Watts WP5-50 Premier Five-Stage Manifold Reverse Osmosis Water Treatment System

The Watts Premier Five-Stage Reverse Osmosis Water Filtration Device is the most complete water filtration system available on the market. Featuring a five-stage filtration process, the RO incorporates sediment, coconut-shell carbon, and reverse osmosis technologies to provide great-tasting, bottled-quality water straight from your tap.

Five-Stage Filtration Removes Contaminants

The Watts RO filters in five stages to ensure that your drinking water is as healthy and clean as possible. Once the system is connected, water passes through a 5-micron sediment filter that traps particulate matter–such as dirt, rust, and silt–that can affect the taste and appearance of your water. Next, a 5-micron carbon block filter reduces chlorine taste and odour, as well as other materials that can give water a bad taste. For the third stage, another 5-micron carbon block filter further reduces chlorine, as well as difficult-to-remove chloramines.

Reverse Osmosis

The system’s fourth stage of filtration is especially important, as it involves the passage of water through the reverse osmosis (RO) membrane.

This semi-permeable membrane effectively removes arsenic, lead, perchlorate, chromium, copper, TDS (total dissolved solids), sodium, and a long list of other water contaminants. It also removes parasitic cysts, such as giardia and cryptosporidia.

The fifth stage of filtration utilizes a high quality GAC filter, which works as a final polishing filter when the water leaves the storage tank on its way up to your faucet. The end result is consistently great-tasting water at just pennies per gallon.

Technical Details

  • 5-stage manifold reverse osmosis water treatment system offers a continuous supply of water for the whole family
  • Manifold design provides seamless water path, effectively eliminating 17 connections
  • Nitrate reduction
  • NSF tested and certified
  • 3-year limited warranty

THE REVIEW

The Watts WP5-50 is a 5 stage Reverse Osmosis filter which as you would expect produces excellent water quality with many of the well-known contaminants removed. The Watts WP5-50 Premier Five-Stage Manifold Reverse Osmosis Water filter is the easiest of all the reverse osmosis type systems we have reviewed and is the cheapest to maintain. Many of our users had have bought water filters in the past and all of them commented on how easy the Watts WP5 was to install compared to other RO units they have used. One astute reviewer conducted his own tests using a TDS (total dissolvable solids) testing kit, and found that the Watts WP5 reduced the TDS in his tap water from 300 to 15, which is very impressive.  The filters for the Watts WP5 need replacing every six months and cost around $40, the cheapest we have seen do far.

However  70% of reviewers said the unit makes a very loud gurgling noise when it is refilling and an even louder hissing noise when you turn the tap on and off which can last for up to 20 minutes. One user compared the hissing noise to a frying pan.

Buy from Amazon

Other users mentioned that some components were either missing or damaged when the unit arrived, but also praised Watts for how quickly the sent out replacement parts. One reviewer remarked “The support rep was kind, friendly and extremely helpful”. You will also need to be aware that the faucet (tap) which you see on the product picture has been discontinued and replaced with a plastic version which has been described as “flimsy” and “cheaper looking” by people some purchasers.

Recommendation

We recommend the Watts WP5-50 Premier Five-Stage Manifold Reverse Osmosis Water filter, as it produces good quality drinking water, is fairly easy to install and is not expensive to maintain. In addition Watts have an excellent customer service team who will respond to any problems or queries you may have. Overall this is a good buy and we again found that Amazon has the best price for the Watts WP5-50 Premier Five-Stage Manifold Reverse Osmosis Water Treatment System.

Click here to check it out.

 

More Reviews