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
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.
RO filter under the sink with a post carbon filter. It also connects to the fridge/ice maker.
I can taste when the city treats the water just from rinsing after brushing my teeth. The water tastes “salty” to me. I also was disgusted after the ice cubes melted in my drinks, leaving a sludge in the bottom.
In my country most houses will have one of these:
Ã. Brazil or Portugal?
The faucet filter looks really easy to plumb & change, do they work well?
Brazil.
I don’t have the faucet filter, but I never heard any complaints about them. I’d guess that if your water has good pressure you won’t have any problems with them.
if you don’t have enough pressure the water comes out too slow
I’ve been using a PUR brand water filter that attaches to the faucet for quite awhile now. If you have an older one I recommend getting a newer one. It has a little LED that flashes green and it will turn red when the water filter goes bad. Although I’m pretty sure it’s just a timer, it doesn’t actually detect the filter has gone bad I don’t think.
Also my area has a pipe issue and there may be Lead in the water… I’m hoping the filter helps but idk…
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 use a Berkey for drinking water.
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)
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.
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.
