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06-07-2014, 10:58 AM
No doubt a lot of posters will know about BPAs, heavy metal, estrogen contamination in tap and shower water, etc, but has anyone any verifiable knowledge or experience of home filtration ideas to remove or reduce the harmful content?
Silver or carbon filters are supposedly reliable for filtering dirty water, i.e. bacteria, but will they stop anti-androgens from getting into your glass or your morning cold shower?
If not, will anything else?
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06-07-2014, 02:42 PM
We boil our drinking water and run it though BRITA.
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06-07-2014, 04:58 PM
An ion exchange resin water softener followed by an activated carbon filter should get rid of most things. If you're really paranoid tack a reverse osmosis filter on the tail end and you'll have super clean water. You might want to take some mineral supplements though because you'll be stripping out most of the calcium and magnesium in the process (which is good for filtration because they interfere with the effectiveness of the activated carbon).
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06-07-2014, 09:33 PM
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06-07-2014, 10:26 PM
I've been considering getting the office-style watercooler thing in my place for drinking water. Does this type of bottled water contain all of the garbage that they put in municipal water?
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06-09-2014, 08:19 PM
Anyone have experience/knowledge of reverse osmosis filters?
I was told that they are superior to Brita-type filters in that it will get flouride and other additives out of the water, where as the Brita will not. But I'm of limited knowledge on the subject.
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07-27-2017, 01:32 AM
We have RO filter parterned with water softener installed in our home.
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07-27-2017, 08:06 PM
I have a whole house system. RO and softener.
My house is at the shit end of the city water supply.
The big difference is the showers dontnget filthy. You don't get soap scum. I would install one on any new build if you are putting in fancy stone shows stuff.
Water tastes better too.
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