Since my family sold our home almost 3 years ago I’ve been drinking Shoprite supermarket brand bottled “spring” or sometimes “purified” water, here on Long Island. Recently, I’ve seen white stuff floating in almost every bottle of the spring water, presumably the plastic said to be present in water practically everywhere.
Some months ago a young 20 something was filling his Brita water pitcher in the company cafeteria. So I thought about the Brita and competing Pur pitcher type filter systems and checked the reviews at Consumer Reports, BB & Beyond and Amazon. While users seem to agree that these pitcher filters are good for making the water more tasteless, they don’t all filter out lead and other contaminants and/or bacteria and other pathogens.
How serious are these filtration deficiencies for Long Island NY water districts like Syosset Woodbury?
At Consumer Reports I also learned of the Reverse Osmosis systems.
https://www.consumerreports.org/pro...0/reverse-osmosis-water-filters-200313/view2/
vs. the Brita and Pur pitcher types
https://www.consumerreports.org/products/water-filters-32980/water-filter-pitchers-200280/view2/
Majority opinion on drinking distilled seems to be that it’s not harmful if your diet has adequate calcium and magnesium, but that it will virtually guarantee poor tasting coffee.
But now I see that even the more expensive RO systems don’t filter out bacteria
https://waterpurificationguide.com/brands-of-bottled-water-that-are-reverse-osmosis/
This Indian-based company is the only one that makes a system that does it all. https://www.aosmithindia.com/blog?field_listing_category_tid=427
Again, how serious are these filtration deficiencies for Long Island NY water districts like Syosset Woodbury?
Who else makes these RO-UV-VT filter systems? And how cost effective are they vs. Brita vs. Par vs. Shoprite or Brand XYZ spring or “purified” water?
All things considered, what’s best?
Some months ago a young 20 something was filling his Brita water pitcher in the company cafeteria. So I thought about the Brita and competing Pur pitcher type filter systems and checked the reviews at Consumer Reports, BB & Beyond and Amazon. While users seem to agree that these pitcher filters are good for making the water more tasteless, they don’t all filter out lead and other contaminants and/or bacteria and other pathogens.
How serious are these filtration deficiencies for Long Island NY water districts like Syosset Woodbury?
At Consumer Reports I also learned of the Reverse Osmosis systems.
https://www.consumerreports.org/pro...0/reverse-osmosis-water-filters-200313/view2/
vs. the Brita and Pur pitcher types
https://www.consumerreports.org/products/water-filters-32980/water-filter-pitchers-200280/view2/
Majority opinion on drinking distilled seems to be that it’s not harmful if your diet has adequate calcium and magnesium, but that it will virtually guarantee poor tasting coffee.
But now I see that even the more expensive RO systems don’t filter out bacteria
https://waterpurificationguide.com/brands-of-bottled-water-that-are-reverse-osmosis/
This Indian-based company is the only one that makes a system that does it all. https://www.aosmithindia.com/blog?field_listing_category_tid=427
Again, how serious are these filtration deficiencies for Long Island NY water districts like Syosset Woodbury?
Who else makes these RO-UV-VT filter systems? And how cost effective are they vs. Brita vs. Par vs. Shoprite or Brand XYZ spring or “purified” water?
All things considered, what’s best?