Anon, how do you get your drinking water?!
Do you filter city water?!
Have your own well?!
Only drink bottled?!
Please reply with your current paradigm 🫂🙏💦
Discussion
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City water but filtered. Nothing super fancy though. Although I do occasionally go out to my friend's house and steal their nice well water.
Berkey water filter for tap water.
Works very well.
well well well.
Brita filter on city water
I have an Aquatru reverse osmosis filter.
off-grid, pumped 2000 gallon water tank from well
you gotta pump those numbers up!
I've got 30k gallon storage
but its also gravity fed so easier on the solar
I'd hate to have to pump although i do have a small electric pump that I use to pump pond water for irrigation
Reverse osmosis is the way.
But that isn't always the best option.
i've been learning how to do it old-school way
in actual fact, the two things that make water drinkable are:
1. fine filtration, but literally denim jeans are sufficient
2. active carbon - easiest is to just use freshly made charcoal from a fire, helps to crush it up but not essential
second thing i would mention is that you can achieve extremely fine filtration with common kitchen towel or unscented toilet paper, the TP is the absolute best but the kitchen towel is pretty good, it is enough to stop the carbon dust from grinding up your charcoal
if you then take your water, and throw that carbon in, idk how much is best, i suppose if the water is mostly clear, probably about a teaspoon of fine powder per litre, more carbon fol less fine and more water
mix it up nice, and then run it through a funnel with your TP filter and done
it is slow, but it comes out clear and tastes like you got it by opening your mouth and sticking out your tongue as it fell from the sky
Denim jeans?
yes i saw it demonstrated years ago on some documentary
denim jeans and charcoal = clean water
forget boiling
boiling can actually make it more toxic if there is dangerous algae in the water
here you are, from none other than the hawaian government:
https://www.mauicounty.gov/FAQ.aspx?QID=1004
chloramines
that was teh thing i was thinking of
this is not relevant to standard water supplies but the point is that chlorination doesn't fix this problem, that's partly why town water supplies have to have big fat sand filtration rigs
Bottled and mountain spring water
Filtered city water…Essentia sometimes
Filtered city 💦💦💦
We have city water. Whole home filter for regular stuff and drinking water comes from fridge with its own filter. Also we drink a lot of hot water so our filtered water goes into a separate water boiler/dispenser that maintains high temps. We cycle through the resevoir every couple days so not concerned about bacteria buildup.
i try to catch my water from the roof and i filter it of particles and i'm adopting a regime of giving it a pass with freshly roasted charcoal from my fire pit outside
otherwise, yeah, generally i drink that shit out of the plastic... the stuff here though, is from here, it's basically the tap water without the chlorine and fluoride
I have a spring at the top of my 40
Well water with a softener system and drinking water filter to remove arsenic most specifically... 😳
I will need to address that soon.
WELL
Currently, well water for us, rain water catchment for livestock
We have several springs that we could develop at some point
Filtered city water
City water via a water filter cartridge under the bench just for our drinking water. But they've just been made to a start adding fluoride so I'm considering options to deal with that but some of the things that remove fluoride sound like they might introduce other concerns eg aluminum, so not yet decided.
Rain water
For drinking, I run it through a ceramic filter filled with charcoal.
400+ft well water, put through a reverse osmosis filter to remove some trace plastic and urnanium that's in the aquifer.
Berkey for city water
We harvest *all* our water from rain and snow that accumulates on our roof. Each inch of precipitation = 1800 gallons. We have a total or 4800 gallons storage in buried cisterns for the household. Currently we're at 1/4 capacity (1200 gallons).
The water from the cisterns goes through a series of filters, each finer.
well water through a Berkey
Roadside piped spring. Putting a well in this spring (casing already in)
Bottled water only... for now.
Municipal water supply but reverse osmosis system. For special applications additionally distilled.
Thinking about installing a ro system for the entire house water supply, because the body absorbs through the skin as well.
Out of a well my grandpa dug
From a public well about 30 minute drive from where I live.
My well needs a pump. I'm filtering and boiling city water. I want to buy a Berkey.
Well
I filter twice for drinking water. The second one for fluoride. But this removes all minerals.
I do wish they stop fluoride.
Please respond if you can!
It's important 🙏💦🤝
All of our drinking water is taken from the tap and promptly distilled.
filter tap water
after seeing how my houseplants thrive with it, analemma water wand treatment to whatever clean water I have access
Municipal water filter all drinking and cooking water with a Berkey. Looking for options to do whole house filter. NOTE: my parents got a notice from Perdue Chickens (home based in Salisbury, MD) that their well water may not be safe. After they water tested, they gave my parents and neighbors a full house water filtration system. So, think about it, my parents have lived there for over 60 years drinking that water. Perdue has been there just as long. Just because you have well water doesnt mean you are safe.
Community well for our neighborhood serving about 45 houses. No floride, minimal choloramines. Obviously I add those back in at double the concentrations recommended by the government. Best teeth on the block.
I'm a water nerd.
For the most part, flourode, chlorine and TTHMs are the main concern for muni water.
These can be mitigated simply by putting drinking water in a pitcher. These volatiles will evaporate out in an hour or less.
For cooking, nearly any in-line activated charcoal filter will work but REPLACE every 3 mos.
RO is overkill unless you have really bad minerals or brackish water.
Berkeys are... Expensive. But good. Kangen is super expensive but ok- they filter out nutrients... Then replace them with their own nutrients$ for taste.
Filter city
Rain water. Tank. Filtered
Same
currently experimenting with mineralization to raise pH and mineral content
German tap water after Brita filter here. Otherwise boiled tap water.
Only buying bottled water (in glass) occasionally
City water.
High taxes + rainy place = good quality city water.
filtered well
Bottled mineral water is best.
Silicic acid in mineral water combines with aluminium in the body and it is excreted by the kidneys .
Well with whole house charcoal filter for general use. Berkey for drinking water. R/O for the aquaponics.
Zero water filter pitcher. Highest filtering quality to price ratio imho.
Sand point. Best tasting water out of the tap
Well
city water into my epic water filter. I'd like a glass one at some point
Thank you all for the responses you guys are the real fucking deal - writeup coming soon 🤝🤙
An artesian spring with water tested to be 6000 years old coming from 8000 feet below the earths surface tested to be some of the purest water on the planet. I can fill up a 5 gallon jug for $2.50 USD
Well water here
well water
Watermill
Rain barrels and a healthy distrust of the government. Keeps you hydrated and free.
With added unrefined sea salt.
Investing in a rev osmotic system here shortly.
Bitcoin provides!
we have 2 springs on our property and our taps feed right into them. 🇨🇷
City and rain. Fluoride free bc my island is based (it's rly bc it's broke).