| With all that's been in the news lately about pharmaceuticals and such being in a good lot of the water we drink, I feel strongly that low doses of such things over a long period of time will have bad effects on people's health. I am on a municipal water source here, but the wells are very close to the Missouri river. The city water here smells like river water and I can't get it past my nose to drink it. I've always considered that river to be a running sewer anyway. Some of those drug molecules are going to be very persistent in the environment. The EPA is just now studying to determine a standard testing method for them. I consider water to be the stuff of life and to be vitally important.
Now, my wife is very sensitive to salt, and this prompted me per a doctor's suggestion several years ago to buy a reverse osmosis rig to remove the residual salt. We were living at a place that attempted to soften very hard water on a municipal scale, and left a residue of salt in the tap water. After a period of several years and a couple of moves, the tank bladder burst, so I put the system in a box, and we started using bottled water to drink. We've been buying the 2 gallon jugs of 'drinking water' that Wal-mart sells, and the cost has been mounting up. After reading Wal-mart;s site, it appears that the water they sell is carbon filtered and ozonated only. Without figuring out where they bottle it at, I'm beginning to not trust it. I suppose I could just haul my own jugs and get water out of the blue machine at the back of the store. That water is passed through reverse osmosis on a larger scale than a home sized unit.
After talking to several water 'experts', it seems that the only treatments for this type of contamination is reverse osmosis or distillation. On that note, I ordered online a bunch of parts to get my reverse osmosis rig going again. I ordered all the filters and membrane for my unit, and a complete system. I'm going to combine my old refurbished system with the new system. The new system I bought is a 5 stage system, with a sediment filter, carbon block filter and GAC filter before the membrane. I'm going to parallel my old refurbished membrane across the new rig's membrane to speed up the production. I am adding a TDS meter connected to the feed water, and the membrane output line, so that I can see when the membranes lose their effectiveness and need changed. I never had this years ago, and I suspect I ran the membrane far too long.
I am considering ordering a small UV light sterilizer to fut in the output line to the faucet. Does anyone have any thoughts about whether this is needed or not? You folks that have naturally clean water sources and can drink them directly should count yourselves as very lucky. |
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