PureWay designs and installs whole-home filtration systems built for Central Texas water — the Edwards Aquifer limestone, the chloramine, the scale. One system, every tap, tested before we touch your plumbing.
Central Texas water travels through limestone for thousands of years before it reaches your tap, picking up calcium and magnesium the entire way. That's what's coating your showerhead, shortening your water heater's life, and drying out your skin.
Most people only think about what's in their drinking water. But a kitchen pitcher filter never touches your shower — and showering may be the biggest exposure of your day, not the smallest.
Skin is your body's largest organ, and it's more permeable than most people realize. Hot water opens pores and increases how much chlorine and chloramine your skin absorbs directly from the water — no swallowing required.
Chlorine, chloramine, and disinfection byproducts like trihalomethanes (THMs) vaporize out of hot water. Over a typical 8–10 minute shower, you're breathing concentrated steam in an enclosed space the entire time.
Research on household water exposure has found that skin absorption and inhalation during a shower can add up to as much chemical exposure as drinking the same water all day — sometimes more, since heat increases both pathways at once.
Children absorb proportionally more per pound of body weight because their skin is thinner and more permeable, which is one reason pediatric-focused guidance increasingly points toward filtering bath and shower water, not just drinking water.
A pitcher or fridge filter treats one faucet. A whole-home system treats the water at every tap, showerhead, and hose bib in the house — including the one you stand under for 10 minutes every morning.
When tap water feels untrustworthy, bottled water is the obvious response. It's also a bandage, not a fix — and it comes with its own problems.
A 2024 Columbia University study found the average liter of bottled water contains roughly 240,000 detectable plastic particles — about 90% of them nanoplastics, small enough to potentially cross biological barriers that larger particles can't. Early research has begun to explore what that might mean: studies published in Nature Medicine (Feb. 2025), the Journal of Hazardous Materials (March 2024), and Science Advances (Nov. 2023) have each reported correlations between nanoplastic exposure and biological markers associated with dementia, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's disease respectively — prompting further research rather than establishing a confirmed cause. Cited bottled water data above via Food & Water Watch, The Guardian, and WWF.
Bottled water also only covers drinking — it doesn't touch your shower, your dishwasher, or your kids' bathwater. A whole-home system addresses the water you actually live with, not just the water you occasionally drink from a bottle.
We test your actual water on-site — hardness, chlorine/chloramine, sediment, and pH — no guessing from a zip code average.
Household size, water usage, and your test results determine the right system configuration — not a one-size-fits-all box.
Most whole-home installs are completed in a single day by a local PureWay-certified installer, with a walkthrough when it's done.
Filter and salt monitoring, seasonal checkups, and a direct line to your local rep for as long as you own the system.
PureWay systems are used by homeowners across the country, but every Austin-area install is handled by your local rep and installation crew — people who test Central Texas water every week and know exactly what the Edwards Aquifer does to a house. Same manufacturer-backed equipment, local accountability.
More About PureWayEvery zip code in Central Texas draws from the same hard-water sources, but exact readings shift block to block. Find your city for local numbers.
You don't have to wait for a scare or a broken water heater to do something about it. A free test tells you exactly what's in your water today — what you do with that information is up to you.
Book Your Free TestFree, no-obligation water test for Austin-area homeowners. Takes about 20 minutes.