How Do Refrigerator Water Filters Work?

Part of caring for your family is making sure your recipes and their cups have clean, fresh-tasting water. Most refrigerator water dispensers make it easy to access clean water that's been through a triple filtration process.

The filtration process explained

Refrigerator filters force water through three stages that trap dangerous contaminants, pollutants and particles found in many city water sources.

Particle-Filtration

Help block larger contaminants like sand and silt.

Micro-Filtration

Help capture medium-sized contaminants like sugars and cysts.

Picture of the inside of filter with circular image of particles.

Adsorption-Filtration

Help adsorb microscopic contaminants like atoms, ions or molecules from a gas.

How well do refrigerator water filters work?

Whirlpool^® brand refrigerators work with everydrop^® water filters that use activated carbon from coconut shells to reduce up to 73 contaminants and capture 99.9% of lead¹. Activated carbon functions like a contaminant magnet, trapping lead, pesticides and pharmaceuticals. The coconut shell design even helps remove contaminants that affect taste, like chlorine and iron.

Care Tip: Replace your filter every 6 months and only consider filters certified by NSF International*.

*NSF International is an accredited, independent third-party certification body that tests and certifies products to verify they meet these public health and safety standards.

Water being dispensed from refrigerator filter among other food items inside a refrigerator.

everydrop^® refrigerator water filters

Everydrop^® filters take roughly 5 minutes to install. Look for the colored number on your filter and consider purchasing a subscription to automatically ship a replacement filter every three or six months. Whirlpool can also help you change your filter.