Water quality is of the utmost importance when serving carbonated fountain beverages. Microscopic dirt particles that may be found in water will drive carbonation out of a beverage, leaving it stale and unappealing—leading to a much different flavour than that of bottled beverages. Untreated water can also lead to abrasion, clogging and equipment damage.
Several Everpure competitors now produce counterfeit replacement filter cartridges or adapters for cartridges designed to fit Everpure filter heads, thus enabling their products to be used in place of legitimate Everpure replacement cartridges.
Such "hybrid" systems—one company's head mated to...