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- DFordExplorerAny charcoal filter can make the water taste great. There's a lot of bad stuff that can get through a Brita. If you can find the specs on their cartridges compare them with one that can remove cryptosporidium from your water. The best cartridges available filter down to 0.5 micron. If all you're after is good tasting water, Brita will do fine but the water coming from it may not be safe to drink unless it's from a safe source.
A Guide to Water Filters
https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/crypto/gen_info/filters.html
What is the pore size of a BRITA filter?
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-pore-size-of-a-BRITA-filter - vjstangeloExplorerWe have a Brita filter installed on the kitchen faucet. It has a small quarter turn valve to divert to either the filter or bypass it. The filtered water tastes no worse than bottled water. Very convenient.
- Homeless_by_ChoExplorer
DFord wrote:
I can't understand if you guys are bragging or complaining about the mistakes and hardships you had to endure as a child.
Neither, just reminiscing. We never got sick but a couple of times the water from the black rubber hose all of sudden got real hot because a section of it was in the sun. Now that I think of it, maybe I am bragging a little about the very GOOD times and wonderful memories that I have as a kid.
LeRoy - HorsedocExplorer IIoff subject here, but a lot of boys raised in the mountains of N Georgia drank from a mason jar also. The contents pretty much sterilized the jar. :)
- MEXICOWANDERERExplorerDistillation and 03 are the two sterilization methods I trust. The nastiest amoeba and protozoa have a 1000x overkill rating when the water is saturated with 03 for 15 minutes. When on the road and deprived of sterilized water, which is absolutely different from purified water, I use a pressure cooker. 20 minutes of the valve rocking back and forth. The kill rate is ridiculous.
Does not neuter mercury or arsenic. :( very serious hazard in mercury or arsenic areas. My ocean going Village RO removes metals but I trust sterilization to 03 - wopachopExplorer
Bill.Satellite wrote:
Sure if the campground is in the same city supplied by the same facility.
City water in your home is exactly the same as the city water you are getting at a campground. - Bill_SatelliteExplorer III have been drinking the water coming out of my fresh water tank for 18 years. We have a sediment filter and a charcoal filter (no slime, no poison) and a 165 gallon fresh water tank. Oddly enough, I am still alive! It must be a miracle.
I do have a GE fridge filter on the ice maker/water through the door setup which gives really good drinking water but everything else (shower, food prep, dish washing, whatever) comes directly from the fresh water holding tank. City water is your home is exactly the same as the city water you are getting at a campground. Do you not drink the water in your house? - wopachopExplorer
agesilaus wrote:
We have a tester and a 5 stage filter under the sink.
The ones from Walmart or where ever. These consumer grade filters don't really give you enough info to make an informed choice anyway. I was a professional (lab) consumer of water filters for many years.
Might get a blue camco and test then difference between tap water, camco, fancy 5 stage.
I dont drink the water in the trailer. Want to filter just for shower and cleaning dishes. - MarcelaExplorer
Marcela wrote:
Homeless by Choice wrote:
wanderingaimlessly wrote:
JWP127 wrote:
I drank from a water hose as a kid!
Ans It wasn't a white one neither.
And it was turned off and thrown on ground when we were finished. If I was down by the barn, I drank from the water spigot using a chipped porcelain cup that hung on a nail on the fence.
LeRoy
You were privileged, we drank out of a well from a mason jar that was turned over on the fence post. - MarcelaExplorer
Homeless by Choice wrote:
wanderingaimlessly wrote:
JWP127 wrote:
I drank from a water hose as a kid!
Ans It wasn't a white one neither.
And it was turned off and thrown on ground when we were finished. If I was down by the barn, I drank from the water spigot using a chipped porcelain cup that hung on a nail on the fence.
LeRoy
You were privileged, we drank out of a mason jar that was turned over on the fence post.
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