Best Water Filter

Discussion in 'All Discussions' started by seldom seen, Mar 3, 2016.

  1. kidde rocque

    kidde rocque Well-Known Member

    Mar 6, 2016
    Wayyyy too much hand wringing over water.

    FYI, nobody in the U.S. is sick or dying because of the water supply, with the possible exception of Flint, Michigan.

    Please let this stupid fvcking thread die
     
  2. kidde rocque

    kidde rocque Well-Known Member

    Mar 6, 2016
    25 pages of vitriol and pooswah-ism over farking water filters ffs

    I blame this on Sheldonne, he started this ish
     

  3. jaklsurfs

    jaklsurfs Well-Known Member

    501
    Apr 26, 2015
    Well sometimes its not the city water it can be the condition of the interior of the water pipes of your house .
     
  4. jaklsurfs

    jaklsurfs Well-Known Member

    501
    Apr 26, 2015
    O **** i just added more crap to the detritus and vitriol of the pooswah
     
  5. seldom seen

    seldom seen Well-Known Member

    Aug 21, 2012
    If you will it, Dude, it is no dream.

    Indeed, than can be a factor.
     
  6. nynj

    nynj Well-Known Member

    Jul 27, 2012
    So we really need to start a "best water pipes for you house" thread
     
  7. seldom seen

    seldom seen Well-Known Member

    Aug 21, 2012
    Fkn A we do.


    #9/12
     
  8. Barry Cuda

    Barry Cuda Guest

    How about bagpipes instead?? They will annoy the dead.......
     
  9. sheetglass

    sheetglass Well-Known Member

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    May 12, 2008
    Well damn, so this is on the news here in Wilmington: http://www.starnewsonline.com/news/20170608/water-faqs-what-we-know-and-what-we-dont-know.

    I need swellinfo's crack team of advise-ers. Should I pony up and buy a RO system (if so which fvcking one)? One of those Berkey tank things? Or just say fvck it and succumb to the "kidney cancer, testicular cancer, ulcerative colitis, thyroid disease, hypercholesterolemia (high cholesterol), and pregnancy-induced hypertension (heh)" risks.
     
  10. archy 2.0

    archy 2.0 Well-Known Member

    Jul 5, 2012
    Berkey
    ProPur
    Elexa
    All good.
    Just make sure to buy the king size and the upgraded filters.
    Pro Pur makes a decent shower head filter too.
     
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  11. archy 2.0

    archy 2.0 Well-Known Member

    Jul 5, 2012
    Years and years of low level intake of toxins can emerge as cancer or some other horrendous ailment much later in life.
    Problem is that the cause of disease x is hard to put the finger on.
    50 years ago a doctor would fly across the nation to treat some rare child cancer.
    Now child cancers are at an alarming rate.
    Planet has turned into a raging cesspool and IMHO it's best to err on the side of caution in situations that are in your control such as drinking water and clean food.
     
  12. nynj

    nynj Well-Known Member

    Jul 27, 2012
    Years ago most illnesses went undiagnosed. Now they have far better methods of detecting.
     
  13. sheetglass

    sheetglass Well-Known Member

    186
    May 12, 2008
    Thanks for the recommendations. Shoot, showers too? Maybe I'll just stop using water altogether and take Barry's advice and go kill myself. Is it worth it to just put something on the water intake on my house?
     
  14. mrcoop

    mrcoop Well-Known Member

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    Jun 22, 2010
    Brita IMO helps, but not a lot...get yourself a $20 tds meter to see how pure your water. I now run a $200 ro unit under sink...darn near perfect water from my well...tds around 3. My well was 200...my fridge filter got me down to 100...ro in the low single digits.
     
  15. red dog

    red dog Well-Known Member

    Mar 6, 2015
    Vitamin water 0 only!
     
  16. archy 2.0

    archy 2.0 Well-Known Member

    Jul 5, 2012
    That is debatable, and not all experts agree.
    Err on the side of caution.
     
  17. archy 2.0

    archy 2.0 Well-Known Member

    Jul 5, 2012
    I don't see why not.
    A decent intake would prob run a grand, and filter replacement annually aprox $300-$500.
    Your skin's the largest organ and that hot shower really soaks in all them chems.
    Plus the water you cook with etc.
    In the long run it's still cheaper than buying bottled water from god knows where in chemical laden plastic bottles.
     
  18. Barry Cuda

    Barry Cuda Guest


    NYNJ is 100% correct on that diagnosis point. The level of diagnostic accuracy, the frequency of testing, much better technology has really brought out higher rates. The prevalence rates are being blown away by incidence rates due to better technology and diagnosis. Prevalence rates are the "natural occurring" rates of a disease; incidence rates are the rates of diagnostic finds. If incidence rates are higher than stated prevalence, you have an "outbreak" or better technology correcting understated prevalence rates.
     
  19. CBSCREWBY

    CBSCREWBY Well-Known Member

    Feb 21, 2012
    I'm just going to continue to drink the water, shower with it, in the hope I get some super powers... Man, our water does really suck.
     
  20. archy 2.0

    archy 2.0 Well-Known Member

    Jul 5, 2012
    So let me get this straight. All dem chemicals they seyz iz carcinogenik don't cause the cancers? Kool.