Fluoride was the main reason why my family started drinking exclusively RO water over 10 years ago. You don’t realize the difference until you try the city water again after a while and notice the smell of chlorine. The city water quality report also shows arsenic and a bunch of other chemicals, but perhaps the most concerning is the pharmaceutical drugs that pass through in wastewater or just get dumped down the toilet. None of that is tested or filtered at the water treatment facility, nor is any of it in the report.
Every municipal water treatment facility in the country puts chlorine in the water to sanitize it. Technically potable in that you won’t get a parasite from it, but the chemicals in it could definitely disqualify it in some people’s opinion.
Fluoride was the main reason why my family started drinking exclusively RO water over 10 years ago. You don’t realize the difference until you try the city water again after a while and notice the smell of chlorine. The city water quality report also shows arsenic and a bunch of other chemicals, but perhaps the most concerning is the pharmaceutical drugs that pass through in wastewater or just get dumped down the toilet. None of that is tested or filtered at the water treatment facility, nor is any of it in the report.
Absolutely. Spot. F'n. On.
The acceptable amount of arsenic and these toxic elements is 0.
Same. Ro water tastes awesome. Like a beautiful glass of nothing.
when you say city water, are you talking tap water run through an external filter? like a pitcher or one attached to the faucet?
Tap water from the faucet with no filter. A simpler carbon filter will remove that chlorine, but not much else.
where is that even acceptable? tap water is not potable water anywhere if I'm not mistaken.
Every municipal water treatment facility in the country puts chlorine in the water to sanitize it. Technically potable in that you won’t get a parasite from it, but the chemicals in it could definitely disqualify it in some people’s opinion.
RO water?
Reverse Osmosis