Whole Home Water Filtration
Whole Home Water Filtration
The most versatile and best-selling whole home filtration appliance in the USA.
When it comes to protecting your family and your home’s plumbing from harmful contaminants, Imagine Plumbing is your go-to expert for professional installation of the EWS Whole Home Water Filtration System. Our team is highly experienced in water filtration and understands the importance of clean, safe water throughout your entire home. We ensure a seamless installation process while making sure your system performs at its best from day one. With Imagine Plumbing, you get more than just an install; you get peace of mind knowing your water is safer, cleaner, and healthier for your entire household.
• Filter all the water in your home with one system.
• World-class EWS quality and performance.
• Trusted by hospitals, health care centers, military, and
hundreds of thousands of private homes worldwide.
• Inhibits hard water build-up in pipes and on surfaces.
• No salts, no chlorides, and no metal resins.
• Hassle-free and low maintenance.
• Made in the USA, meets or exceeds all compliances.
• Protects you and your family from chlorine, chloramine,
THMs, voes, PFAS, pesticides, and more in tap water.
Chlorine (a common disinfectant used in USA tap water) and its byproducts are known carcinogens. Drinking or inhaling and absorbing them while showering or bathing is not recommended. The New York State Dept. of Health and President’s Cancer Panel recommend water filtration to reduce or eliminate exposure.
Enjoy Better Health
Prevents you and your family from absorbing and inhaling carcinogenic chlorine while showering and bathing. Enjoy better skin, hair, and overall health.
Ultimate Protection
All of our systems use our proprietary high-grade, biodegradable filtration media that effectively removes and reduces chlorine, chloramine, dyes, fuels, pharmaceutical residues, THMs, voes, PFAS, and much more.
100% Hassle Free
All of our systems are self-cleaning, USA-made appliance of the highest quality. The only maintenance is a simple filtration media replacement once up to every 10 years.
Help For Hard Water
EWS Series inhibits scale build-up in pipes and water heaters, makes it easier to wipe off water spots, and enables you to use less soap - all without salts, chemicals, or brine discharge.
Environmental Water systems
Environmental Water Systems whole home water filtration appliances are a definitive component of a healthy home and lifestyle. Made by hand in the United States. Meticulously engineered to the highest standards, using the latest technology and highest quality materials. Backed by our award-winning customer service and support. We never skimp. And neither should you.
Since 1987, EWS has pioneered central water filtration and is the leader in quality filtration appliances, trusted by hospitals, health care centers, military, high-end hotels, and thousands of private homes worldwide. Enjoy the hassle-free convenience of clean, filtered water to every sink and shower in your home and reduce your exposure to thousands of unregulated contaminants.
At A Glance
- Our best selling whole home water filtration + conditioning system is suitable for any home on city water treated with chlorine or chloramine (chlorine & ammonia).
- Filtered water for drinking and all uses throughout your entire home.
- Conditioning to help with issues associated with water hardness without the salts.
- Designed for 3/4″ to 1-1/2″ plumbing lines.
- Conditions water hardness up to 500 mg/l or 30 grains.
- Up to 37 gallons per minute (gpm) flow rate – does not limit flow rate or pressure.
- City water or well water**.
Features & Benefits
- Healthy, delicious, odor-free water for your entire home – with one system.
- Hassle-free system does not require any regular maintenance or frequent filter changes.
- Protects your family from contaminants that are absorbed into the skin while showering and bathing.
- 100% pure granular activated carbon (GAC) – no silver impregnation, no metal resins, no fillers.
- Proprietary highly reactive GAC is the highest grade and highest iodine rating available for the best absorption.
- Removes and reduces chlorine, chloramine, VOCs, THMs, PFAS, pesticides, pharmaceutical residues, and much more.
- Conditioning inhibits scale formation in pipes and water heaters and is much more gentle on plumbing, finishes, fixtures and appliances versus salt softening.
- Provides an easier wipe off and clean up of water spotting versus untreated water.
- Nice clean feeling on your skin while bathing and showering without the “slick” feeling from salt softened water.
- EWS is the environmentally safe alternative to salt (sodium or potassium chloride) softeners with no brine discharge or salts to add.
- Meets or exceeds all FDA, NSF, ANSI, and California State standards and compliances.
- Advanced easy to use valve monitors your water usage and self cleans when it reaches 4,000 gallons of usage or 10 days. Backwash water is simply water (and not an environmentally hazardous brine discharge like a softener) and can be repurposed or if needed you can set your valve for a water conservation setting.
- Up to 10-years or 2,500,000 gallon filtration media lifespan based on local water conditions and usage.
- 10-year warranty.
- Made in the USA.
**WELL WATER WARNING Well water is required to have independent, complete and proper testing of your well water to determine the proper course of action in order to specify the correct system(s).
Performance Data for all EWS Whole Home Filtration
Filtration Media for point of entry systems incorporate the same carbon quality which had been tested according to and exceeding NSF/ANSI 42, 401 and P473 for reduction of the substances listed below. Contaminants are chemically removed or reduced by absorption & adsorption through the carbon media. Media must backwash to achieve results according to material data.
| Contaminant / Parameter | Minimum Reduction |
Percent Reduction (Measured) |
Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chlorine Reduction, Free Available @ 2.0 mg/L | < 0.5 mg/L | > 99 % | Pass |
| Chloramine Reduction, Free Available @ 4.0 mg/L | < 0.5 mg/L | > 98 % | Pass |
| Particulate @ 20 micron | 85 % | > 99.99 % | Pass |
| Contaminant | Influent Challenge Concentration |
Maximum Permissible Product Water Concentration |
Percent Reduction (Measured) |
Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) & Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) | 1.5 ± 10 % µg/L | 0.07 µg/L | 96 % | Pass |
| Contaminant / Parameter | Maximum Concentration |
Minimum Reduction |
Percent Reduction |
Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atenolol | 30 µg/L | 94.2 % | 95 % | Pass |
| Bisphenol A (BPA) | 300 µg/L | 98.80 % | 99 % | Pass |
| Carbamazepine | 200 µg/L | 98.6 % | 98.9 % | Pass |
| DEET | 200 µg/L | 98.7 % | 98.9 % | Pass |
| Estrone | 20 µg/L | 96.30 % | 97 % | Pass |
| Ibuprofen | 60 µg/L | 95.3 % | 95.4 % | Pass |
| Linuron | 20 µg/L | 96.6 % | 96.6 % | Pass |
| Meprobamate | 60 µg/L | 94.7 % | 94.7 % | Pass |
| Metolachlor | 200 µg/L | 98.6 % | 98.6 % | Pass |
| Naproxen | 20 µg/L | 96.3 % | 96.4 % | Pass |
| Nonyl phenol | 200 µg/L | 97.50 % | 97.5 % | Pass |
| Phenytoin | 30 µg/L | 95.50 % | 95.6 % | Pass |
| TCEP | 700 µg/L | 98 % | 98 % | Pass |
| TCPP | 700 µg/L | 97.8 % | 98 % | Pass |
| Trimethoprim | 20 µg/L | 96.7 % | 98 % | Pass |
| Contaminant | Influent Challenge | Percent Reduction | EPA Max (MCL) mg/L |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fluoride (Hydrofluorosilicic Acid — HFSA, FSA) | 6.0 mg/L | > 99 % | 4.0 |
| Contaminant | EPA MCL mg/L | Influent Challenge (mg/L) | Effluent Maximum (mg/L) | Percent Reduction |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microplastics | — | 100 mg/L | <1 mg/L | >99 % |
| Compound | EPA MCL mg/L* | Influent Challenge (mg/L) | Effluent Maximum (mg/L) | Percent Reduction |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alachlor | 0.002 | 0.050 | 0.001 | >98 % |
| Atrazine | 0.003 | 0.100 | 0.003 | >97 % |
| Benzene | 0.005 | 0.081 | 0.001 | >99 % |
| Carbofuran (Furadan) | 0.040 | 0.190 | 0.001 | >99 % |
| Carbon Tetrachloride | 0.005 | 0.078 | 0.0018 | 98 % |
| Chlorobenzene | 0.100 | 0.077 | 0.001 | >99 % |
| Chloropicrin | — | 0.015 | 0.0002 | 99 % |
| 2,4-D (Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid) | 0.070 | 0.110 | 0.0017 | 98 % |
| Dibromochloropropane (DBCP) | 0.0002 | 0.052 | 0.00002 | >99 % |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | 0.600 | 0.080 | 0.001 | >99 % |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | 0.075 | 0.040 | 0.001 | >98 % |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | 0.005 | 0.088 | 0.0048 | >99 % |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | 0.007 | 0.083 | 0.001 | >99 % |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | 0.070 | 0.170 | 0.0005 | >99 % |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | 0.100 | 0.086 | 0.001 | >99 % |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | 0.005 | 0.080 | 0.001 | >99 % |
| cis-1,3-Dichloropropylene | — | 0.079 | 0.001 | >99 % |
| Dinoseb | 0.007 | 0.170 | 0.0002 | 99 % |
| Endrin | 0.002 | 0.053 | 0.00059 | 99 % |
| Ethylbenzene | 0.700 | 0.088 | 0.001 | >99 % |
| Ethylene Dibromide (EDB) | 0.00005 | 0.044 | 0.00002 | >99 % |
| Compound | EPA MCL mg/L | Influent Challenge (mg/L) | Effluent Maximum (mg/L) | Percent Reduction |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bromochloroacetonitrile | — | 0.022 | 0.0005 | 98 % |
| Dibromoacetonitrile | — | 0.024 | 0.0006 | 98 % |
| Dichloroacetonitrile | — | 0.0096 | 0.0002 | 98 % |
| Trichloroacetonitrile | — | 0.015 | 0.0003 | 98 % |
| Compound | EPA MCL mg/L | Influent Challenge (mg/L) | Effluent Maximum (mg/L) | Percent Reduction |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,1-Dichloro-2-propanone | — | 0.0072 | 0.0001 | 99 % |
| 1,1,1-Trichloro-2-propanone | — | 0.0082 | 0.0003 | 96 % |
| Heptachlor (H-34, Heptox) | 0.0004 | 0.250 | 0.00001 | >99 % |
| Heptachlor Epoxide | 0.0002 | 0.0107 | 0.0002 | 98 % |
| Hexachlorobutadiene | — | 0.044 | 0.001 | >99 % |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | 0.050 | 0.060 | 0.000002 | >99 % |
| Lindane | 0.0002 | 0.055 | 0.00001 | >99 % |
| Methoxychlor | 0.040 | 0.050 | 0.001 | >99 % |
| Pentachlorophenol | 0.001 | 0.096 | 0.001 | >99 % |
| Simazine | 0.004 | 0.120 | 0.004 | >97 % |
| Styrene (Vinylbenzene) | 0.100 | 0.150 | 0.0005 | >99 % |
| 1,1,2,2-Tetrachloroethane | — | 0.081 | 0.001 | >99 % |
| Tetrachloroethylene | 0.005 | 0.081 | 0.001 | >99 % |
| Toluene | 1.000 | 0.078 | 0.001 | >99 % |
| 2,4,5-TP (Silvex) | 0.050 | 0.270 | 0.0016 | 99 % |
| Tribromoacetic acid | — | 0.042 | 0.001 | >98 % |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | 0.070 | 0.160 | 0.0005 | >99 % |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | 0.200 | 0.084 | 0.0048 | 95 % |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | 0.005 | 0.150 | 0.0005 | >99 % |
| Trichloroethylene | 0.005 | 0.180 | 0.0010 | >99 % |
| Compound | EPA MCL mg/L | Influent Challenge (mg/L) | Effluent Maximum (mg/L) | Percent Reduction |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chloroform (TTHM)** | 0.080 | 0.300 | 0.015 | >99.8 % |
| Bromoform (TTHM)** | Chloroform was used as a surrogate (VOC testing protocol) | |||
| Bromodichloromethane (TTHM)** | See surrogate testing note above | |||
| Chlorodibromomethane (TTHM)** | See surrogate testing note above | |||
| Xylenes (Total) | 10.0 | 0.070 | 0.001 | >99 % |