I have a Brita water pitcher and black flecks always go through the filter in the filtered water. I’ve heard its the carbon? but still I would really like it to not be there. Does anyone know how to get rid of them?

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* Pure Filtered Water
* Grade B Organic Maple Syrup, Formaldehyde free
* Organic Cayenne Pepper
* Organic Lemons
* Sea salt – Unrefined, (Not iodized) or Epsom Salt

Optional Ingredients:

* Laxative tea
* Natural Herbal Tea (decaffeinated)

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I have recently switched over to using Soy Butter spread and it really tastes great. Since it is soy I am not as self conscious about really spreading it on toast and using it for other cooking needs but I was wondering if it is bad for you in any way? There are a few of them out there but I am trying the Soy Garden which has no trans fat, non-dairy, no preservatives, and gluten free.

Here are the exact ingredients:
"NON-GMO INGREDIENTS: Expeller-Pressed Natural Oil Blend (soy, palm fruit and olive), filtered water, pure salt, natural flavor (derived from corn, no MSG, no alcohol, no gluten), crushed soybeans (defatted), soy lecithin, lactic acid (non-dairy, derived from sugar beets), natural annatto color."

To me that seems pretty healthy, but I was wondering if someone knows something I don’t about those ingredients.

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What kind of water?
Boiled and cooled
spring
Fossit
that nursery water?
I asked a question similar but am still wondering.

I’ve been using filtered water ( pure water filter ) but was wondering if I can just switch to tap?
My daughter is 9.5 months old.

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I was reading today about water fluoridation, and its "effects". These include reduced(or, depending on who you ask, increased) aggression.

This interested me- not because I believe it, but because this has a hypothesis(water fluoridation affects you) with a predicted outcome(reduced/increased agression).

The first commandment of science is "Thou shalt test thy beliefs by experiment", and this seems the perfect opportunity.

What you’d need to do is get, say, three groups, relatively large. They’d have to stay at some kind of facility for the test- that is to say, they would only drink water specialy provided. One group would get standard fluorine levels, one would get a high(within safety limits) dose, and one would get pure, filtered water(as a control).

Have them play some specially designed or chosen violent video game- preferably one with a range of more aggressive or less aggressive tactics. A statistical increase in aggression in the fluorine groups would be… interesting.
I imagine you’d have to take measures to prevent the placebo effect(people think the drug will make them more aggressive, so they behave more aggressively).

Also, I imagine something like this taking place over a couple of weeks, so it might be a bit expensive. I know this is a pretty common issue, though, so some kind of confederation, between people who want to prove the effects of fluoridation and people who want to prove it’s harmless, might be able to scrape the money together.

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I went shopping with some friends.

They bought bottled water and I joked with them about how they don’t drink from the tap.

They basically said the bottled water is cleaner and different from the tap…so they drink from the bottled water most of the time and the sink every once in a while. (They use Brita with the sink, though).

So then I try to convince them that the Brita filtered water is the same crap as what’s in the bottles, and they believe me.

SO, I offer the idea of getting a stainless steel water bottle so they can take it to class with them (they got bottles so they can carry it to school) and I was like, "the bottle will last 1000 years so you never have to waste your money on the bottled water."

Know what they said? "Oh, but I don’t need something to last that long."

Look, the only two companies that have pure filtered water are Dasani and Aquafina. Dasani is reverse osmosis filtered water with minerals added, but Aquafina is reverse osmosis filtered with nothing added. (They didn’t understand reverse osmosis or the idea of added minerals).

Is it wrong for me to be bothered that the general population thinks just like they do and is wasting oil for these dang bottles of water?

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I’m using a water filter for drinking which consist of a four stage catridge: activated carbon, silica sand, zeolite and mineral sand. Lately, I notice very small particles sentiment at the bottom of the mineral pot where the filtered water is stored. I believe this is from the filter catridge as there are large pores where the particles may pass through. Does this render the water unsafe for consumption?

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Tap water in AZ is nasty, and thats what they used a few years ago. Wouldn’t Jesus want you to use pure filtered water, only filtered through the finest materials?

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My water comes from a well in my yard and has a typical TDS value of 100-140 range.
I have installed a 2 stage micro biological filter that has a 5 micron particle and carbon filters.
After the installation I am getting a higher TDS reading from my filtered water (180-190) which is appox. 40 points higher than the untreated well water from tap.
There is no measuring error since I use the same TDS meter for measuring both sources.
Filter instructions states that I should run 7 gallons of water through the filter before it performs proper filtration.
While the initial numbers I read of 600-500 came down to 180-190 it is still higher than unfiltered water.
Does this make sense? How long does a basic water filter takes before it reaches to full performance?

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My husband would prefer NOT to have a separate faucet line for filtered water, so we would need an in-line drinking water filter for our kitchen sink. He would also prefer NOT to have to depend on a plumber to install it.

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