Mysterious substance in potable water
I had let my bathtub cold water run too long in my Mini Lite, ran out of water, and lost the prime on my pump. This happened on the last day driving back from my most recent trip, so I just stored the...
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Rmack1 wrote:Francesca Knowles wrote:
Chlorine doesn't precipitate and solidify. The filter probably "gets rid of" chlorine by way of its strength being expended on the organics it encounters that are trapped in the filter itself.
I didn't know my filter had organics. Would this be the first thing to deplete and fail, requiring a replacement filter, before the membranes holding everything together require it?
Water filters themselves don't contain the organics that chlorine will act on- but they're well known reservoirs for growth of bacteria introduced into them via the water, especially if not changed at regular intervals. Chlorine kills most such bacteria, at the same time expending its strength.
That's not to say that the chlorine residual levels in delivered drinking water are sufficient to "treat" all such growth...just that the little that's there will probably expend itself trying. Thus "removing" the chlorine.
