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What’s In My Drinking Water?

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Last Update: 3 September 2025

What’s In My Drinking Water?
Summary

Did you know that even readily available tap water can pose health risks due to contaminants like heavy metals, microplastics, chlorine, and chloramine? Studies show we consume significant amounts of microplastics weekly, often from tap water, and local water sources like Hinze Dam have detected naturally occurring mercury. These impurities can lead to severe long-term health effects, making the quality of our drinking water crucial for well-being.

Gold Coast Plumbing Company offers an affordable solution: a water filtration system for just $1 a day. This system not only removes harmful chemicals and bacteria, ensuring cleaner, better-tasting water, but also provides substantial savings compared to bottled water – costing less than 1 cent per litre. Beyond the health and financial benefits, installing a filter reduces plastic waste, contributing to a healthier planet. The service includes annual maintenance, filter replacements, and an extended warranty, ensuring peace of mind and continuous access to purified water.

Did you know, and you might not believe it, having no water at hand is not the only threat to our health? Even an available water supply can pose some risks. You might think that’s impossible since as long as we have something to drink, there’s nothing else to worry about, right? No need to differentiate alkaline water, purified, and simply water tap. Well, the unfiltered water that comes out of our taps… it’s not pure water alone despite the high regular price you pay.

Curious about what’s in our glass of water and why it’s not pure water alone? Well, without further ado, let’s read about the possible harmful contaminants running side by side with our water and why water filtered through activated carbon, it’s better and keeps the water fresh. And we can introduce you too to a water filter or filtration system for only $1 per day! You’ll want to drink more water with the best filtration technology to filter water in from the molecular structure. So, let’s get into it and know about healthier water!

What’s In My Drinking Water?

The quality of the water we drink is essential to our health.

Many factors contribute to the contamination of our fresh water. Along with this, extreme weather conditions and climate change are threatening our clean drinking water quality now more than ever. Organic debris containing heavy metals and toxins from the bottom of waterways is also released during high rainfall or extreme low tides.

Without water purifiers, bushfires, salinity, blue-green algae outbreaks, and acid sulphate caused by land clearing also pose risks to our quality water supply. Most of the common treatments used in the Gold Coast and Australia do not remove the heavy metals, microplastics and harmful chemicals found in our tap water. And these contaminants can have severe and long term health effects.

A study by the University of Newcastle found that globally, we consume over 5 grams of microplastics per week. They found that the most significant source of this came from a water bottle and tap water.

On the Gold Coast, our primary water source is the Hinze Dam. Water flows from it to our pipes. But the council has warned not to eat the fish from the dam, as naturally occurring mercury has been detected in the water.

Also found in our water supply are chlorine and chloramine. These chemicals are used as a disinfectant to reduce the pathogens and microorganisms found in our water. Chloramine is ammonia derived gas that can increase lead exposure in our water due to its acidic nature. There are also byproducts of chloramine identified to be carcinogenic.

Imagine if we drink the water without any water purifier. Interested now to find a portable water filter?

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Water Filter For Only $1 Per Day For Your Tap

While you don’t need to have a portable filter, having a water filter installed for your tap means you can rest assured the water you are drinking is free from contaminants. Not only this, but with a filtered water system, you won’t only drink clean water, your water also tastes better. A water filter removes the chemicals, chlorine, bacteria and other contaminants that might otherwise end up in your glass. And buying filtered bottled water from the supermarket costs around 40 cents per litre, whilst the large blue bottled of filtered water can be up to $1 per litre.

We have an exclusive offer that guarantees you will receive over 200% of your money back! And not just that, but if you are not completely satisfied in the first 30 days, we will refund you double your money. Call 1300 792 041 today!

Our Two Filter Options

Under Sink Filter With Attachment

The first option is ideal for anyone looking to change their kitchen. This water filter is mounted under your sink and connected to your existing tap’s cold water.

Under Sink Filter With Tap

The second option involves adding a stylish bench tap to your sink area, with the water filter still being mounted under your kitchen bench. The added tap will produce filtered water, freeing up your kitchen tap.

What We Can Offer You

With our water systems, you can improve your families’ health by installing a specifically designed filtration system for Gold Coast water. And, if your filter system needs replacing under warranty, you will not pay a cent. But that’s not all, also included in our service is:

  • Annual servicing
  • Filter replacements
  • Maintenance
  • Extended warranty
  • Exclusive member pricing for plumbing products and services
  • $100 off any plumbing service
  • $100 off any plumbing service every annual service
  • Reminders for annual services

There Are Even More Benefits!

As mentioned above, buying filtered water from the supermarket costs around 40 cents per litre, whilst the large blue bottled of filtered water can be up to $1 per litre. Installing a water filter with Gold Coast Plumbing Company means your filtered water will cost less than 1 cents per litre! And you’ll have the best water filter available all the time in your home for constant water purification. A sweet package, right? No more unpleasant taste or unpleasant odours, plus no more expensive water bottles and hello filter water and a filter life! A portable water filter is a good idea, but having filtered water from home in your water bottle is also as good as having one.

Along with saving you money, not buying bottled water means you are reducing the use of plastics for landfills. The carbon filters installed into our filters are made from coconut fibre, meaning we are working with our suppliers to find a way to make these replacement filter recyclable. And think about the amount of carbon emissions it takes to deliver one bottle, much more lots of bottles. Delivering them is not “free shipping”. But with a water purifier at home, you can have all the water or as much water as you need and still help nature.

After 24 months, you will own the water filtration system outright; however, you can continue participating in our membership program to receive exclusive deals and discounts. Payment arrangements can be stopped or paused by contacting one of our friendly staff, and if you are looking to move house, we only charge $100 for a relocation fee.

Get Your Water Filtration System

Knowing what we know about our great tasting water, our friendly team has decided to bring the most affordable water filters and replacement filters to the Gold Coast and we can help you choose one from among the best choices. If you want something you can trust to give full refund in case the purification system doesn’t work— we can help you there! The main reason our friendly team have decided to do this because we care about the health and wellbeing of our community. In many respects, we want you to only have safe drinking water. The best stuff in the best way possible, that’s what we want for you. A water not only safe and affordable but the water tastes really amazing too.

Our membership program has many benefits to ensure you are 100% satisfied with our workmanship and the water purifiers. For more information on getting your great tasting water filtered or to talk to one of our experts concerning other methods aside from getting a water filter to save money on your water, you can contact us or book online today! If your tank water filter is having trouble and you don’t know how to fix it or where to buy replacement parts, you can still reach out to us! We can fix and maintain your water purifier.

“It’s our responsibility as leaders in the industry to give our clients information to make an informed decision and solutions to safeguard their health with chemical-free and great tasting drinking water.”
Dane Beazley, leader of the best team of plumbers on the Gold Coast.

Filtered water for less than 1c per litre for just $1 a day!

“Great water filter. I could not drink the water before in the Logan area (QLD) had a weird smell. Now it has a great taste and no smell! I can highly recommend this under sink water filter.”

Shaun B

Published by: Pascal Harb3 September 2025

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