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| Update: I spent a week in Somersworth, NH, and the tap water quality is horrible, in terms of a TDS reading of 150ppm, compared with nyc 40ppm. A single tea bag filter (working with the pump) was only good for purifying 6 liters of water to 1ppm. After that, the next 6 liters went no lower than 82ppm. I continued filtration with an unused filter. | Update: I spent a week in Somersworth, NH, and the tap water quality is horrible, in terms of a TDS reading of 150ppm, compared with nyc 40ppm. A single tea bag filter (working with the pump) was only good for purifying 6 liters of water to 1ppm. After that, the next 6 liters went no lower than 82ppm. I continued filtration with an unused filter. | ||
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| + | Update: If you want to remove flouride, a TDS meter will not be that helpful, because flouride is added to water at 1ppm. The TDS meter does not have enough resolution to estimate the percentage of flouride that is removed by your filter. | ||
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| - | Should drinking water be at a certain pH? Well, I'm taking the pH out and making it completely neutral with the ion exchange resins. If it's supposed to be basic, then I've got that covered because I brush my teeth with baking soda. The food you eat will have so much more ions in it than the trace amounts in water. Does it matter that it goes in with the wrong pH, if it quickly gets mixed up with the food in your belly? If you know better, let me know, but I'm not going to look into it. | + | Should drinking water be at a certain pH? Well, I'm taking the pH out and making it completely neutral with the ion exchange resins. There is some marketing fad to sell alkaline water. If it's supposed to be basic, then I've got that covered because I brush my teeth with baking soda. The food you eat will have so much more ions in it than the trace amounts in water. Does it matter that it goes in with the wrong pH, if it quickly gets mixed up with the food in your belly? |
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| + | Related article: [[https://www.healthline.com/health/food-nutrition/alkaline-water-benefits-risks |Alkaline Water: Benefits and Risks, healthline.com 20190530]] | ||
health/water-filtration.txt · Last modified: 2021/11/16 04:03 by marcos
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