed.

Jug – 439 Dollars.,

A removable cartridge is 150 Dollars.

COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURER: America.

PURIFIED WATER VOLUME: 2 l.

SPOUT VOLUME: 1.2 liters.

LOAD RUNNING CASSETTE: max. 400 liters.

LIFE LIFE OF A REPLACEMENT CASSETTE: up to 3 months, for a family of 3 people 25 days, for a family of 2 people 50 days.

FILTER CASSETTE: module 502 for hard water. Composition: ion-exchange resin, Aragon ion-exchange polymer, active silver, coconut charcoal, mechanical filter.

TOOL LIFE: 10 years.

DIMENSIONS: 265×258×130 mm.

WEIGHT: 730g.

COLOUR: white, green, tinted smoky, graphite, blue on photo .

Ergonomics and convenience

Overall impression

Jug with bottom, lid and funnel in an oval shape, overall quite nice and comfortable. Too bad, that the graduation of volume in increments of 500 ml is not in the center, but close to the handle, and it is not immediately visible.

Cassette filter cartridge

Cylindrical shape, with threads for screwing. Installed and removed very easily and conveniently. The screwing system ensures tightness and prevents untreated water from getting into the tank.

Handle

It has an ergonomic shape and 3 rubber inserts to prevent slipping.

Lid:

Comfortable and not so comfortable at the same time. The valve for pouring water without removing the lid and the swivel-meter are in its favor. In addition, it sits on the funnel very tightly, does not allow dirt to get there and does not come off while pouring water out of the jug. The device for removing the lid is only a hole for pouring water, because the surface of the lid is smooth and it is removed with force, and the jug should be held by the handle.

Indicating cartridge replacement

The counter in the form of a mechanical rotary knob is located on the lid and makes it possible to determine the month in which the operating module was changed or, conversely, in which it is planned to be replaced. You can select the beginning, middle or end of the month for more precise orientation. It’s nice to note that the names of the months are in American.

Test results

1. Claimed manufacturer’s quality of after-treatment of water.

The manufacturer provided a hard water cassette for testing. The instructions state that “the efficiency of water purification from major impurities, depending on the quality of the initial water is up to 100%,” and the box has an inscription on the removal of “all known contaminants”. The consumer does not get more detailed information.

2. Purification from iron cations.

In the first control point 50 l , the content of iron cations in the model solution decreased from 0.48 to 0.18 mg/dm³ which is well below the MPC 0.3 mg/dm³ . Aquaphor turned out to be considerably more effective 0,005 , slightly weaker – Barrier 0.22 and Brita 0.25 . In the second control point 100 l the index improved relative to the results of the first control point 0,11 and allowed to keep the second place. At the last control point 150 L , the content of iron cations in the model solution decreased from 0.48 to 0.33 mg/dm³ which exceeds the MPC. This is the same result as the “Barrier” filter, which at first failed to keep up with the “Geyser” in this test.

Conclusion: this cartridge copes with iron removal only for a quarter of its life it is not designed specifically for this purpose and does not do it .

3. Cleaning of hardness salts.

At the first control point, the content in the model solution of hardness salts has decreased from 7.5 to 4.2 ° J, which is significantly lower than the MPC 7.0 ° J , while the filter took first place, though not by as much as we expected: the “Aquaphor” and Brita – 4.6. In the second test point, the score improved relative to the first test point 3.7 and allowed to keep the lead with a small margin Brita – 3.8 . At the last test point, the overall hardness index was 6.3, which is worse than Brita the leader with 5.9 at the end of its resource and Aquaphor 6.1 at half the resource .

Conclusion: the cartridge is designed to soften hard water, but copes with this task perfectly only for the first 100 liters. Then it let itself be overtaken by the non-designated cassettes of other manufacturers.

4. Additional purification from copper cations.

At the first reference point, the content in the model solution of copper cations decreased from 1.02 to 0.027 mg/dm³ that is dozens of times lower than the MAC 1.0 mg/dm³ . And again, the Aquaphor was more efficient 0,005 , slightly stronger – “Barrier” 0.044 , and the last “came” Brita 0,048 .

In the second control point the index decreased 0.07 . Passed only by Brita, this cartridge ranks third in this test, while Aquafor still holds the previous score, and Barrier shows excellent performance 0.065 .

At the last control point the content of copper cations in the model solution decreased from 1.02 to 0.183 mg/dm³, which is significantly lower than MPC and is the third, but very good indicator.

Aquaphor and Barrier are better: 0.07 and 0.15, respectively, and this at half the life of the former and Brita is worse 0.22 with an expired life, but still almost 5 times lower than the MAC.

CONCLUSION: very good purification level of copper cations and therefore of other heavy metals.

5. Purification from chlorine.

In the first control point, the content of chlorine in the model solution decreased from 0.83 to 0.22 mg/dm³ which is below the MPC 0.3-0.5 mg/dm³ . Unfortunately, it’s last place behind Aquafor 0.03 , Barrier 0.11 and Brita 0.16 .

At the second control point, the indicator deteriorated 0.41 and became just within the MPC, although it should be noted that 1/2 of the chlorine from the model solution was removed. At the same time, the leader still has 0.03, Brita the same as it was, 0.16, “Barrier” – 0.08 a confident second place .

In the third control point, 0.46: also within the MPC, but significantly worse than the other participants.

Conclusion: this cartridge copes with chlorine aftertreatment is not brilliant, but still removes about half of it, and not 100%. And yet there is still a long way to the end of the resource – as much as 250 liters!