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After some googling, I concluded that filters in good-tap-water neighborhoods do more harm than good -- they filter out nutrients that we do need from water.
by deepsun 8y ago
After some googling, I concluded that filters in good-tap-water neighborhoods do more harm than good -- they filter out nutrients that we do need from water.
- taneq 8y agoWhat nutrients does tap water have in it? Fluoride?
- CodeWriter23 8y agoVarious minerals and electrolytes such as calcium, magnesium, potassium. I don’t count fluoride as a nutrient.
- coldtea 8y agoAll kinds of minerals and such. In fact totally clean water, without them, is harmful and poisonous: "Drinking absolutely pure water can kill you. All the water we normally drink – from taps, from bottles, from the garden hose – contains impurities which affect a property of water called tonicity. This is the ability of a solution to draw or repel water from ajacent solutions when separated by a membrane. Solutions that are hypertonic gain water, while hypotonic solutions lose water. Drinking water, which we usually think of as pure, really contains a whole mess of salts and sugars which make it slightly hypertonic. They also give water its taste. The cytoplasm in the cells of your body also have a tonicity. So, when they are exposed to hypertonic solutions, the cells themselves lose water and shrivel up. When they are in hypotonic solutions, they gain water, swelling up and bursting like a balloon. Absolutely pure water -with no impurities at all – is the most hypotonic solution. So, if you drink enough of it, your cells will start absorbing water. This disturbs the balance of electrolytes (electrically conductive ions) in your body. This is most seriously a problem in the brain, where water poisoning can lead to brain damage, coma and even death."
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- berlinstartup 8y agoEither you don't know what the word nutrient means, or you've been bamboozled--water does not/should not contain nutrients.