Reverse Osmosis Water Filters

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Reverse Osmosis Water Filters

• The tap water that comes out of your faucet is
  perfect. Get a filter or be a filter. Which of
  these two sentences are more true? Both are
  partially true. In many places, tap water does
  not taste good. In other places, tap water has
  tiny amounts of substances you would not want to
  drink - and over a lifetime might have an affect
  on you. There are many kinds of potential
  problems in tap water. Even if your city provides
  good water, it has to travel a long way through
  old pipes on the way to your house. I use a
  whole-house ten micron sediment filter to filter
  all water going into my house. I change the
  filters every five months, and they are filthy
  and red-colored, because of the rust and dirt in
  the water. When you use a whole-house filter,
  shower heads and faucet screens don't clog.
  Whole-house filters are separate from drinking
  water filters. All reverse osmosis water systems
  require both sediment and carbon pre-filters. All
  filters need to be changed. Plan on changing
  sediment and carbon filters every six months or
  sooner, and reverse osmosis membranes every 2-3
  years. It's best to buy a dissolved solids meter,
  and test your water every month to make sure the
  system is working right. Pure water will measure
  zero parts per million of dissolved solids.

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• Tap water will usually measure at least 200 parts
  per million. Don't get a liquid chemical test
  set, get a 25-50 portable battery-operated
  tester with a LCD readout. These cheap meters
  only show the total dissolved solids in water -
  they do not tell you what is in the water. Water
  filter systems and replacement filters are
  available on eBay and Amazon, and many other
  places - even retail stores. The hardest parts of
  installing water filters are connecting to the
  supply side of the water into your house,
  connecting to a drain line for the waste water,
  and installing a clean water faucet onto your
  sink. The rest of a water filter installation is
  easy. You may need a plumber, or to buy a system
  where they will install it for you. The best
  systems have clear plastic casings, so you can
  see how dirty the filters get. The best systems
  also use standard-sized replacement filters, so
  you don't have to buy tiny, expensive, and
  proprietary filters. Reverse osmosis water
  filters require both a sediment and a carbon
  filter in front of them, to screen out the dirt
  and most of the junk, before the water enters the
  reverse osmosis filter. A sediment filter blocks
  particles larger than five or ten microns. That's
  an improvement over tap water, but it does not
  help the taste, or filter out tiny or dissolved
  nasty stuff in the water.

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• The next step is a carbon block filter. Almost
  all carbon block filters are activated.
  Activation is a process where high pressure steam
  is passed through coal to purify it so that it
  becomes almost pure carbon. Carbon is the fourth
  most common element in the universe, and is
  needed for life. Carbon makes an excellent
  filter, especially when extruded into a solid
  block. Activated carbon block filters strain
  water to trap much more particles than a sediment
  filter can. Activated carbon filters have a
  positive charge to attract chemicals and
  impurities. As the water passes through the
  positively-charged carbon, the negatively-charged
  contaminants are attracted and bound to the
  carbon. Even after sediment, carbon block, and
  reverse osmosis filters, water is still not
  perfect. Chloramines and metal ions, while
  reduced, may still be in the water. For this
  reason, some systems include a final deionizing
  (DI) filter. DI filters are usually cartridges
  filled with plastic-like resin crystals that grab
  the remaining ions in the water. After the DI
  filter, the water is very pure. Reverse osmosis
  water filters generate waste water, and they
  produce only a few drops of clean water per
  minute. For this reason, most reverse osmosis
  systems have a storage tank to accumulate water.

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• Clearly Filtered Water Bottle All reverse osmosis
  systems have a drain line for waste water, that
  is "wasted". The waste water can be used for
  plants, dumped down the drain, etc. Ultra-pure
  water can grow algae very easily. When you take
  chlorine and other nasty stuff out of water, tiny
  microbes and sunlight can combine to make a
  perfect environment to grow harmless algae. The
  quality of water filtered this way is cleaner
  than even distilled water. Some people think pure
  water tastes flat. Some people add a tiny amount
  of sea salt to pure water. For me, no salt is
  needed, pure water tastes like water should. The
  Internet has baseless scare stories about how
  ultra pure water is dangerous. Hogwash. If you
  inject pure water, it may hurt you. Drinking pure
  water does not hurt anyone unless they are
  fasting. The instant that pure water hits your
  mouth it's no longer pure. Nothing is better for
  making coffee, cooking, and ice cubes, than using
  pure water. My observations over 20 years show
  that pets, plants, and people really like it.
  When growing sprouts - with pure water, I found
  they grew twice as fast as with tap water. The
  truth is that ultra-pure water is missing
  minerals. If you get calcium and magnesium in
  your diet, you are more than ok. Ultra pure water
  has no lead, copper, barium, or other garbage.
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