Our tap water isn’t great. Also want a completely zero-plastic solution. What do you do for your water?

  • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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    9 个月前

    Where I live I’ve got perfectly good tap water, but in general you want a charcoal filter.

    https://a.co/d/0tZHtzQ

    I know some people who have well water and they use something like that.

    Unfortunately I don’t know that you’re going to get effective filters that have no plastic due to it being too cost effective for a disposable component.
    You can’t use paper or cardboard because it’s water permeable, and metal would drive up the price of the filter drastically.

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      9 个月前

      Epic is the only solution that didn’t need a plumber that gets the toxic stuff that’s in my water out, some kind of probably common pesticide or herbicide at like 50x the EPA limit. You can taste and feel the difference. They seem really good. And you never know what’s in that water before hand.

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    9 个月前

    I’ve been looking for exactly the same thing. Sadly most filters I found are made of plastic, which I find outrageous.

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    9 个月前

    Whatever you choose, make sure you test the water with an electronic TDS meter. They are about the price of a coffee and will tell you whether your filter is working properly.

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      9 个月前

      Aren’t those acually useless when trying to determine the quality of water?

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        9 个月前

        It can tell you the purity based on the conductance of the water. It might not catch everything but it’s good to verify the filter is working.

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    9 个月前

    My stainless-steel countertop water distiller. Although the water passes through a short bit of plastic tubing, it is at best lukewarm when it does so. I don’t worry as much about plastic contamination as I would with anything else.

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    9 个月前

    Berkey. It’s not plastic free, but I don’t think a system exists that is. If I’m wrong, I’d love to know.

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    9 个月前

    I just boil it, & let it cool.

    Gets minerals, chlorine, all sorts of stuff out.


    If you’ve got someone excessively-fragile, with some medical-condition that makes 'em that way, use Zero Water filters: they are costly, damn-thorough, and amazing, when you can’t drink anything else.

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      9 个月前

      Boiling water concentrates many of the undesirable elements, actually, it doesn’t just make them magically float away.

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        9 个月前

        Yeah, in order to purify water with boiling it’s necessary to capture and condensed the steam. This distilled water is often considered too clean because it doesn’t have certain minerals our bodies usually get from water.