no, my tapwater’s fine
Mine too. A study by our local Consumer Protection showed that must water filters are needing ground for bacteria and often lessen the water quality.
Dude your mom’s fine
no duh, that’s how she remarried rich
Halo 5 whole house filter. it then goes through the filter in my fridge because its colder than the tap (lasts forever now, tho)
Reverse osmosis. I don’t really need it now, but in a previous house I had lab test results showing my water was not safe to drink without it. (well water)
Yes. I have one in my refrigerator that is NSF rated to remove lead. Our tap water is good quality, but our house is 100 years old, so I’m a little bit concerned about lead from the pipe solder.
I got a water test kit for free from Home Depot and sent it in. Never got an answer. This inspires me to try again.
In my country most houses will have one of these:
With the pitcher filters, be sure to change the filter often and scrub the pitcher/tank often. Algae can grow in them, causing all sorts of issues.
I use a culligan inline filter to a separate tap on my sink.
Most of the buildings built here since WWII and into the 70’s have lead pipes. There’s a push to test water quality in homes, and to have the pipes replaced, but in the meantime I use a Brita pitcher with a lead filter.
This is why Obama didn’t really address the flint Michigan water situation. Once they started testing there, other cities would start. Boom, national crisis. ALLEGEDLY the coating that forms on the inside protects against lead poisoning but, who knows. And if chemistry changes drastically, like Flint’s case, it can remove that naturally occurring coating.
At my previous apartment, I had a city employee test my water. They let faucet run for about 10 minutes, then took a sample and got basically immediate results and told me the pipes were leaded. If that’s all it takes to test positive, then the protection can’t be that effective. The tech was in my apartment for less than 15 minutes, and 10 minutes of that was just letting the faucet run.
They tell us that there is no safe amount of lead, and they can detect the presence instantly. That tells me there’s not much protection. Even if it takes 10 minutes to get past that protective layer, after taking a shower your water wouldn’t be safe anymore until there’s another buildup.
Yeah that’s what the gov agency said about it around the time of the Flint water crisis. “Allegedly” is the key word here. Thats when I read a whole bunch of research on it. Could have been complete bullshit, who knows.
You think about that and the actions of the USSR gov, depicted in the HBO series Chernobyl, and you have to wonder if the US response would be much different. Three Mile Island would probably like a word.
There was steel rationing for the war effort during WWII, so they stopped using steel to make pipes. Then it wasn’t until the 70’s that they decided to ban the use of lead pipes in new construction, but never forced anyone to remove their existing pipes.
The ten minutes is to get a lower reading not a higher one. The longer the same water sits in those pipes the more shit it absorbs from the pipes.
I have one of those big Britta tanks. One nice thing is that filters for them often show up very cheap at thrift stores.
