The Christmas season gets a lot of attention for the big moments. Decorations go up, calendars fill fast, and kitchens suddenly become the most important room in the house. In the middle of all that activity, clean water is doing a lot of heavy lifting without ever being part of the conversation.

If you run a hotel, hospital, apartment complex, manufacturing facility, pharmaceutical plant, or any large-scale commercial property, you probably know how critical clean, reliable water is. Whether you’re dealing with water for drinking, process use, boilers, cooling towers, or general facility plumbing, the right multi-media filter (MMF) can make all the difference.

When it comes to improving water quality, many people assume that commercial water filtration systems are simply larger versions of whole-house water filtration setups. While both types of systems purify water, they serve very different purposes, operate on different scales, and are engineered for completely different demands.

Water treatment is one of those things most people don’t think about—until something goes wrong.

Collaborating with humanitarian organization Good Neighbors, Fila has installed water filtration systems at several health centers.