Protect the environment! by ....
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That's pretty goofy and he does sound a little stupid, fumbling over his words and spouting barely intelligible gibberish, all in an attempt to say something pretty meaningless.
Of course, the guy you support never does anything like that.
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He is switching from one water container to another water container - thereby using presumably disposable water containers and buying his water at super inflated prices. Does he not have a working tap in the house we provide for him?
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I don't see how anyone can claim they "care about the environment" and drink bottled water
Water is heavy, it takes a lot of energy to transport. energy to make the container, energy to dispose of the container
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I don't claim to be a greenie, and I usually drink bottled water. Where I live in South Florida can't be much better than Flint Michigan for tap water. We use a Brita Filter, but even that is not enough at times.
But yes, anyone claiming to be a modern Eco Warrior would have paid up for a high tech filtration system.
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The water source here is the Rio Grande, the ground water is brackish. The water treatment plant adds lots of chemicals to make the water safe, I run it through a series of filters for my drinking water
anyone can set up a water filtration system and get extremely high quality drinking water for cents per gallon
The britta filters are good, but only handle a small volume before the filter must be replaced, I use the under sink, sediment filter and charcoal filter, then to an ionizer, you can run thousands of gallons of water through them before they need replaced
A real environmentalist would have a water filtration system and a soda stream
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I need to do something for the house. Unfortunately I really need to do whole home and not just drinking water. The water quality swings from one extreme to the other. I have a poor sense of smell, yet i can smell issues often when showering. Sometimes there is a small but detectable odor of what smells like sewage. Other times it smells like extremely strong chlorine, as if you were shocking a pool. Maybe because I live in an unincorporated area, we never get boil water orders, nor warnings of treating their system. Full home systems aren't cheap. It is on the list of things the house needs :-/ In the meantime I may try out the ZeroWater system for drinking.
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I miss my short time in Huntsville, AL. The tap water was absolutely perfect. It was so good, that my dry scalp condition went away on it's own just showering there. While living here the rest of my life, I have to use clinical strength dandruff shampoo. From my ~7 months in AL I found out it is the water agitating my scalp, not a medical condition. Yes I've tried shower head filters. I've not found them effective.
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get a whole house filter, use both a sediment and charcoal filter
get one with a clear filter housing for the sediment, so you can see when it needs replaced
a sediment filter before the charcoal filter will make the charcoal filter last 3x as long ( otherwise the charcoal filter plugs with the super fine particles the sediment filter catches )
get one with a clear filter housing for the sediment, so you can see when it needs replaced
a sediment filter before the charcoal filter will make the charcoal filter last 3x as long ( otherwise the charcoal filter plugs with the super fine particles the sediment filter catches )
