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Why I always recommend reverse osmosis water filters. Failing infrastructure and systemic human error are abundant.
by DantesKite 5y ago
Why I always recommend reverse osmosis water filters. Failing infrastructure and systemic human error are abundant.
- resoluteteeth 5y agoNote that reverse osmosis can't remove some chemicals so it's not necessarily a replacement for the government doing its job.
- DantesKite 5y agoReally? Which chemicals can it not remove? If true, I might be better off getting a distiller then.
- drjasonharrison 5y agohttps://extensionpublications.unl.edu/assets/html/g1490/build/g1490.htm#target2 https://extensionpublications.unl.edu/assets/html/g1490/buil...
- DantesKite 5y agoThat’s interesting. I didn’t realize some solvents got through the RO filter but other filters can manage it better. > AC filters remove chlorine and certain pesticides and organic solvents that the RO membrane is not as effective in removing It seems like as long as you have a complete water filtration system, you’ll cover most bases.
- nate_meurer 5y agoThat's going to get expensive. Also not that distillation is useless for volatile organics, and can actually increase the concentration of lighter chemicals like benzene.
- DantesKite 5y agoThe filters that accompany a reverse osmosis water filter are fairly cheap, but I didn’t know that distillation machines could do that. I’m curious if boiling would break down the volatile organics.
- nate_meurer 5y agoNegative, 100 degrees C is far to low to degrade anything we're talking about here. Benzene, for example, is stable far beyond its autoignition temperature of 500 degrees C.
- technotarek 5y agoReverse osmosis creates something like 4 to 6 parts waste for every one part of filtered water. It doesn’t seem sustainable or responsible on scale. [1] https://inspectapedia.com/septic/RO_Waste_in_Septic_Systems.php https://inspectapedia.com/septic/RO_Waste_in_Septic_Systems....
- DantesKite 5y agoI use a Brondell water filter that solves this problem. It uses less pressure and wastes less water. They have a white paper that goes into more detail about how they accomplished it if you want to Google it. Otherwise I agree with you. RO technology has mostly stagnated.