I just want to buy a frickin' replacment filter!

[Vraille Darkfang]

When it comes down to it Brita and other such filter systems does the job just fine as far as your body is concerned. Having your water filtered as well as a reverse osmosis system does is total overkill. Of no importance to your health whatsoever. Just marketing baloney.

No one should allow themselves to be talked into buying these super expensive filter systems. Your body doesn't care. Really. In fact, some of the trace minerals and such may be needed by your body, so removing it may actually be bad.

I is not the Trace Minerals we are worried about.

It is the yearly Water Quality Report we get from the City (actually a small town where the Missouri River is the Main Source of Potable water.

Specifically it it is all the 8-15 Syllables Chemicals on that list.

More specifically it is the "The Allowed limit is 2 Parts per Million, we had 4,000 PPM, please be assured we are taking steps to correct this....."

Here is what it boils down too.

In order to make sure the Bugs in the water don't kill/sicken us, the City dumps way more Chemicals that what it is supposed too. They have an old system & can't afford to upgrade. In fact, the Governement has given them 6 more years to make improvements.

Our water is got some serious issues. We got the Reverse Osmosis System as Overkill. If we had it to do again, we'd go to a Big Chain & see what they had (Availability of Parts).

If we weren't going to be seriously shopping for a new house this spring, I'd rip that one out & put in a new one.

But, in the end...

It is a minor annoyance, things could be a lot worse.

 

[Treebore]

I is not the Trace Minerals we are worried about.

It is the yearly Water Quality Report we get from the City (actually a small town where the Missouri River is the Main Source of Potable water.

Specifically it it is all the 8-15 Syllables Chemicals on that list.

More specifically it is the "The Allowed limit is 2 Parts per Million, we had 4,000 PPM, please be assured we are taking steps to correct this....."

Here is what it boils down too.

In order to make sure the Bugs in the water don't kill/sicken us, the City dumps way more Chemicals that what it is supposed too. They have an old system & can't afford to upgrade. In fact, the Governement has given them 6 more years to make improvements.

Our water is got some serious issues. We got the Reverse Osmosis System as Overkill. If we had it to do again, we'd go to a Big Chain & see what they had (Availability of Parts).

If we weren't going to be seriously shopping for a new house this spring, I'd rip that one out & put in a new one.

But, in the end...

It is a minor annoyance, things could be a lot worse.

Did you try out Brita (or comparable) filters? They were very effective on the California water, and it has very similiar sounding issues, for different reasons. Brita has filters that also removes chemicals, not just particulates, and with some shopping around, especially on line, you can find pretty low prices, or at least I could when we lived there 3 years ago.

Granted it doesn't help your current situation, but there are effective, and much cheaper, ways to deal with it in your future home.