Drinking Water Filtration for St. Petersburg Kitchens
Tampa Bay Water supplies most of St. Petersburg with a blend of Floridan Aquifer groundwater, treated surface water, and desalinated seawater — with the City of St. Petersburg also running its own system — and that mix is disinfected with chloramine before it reaches your tap. Chloramine holds on longer than plain chlorine, so even after a whole-home filter, a lot of St. Pete residents notice a flat, chemical edge to their drinking and cooking water straight from the kitchen faucet.
Why the Kitchen Tap Needs Its Own Filtration
A whole-home system is built to treat volume — showers, laundry, every fixture in the house — but the water you actually drink and cook with deserves a finer level of filtration. Reverse osmosis pushes water through a membrane that reduces total dissolved solids along with chlorine and chloramine taste, so what comes out of the kitchen faucet tastes noticeably cleaner and more consistent, even as the blend from Tampa Bay Water shifts between aquifer, surface, and desalinated sources.
- Puronics Micromax 7000 — an under-sink RO system that reduces TDS and chlorine/chloramine taste for clearer, better-tasting water right at the kitchen tap.
- Hydronex iGen — our whole-home combo unit, a natural pairing for households that want chloramine and hardness handled at every tap plus polished water at the sink.
Micromax 7000 carries the same Puronics WQA Gold Seal and Franklin Electric backing as the rest of our lineup, installed by our own techs and serviced locally if it’s ever needed. As a family-owned, firefighter-founded company expanding into St. Petersburg, we’ve already put 16+ systems into homes in the area, and stand behind that work with 4.7 stars and 190+ Google reviews.
Find Out What’s Coming Out of Your Faucet
We’ll test your water in your home, free and with no obligation, and walk you through what an RO system would actually change at your tap. 0% financing is available through Synchrony and Wisetack. Call 941-266-8991 to set up your free St. Petersburg water test.
St. Petersburg Drinking Water — common questions
What does a reverse osmosis drinking system remove?
RO reduces a wide range of dissolved contaminants — PFAS, lead, nitrate, fluoride, sodium, and the dissolved solids behind taste and odor. In St. Petersburg, hard, chlorinated Tampa Bay Water makes better-tasting drinking water a common upgrade. It installs under the kitchen sink.
Is RO better than a fridge or pitcher filter in St. Petersburg?
A pitcher or fridge filter mainly improves taste; RO removes a far broader list down to a much smaller particle size and gives filtered water on demand from its own faucet. For St. Petersburg drinking water, RO is the step up.
Does reverse osmosis remove PFAS?
Yes — RO is one of the most effective home methods for reducing PFAS, because the membrane filters particles far smaller than these compounds. A free in-home test can check what your St. Petersburg water is dealing with.
