Why choose Marigold?
Marigold has new proprietary technology, engineered from a consumer’s standpoint to achieve what matters: simple, healthy, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly drinking water for your family.
Why not Reverse Osmosis?
Marigold Water Systems does not sell Reverse Osmosis water systems for home drinking water use. It would be easy to produce an expensive and inefficent system like that and sell you up to that product for a greater company profit. But that is simply not the best system for home drinking water. Marigold products are designed for optimized performance working with your water system and water usage.
01
RO water is over-filtered water
Simply put, RO systems provide too much filtration at great expense to you and the environment. RO systems remove the healthy minerals from your water, the minerals that make your water taste good and refreshing. This leaves you with a bland taste that is like distilled water. Recognizing this, some of the very expensive units attempt to ADD back the kind of minerals that you paid so much to remove.
02
RO water is warm water
RO systems are so slow at filtration that they are forced to put a storage tank underneath your sink. Water produced is slowly stored in this tank while you are not using filtered water. The water you drink has been sitting in this tank and warming up for hours. If they want cool water, users are forced to fill a pitcher and put it in the refrigerator.
03
RO water is slow water
Once you have used up the tepid water in the storage tank, the flow becomes too slow to be usable. Come back later.
04
RO water is stale water
Water sitting at room temperature for long periods begins to taste stale and lifeless.
05
RO water is environmentally wasteful water
The dirty little secret about RO systems is that for every gallon of drinking water produced, 4-10+ gallons of water is completely wasted. This water goes through all of the pre-filters, then is dumped down the drain at the membrane element. Most RO customers are shocked to discover this, usually after they buy their system. If that sounds as ridiculous to you as it is, check it out yourself. RO is very environmentally unfriendly.
06
RO water is recontaminated water
Water sitting in a warm tank begins to grow bacterial colonies and slime. Have you ever noticed the slippery inside surface of a water container left overnight? Bacteria. Some very expensive RO systems will add another filter downstream of the RO membrane to try and keep the slime from reaching the faucet. Most units don't. The bacteria is never cleaned out of the tank. If you cut open a well used RO system the inside of that tank will be black and slimy.
07
RO water is risky water
People are led to believe that RO is the pinnacle of water filtration and so can be given a false assurance that you can filter bacterially usafe water. No water filter system will reliably do that. Never trust any filtration system to remove biological contaminants. The membrane on an RO system is degraded by chlorine. That's why RO systems have dead-end prefilters upstream of the membrane. If you do not replace that prefilter in time, your membrane can fail and you will not know it until its too late.
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RO water is expensive water
Despite the old saying, you don't always get what you pay for. RO systems are the most costly systems to buy up-front. Then after use, there are multiple pre-filters that require regular replacement or the system can become disabled. Most of the capacity of these pre-filters is wasted on filtered water put down the drain. RO membrane elements are extremely expensive by themselves, and thus are often not replaced at all. If they are not replaced on schedule, what little benefit they provide is gone. To add insult to injury, most people have to PAY their utility sewer charges to dump expensive pre-filtered water down the drain. Remember, that can be over 10 gallons of wasted, pre-filtered water discarded for every single gallon of drinking water produced.
Why not use standard water filters?
You have seen the multitudes of blue and white filter systems available today. They look like generic systems, all the same color, all with some form of the words Aqua or Pure in their forgettable names. They look generic because they really are technologically generic, even the big brands. All of them are add-on units that are not integrated into your water system. All of them share the same age old design where the dirt goes into the dead-end housing and never gets cleaned out. Marigold is optimized for drinking water use to provide cleaner, fresher, tastier water.
01
Standard filters are dead-end filters
Notice that all these old-fashioned systems have two water ports on them. One brings unfiltered water in, and the second sends filtered water to your drinking water tap. Contaminants are designed to be embedded in the filter elements. The dirt never leaves your drinking water stream. Your drinking water is constantly washing through these layers of dirt. Marigold continually flushes out that dirt.
02
Standard systems provide stale water
Water that sits inside the filter system between filtered water uses, becomes stale and stagnant. Marigold flushes out the stale water.
03
Standard Systems produce expensive water
While the up-front cost of these systems can be relatively low, the operating costs are higher. These units often put multiple stages of standard dead-end filters in-line to progressively remove smaller and smaller particles. This is not an advantage for you, the customer, it is a limitation of these standard systems. They try to convince buyers that more filters to replace is a benefit to the customer. Marigold has only one filter to replace. Because of our proprietary technology, the filter is not packing in layers of dirt that can plug the system.
04
Standard systems prematurely plug their elements
Depending on your water source, dead-end filters are more prone to premature plugging from contaminants that pack in, and bacteria that grows in the stagnant water inside their unit.
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