Using tap water, using bottled water for cooking & such
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Using tap water w/ gravity filter for bog garden
Comments (2)Chris, You should have no problem setting up a reverse/osmosis system. It is easy and well within your needs. The only considerations you need to be concerned about it the life of the filteration membrane and that of the filter cartridges too. I use a SpectraPure system that I put in myself. I do not have it dripping into a bog but into a rain barrel where I can drain it off into jugs for hand watering. You do not even need to do that. All you would need to do is to have the drip line that the r/o water comes out of feed into a hose, even a garden hose, and arrange the flow to conform to gravity feeding of the bog. Just run the system 24/7. To use gravity feed you only have to hang the system up above the faucet that feeds water into the r/o system. So all you would have to deal with is the gradient from the outtake of the system to the intake of your bog feedline. I am including the link for SpectraPure. I'm not connected to it in anyway apart from being a very satisfied customer. Here is a link that might be useful: SpecturaPure...See MoreTap water, bottled water, rain water
Comments (20)It is so nice and useful to read all the information and experiences of our forum members here. I never thought seriously about the water I use for germination, normally I used tap water. Once I used distilled water for spray the plants because the tap water spray make the leaves so ugly. When the water dried all the leaves have whitish residues from the water probably the lime/chalk. When the tap water is dried always chalk/lime built up on the surface. So we have vinegar plus solution for regular cleaning. One of my friends apartment's tap water is pretty bad when he boils it the water lost its color, it looks like water with milk. I hate this chalky water. However, I do not know this hard water is good for the plant. Caelian...See MoreBottled water: more healthful than water from the tap???
Comments (29)Ahem... OJ, my friend, your hypocrisy is showing! ;) As I understand it, you're a "bottle babe" too, right? But you're a closet bottle babe. You drink bottled water as I recall. In fact you drink nothing but if memory serves correctly. And you're a water bottler too so all these companies and people you go at about bottling water is done by that guy in the mirror? Or have things changed? :D I make no apology that I drink spring water. Can you carry 20-30 cups of tap water in your vehicle so you have it with you and available when needed and wanted? I think not. The cost? 7¢ to 9¢ a bottle is what I pay. Certainly not going to break me. And I'm not driving back and forth every day or two to get this water, burning gas, oil, tires and wear on the vehicle. :D (OK, end of the jabs!). Now to the "clubs". :D I know it's become fashionable to vilify water. Complain about "all those bottles in the landfills!!!!" LOL People who do this, I have to wonder what's in your water? Interesting how pop, tea, juice, milk and other containers can go in the same landfills and no problem with that right? How about all those foam coffee cups and plastic dome lids on the coffee cups that people insist on buying at Starbucks, Tim Horton's, Caribou and the like? Where's the screaming about that? Dead silence. Perhaps that foam and plastic doesn't use petroleum products? Or maybe they're 100% recycled? Or is there another reason? What about the pod coffee drinkers? Nobody's bothered by that plastic going into the landfills. Those little plastic cups going into the garbage don't seem to offend people? Why? OH, it's not water! I forgot that water is the target. I also have to ask, where's the same (manufactured) outrage over all the diapers that go into those landfills some are so concerned about? When's the last time anyone has recycled a diaper? 'Splain that one to me Lucy! Shall we talk about all the other stuff that goes in those beloved landfills? (Today they're "landfills". I remember when they were called "dumps"!) Light bulbs, batteries, packaging, greeting cards, expired gift cards, rotisserie chicken containers, fem hygiene products, toilet paper and paper towel rolls and wrappers, and so on and so on and so on. I realize that water has become a fashionable villain these days. Must be people having stock in Coke, Pepsi, Huggies and Starbucks. I used to have great water here. I don't anymore. And I am not going to have a cow over spending a few dollars a month to buy spring water, have it handy and not buy soft drinks, coffee and the like while out and about. So go ahead and yell and scream about people like me who drink water rather than sugar-laden or aspartame-filled drinks. I recycle my bottles. Coffee drinkers don't recycle many of their cups, lids, stir sticks, creamer/sugar containers, lids, etc, I'm sure. Every time there's a national disaster what's the first thing they ask for? Coffee pods? Diapers? Soft drinks? Nope. WATER! Perhaps we should never again send water to these people. Or the places with contaminated wells. They shouldn't drink bottled water. If tap water isn't good enough for you then you should go without? Hey, now THERE'S a possibility. I'm going to go have a bottle of water right now. Might have a bottle of juice to go with it. At least juice doesn't seem to be a villain like poor innocent water is! Proud to be a water drinker. Just noticed how old this thread is, but it was a good response that didn't deserve to be deleted. And after thinking about it, compared to many of the "current topics" being posted, it's more interesting, more thought provoking and far better than many of those topics. Moving on! :)...See Moreundersink water filter that uses existing tap - "Full Flow"
Comments (6)Depends on what you want filtered out of your water. Is your water contaminated? heavily chlorinated? High in iron or sulfur? Or do you simply want pure-tasting water? My husband put in a monster whole-house filtration system, and it was very costly, but we had coliform in the water as well as being exceptionally hard and extremely high in iron. Linked is another whole house system, but not as extravagant or inclusive, but if you don't need all that other kind of filtration it might serve you well and NEVER need filter changes for the 500,000+ gallon life of the system. We talked at length about this with other people, and it is an excellent system if you don't have contaminants or real high iron. Here is a link that might be useful: whole-house water filtration...See Moresushipup1
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