Funny Correction! - Re: OT: Water filters

[Guest guest]

Words are interesting, as is sentence structure. Consider this

statement in my post below:

" Many other stories including how fish and frogs are being born

deformed by simple Google searches. "

I didn't mean to say that Google searches deform anything but

our sanity and sense of safety, certainly not deforming fish and

frogs. What I meant to say is that a Google search will find many

other stories, including how fish and frogs are being born

deformed.

Google is powerful but not that powerful!

Carl Grimes

Healthy Habitats LLC

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> Mayleen,

>

> Don't forget about the prescription drugs in our water supplies,

> both from the drug companies dumping them into their waste

> water and from people using the drugs with traces in their body

> waste which enters the sewer system but aren't removed by the

> treatment plants. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ wp-

> dyn/content/discussion/2008/03/10/DI2008031002217. html Many

> other stories including how fish and frogs are being born

> deformed by simple Google searches.

>

> As for filters removing only some things and different filters

> removing only parts of others, charcoal reduces much of the

> heavy metals such as lead but without a guarantee of removal.

> Charcoal removes low level solvents and some other chemicals

> but not flouride or pharmaceuticals. Any mechanical sieve with a

> pore size at 0.5 microns or smaller will remove bacteria such as

> e-coli. Charcoal will not remove minerals. Distillation will and so

> will reverse osmosis (RO). But RO doesn't remove chemicals,

> including chlorine, so charcoal is needed.

>

> Once the chlorine is removed (by charcoal) then the water is

> again susceptible to bacteria. It needs to be immediately used or

> filtered with a 0.5 micron sieve or subjected to UV light.

>

> Shower filters present a different problem. Charcoal removes the

> chlorine and trihalomethanes but only if the water is cold. So a

> hot shower can release them right into the air where you are

> breathing as you shower. As will running the hot water until it is

> hot and then moderating it with the cold water. Techniques other

> than charcoal claim to have solved this problem but I've seen only

> claims and no independent verification. Perhaps some of you

> have seen that.

>

> As you say, Mayleen, " Now more than ever we must inform

> ourselves. Read from various places and come to our own

> conclusions on what we feel is safer for us. "

>

> Exactly! And that is the power of groups such as this. We share

> information and experiences so others can consider whether or

> not is will work for them.

>

> Carl Grimes

> Healthy Habitats LLC