Do you avoid water with chlorine and/or fluoride?

[DamianTV]

Poorly-phrased. I don't avoid chlorine, but I also don't drink the pool water.

Can you say "EeeeeeeWwwwwww"?

 

[deronde]

It is very hard to avoid! While many restaurants filter their water, it only removes the chlorine. Soft drinks contain it (unless they have RO water, which few do), coffee pots at work have it, food cooked at restaurants has it, etc... I avoid it as much as possible by buying spring water to drink and soon will be buying an in-home RO filter for my faucet, but I know I have to consume it from time to time. I read recently that the FDA is considering lowering their levels of recommended dosing of water supplies with fluoride.. a step in the right direction, but not enough! Consuming fluoride has NO POSITIVE EFFECT on the body! It is not excreted in the urine or feces -- it sticks in your pituitary gland! Yes, perhaps putting it on your teeth helps ward of cavities (some may dispute), but everyone in America can brush their damn teeth if they want to! Grr ok enough ranting.

 

[juvanya]

No, but I probably should.

 

[KevinR]

Just bought a water distiller, so I'm phasing it out

 

[anaconda]

I think reverse osmosis water (RO) has most of the chlorine & fluoride removed. I think Whole Foods sells it in bulk. the only off the shelf RO I know of is Aquafina.

 

[anaconda]

Just bought a water distiller, so I'm phasing it out

Does a distiller necessarily remove fluoride & chlorine?

 

[Carson]

The water I've considered the best in my life was the water I would find in the mountains. Generally the farther from people and up stream the better it got, as far as I was concerned. Then again I can remember some locations where I just couldn't get enough it was so good.

Once I met another camper and he asked me where I was getting water and I pointed to the river headwaters right over there. He looked at me funny and headed back down the mountain to the city to get some.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Does a distiller necessarily remove fluoride & chlorine?

Yes, distillation removes most impurities to essentially undetectable levels, assuming a clean collection chamber.

Trouble is, it takes out trace minerals that are vital to nutrition and without them the water tastes flat and stale.

 

[anaconda]

Costco sells R/O systems for under $200

http://www.costco.com/Browse/Produc..._Price|1||P_SignDesc1&lang=en-US&Sp=C&topnav=


http://www.costco.com/Browse/Produc..._Price|1||P_SignDesc1&lang=en-US&Sp=C&topnav=

 

[liberalnurse]

I invested in 3- 24oz. water bottles with filters that actually will filter creek, river and lake h2o. Each filter is good for 1000 gallons. Cost about $50.00 a piece. We have filters on our kitchen faucet. FYI the vet told me to give my cats only distilled h2o, so that's what I do and they love it. We also grow our own cat nip out by the garden and I will brew the cats catnip tea with dried buds and distilled h2o and they love this, as well.. It's good in a covered container for up to 3 days.

 

[Suzu]

I have a well and pull water from 150 ft underground. Clean and clear.

For the time being. Have you seen GASLAND?

 

[Suzu]

Fluoride and chlorine are definitely worth avoiding, and I absolutely do, always. Not so easy to avoid are the hundreds of toxic chemicals involved in hydraulic fracturing (to extract natural gas from under the ground) which contaminate groundwater. See the film GASLAND for more info.

 

[juvanya]

The water I've considered the best in my life was the water I would find in the mountains. Generally the farther from people and up stream the better it got, as far as I was concerned. Then again I can remember some locations where I just couldn't get enough it was so good.

Once I met another camper and he asked me where I was getting water and I pointed to the river headwaters right over there. He looked at me funny and headed back down the mountain to the city to get some.

Does that need to be boiled or anything?

 

[Carson]

Does that need to be boiled or anything?

Hopefully not.

I hardly ever did. Besides boiling it would kill the taste.


People have been drinking water like that for millions of years. I suppose there is a certain amount of risk which increases the nearer to people or livestock you get. Also the farther down stream you get.

The thing is while a draw back may be the water will support life the big plus is also that the water will support life. Like all things in life, they have their positive and negative sides.

Water with enough chlorine in it to kill one cell organisms also posses a certain amount of risk. It will kill the microbes but I imagine it also killing many single cells in our bodies. The way we survive it is that we are made up of lots of cells working together. Some get killed but others are there to carry us through.

Nothing quit like the taste of icy water out of a snow melt stream high in the Sierra Mountains.

 

[juvanya]

Hopefully not.

I hardly ever did. Besides boiling it would kill the taste.


People have been drinking water like that for millions of years. I suppose there is a certain amount of risk which increases the nearer to people or livestock you get. Also the farther down stream you get.

Yeah I always said that and wondered why we cant drink today. There is a spring near this place I went hiking once and I think people just fill up and drink. I suppose far upstream its usually safe.

 

[Lovecraftian4Paul]

I'm getting increasingly fanatical about my water. I try to drink only reverse osmosis in BPA free one gallon jugs that I get from a natural foods market close to where I live. Water distillers are also good, but not for drinking all the time (unless you add minerals to the water or get them from elsewhere).

I hope to one day have my own reverse osmosis system installed, or maybe even get one of those atmospheric generators.