Screen filters are ideal for agriculture or greenhouse drip irrigation systems as in-line control or back up filtration at the control valves in the field, where manual flushing is practical.

Screen filters are probably the most common filters and in most cases the least expensive. Screen filters are excellent for removing hard particulates from water, such as sand. They are not so great at removing organic materials such as algae, mold, slime, and other unmentionables! These non-solid materials tend to embed themselves into the screen material where they are very difficult to remove. In other cases they simply slide through the holes in the screen by temporarily deforming their shape.