KDF Media vs Silver Impregnated Carbon

KDF Media vs Silver Impregnated Carbon – which is better in a whole house water filter?

It’s my opinion that bathing in shower water when there is a silver impregnated carbon whole house water filter on the house can harm your skin’s micro-biome. Why? Because silver kills bacteria. It is also a well known fact that the silver leaches into the water supply and needs to be replaced often. KDF Media vs Silver Impregnated Carbon – Which is Better in a Whole House Water Filter?

I use KDF in my Urban Defender whole house water filter. While KDF can be used to turn chlorine into chloride, as it does in shower filters, I use it in the Urban Defender for

  • its anti-bacterial properties,
  • its ability to remove certain metals from water such as lead, and
  • its .01 millivolt electrical ionization.
  • A comparison shows that KDF is the better choice. Continue reading

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Ohio Train Derailment Chemical Spill

The Ohio train derailment chemical spill took place on the Ohio/Pennsylvania border in the town of East Palestine. Chemical contaminants include vinyl chloride, butyl acrylate, ethylhexyl acrylate and ethylene glycol monobutyl ethers. These entered a creek that flows into the Ohio River.

They are now flowing down the length of the river and will enter the Mississippi River. Concentrations will become diluted as other rivers enter the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. Cities along the Ohio that use river water are shutting off their intakes as the chemical toxins pass by, meanwhile drawing on other sources of water. This is intended to protect people. Continue reading

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Climate Change Efforts Will Worsen Water Quality

Climate change efforts will worsen water quality in areas of the country where farming is present. This is because the federal government will be promoting the use of crops to create alternative fuels. These are programs that are already funded.

If you live in the Midwest right now your water is tainted with nitrates and other farm chemicals. The same is true in all of the corn belt states. And true also in any major agricultural area. The Central Valley of California has horrible water. I’ve suggested to potential customers that they leave the area and certainly don’t raise children there. Continue reading

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Wastewater to Drinking Water – A Brilliant Idea or Another Fiasco?

Local water districts are beginning to pump treated wastewater into aquifers that provide drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people. Turning wastewater into drinking water – is this a brilliant idea or another fiasco? Humans are really good at the latter.

In one case in Colorado the wastewater will simply be used again as drinking water, after treatment of course. The advantage of pumping into a groundwater source is dilution. “The solution to pollution is dilution.”

The problem with this is that in bringing wastewater up to drinking water standards what are we missing? It is only within the last year that USEPA and others have realized that PFAs and PFOAs, known as the forever chemicals, are in rain across the planet and in everyone’s drinking water.

What else don’t we know?

These articles don’t mention anything about the removal of PFAs and their cousins or the removal of pharmaceuticals, which are present in all wastewater. USEPA has yet to acknowledge that pharmaceuticals in drinking water pose a health hazard. Of course they do!

Virginia Uses Treated Wastewater to Shore Up a Drinking Water Aquifer – The New York Times (nytimes.com)

Colorado to reuse water for drinking, creating new supply (msn.com)

Drought and water shortages are causing water districts to do all sorts of things, particularly demanding that consumers use less water. But these same jurisdictions continue to allow new building. They are living beyond their means.

The solution is to acknowledge the limits to growth imposed by a resource such as potable water and then live within that limit.

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THE FALLACY OF WATER CONSERVATION

Six million people in Southern California will be prohibited from watering their lawns beginning June 1. In Las Vegas the water intake in Lake Mead is now partially protruding from the lake. There is no question that the Colorado River in particular and the West in general is experiencing drought. However, water conservation is a phony solution.

The fallacy of water conservation: do we need green lawns? No, of course not. The practice harkens back to medieval times when a ‘mowed landscape’ was an indication of wealth. The landowner’s livestock did the ‘mowing’. Somehow that status symbol carried on to today’s norms.

Still, lawns are useful. Continue reading

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Wildfires and Drinking Water

There is a relationship between wildfires and drinking water. When wildfires burn in areas that serve as the watershed for drinking water the quality of that drinking water will be affected the next year and perhaps longer. Fire kills the vegetation that holds soil in place. After a fire when there are heavy rains or spring snowmelt that water will carry debris down the hills and mountains to rivers and streams.

When debris is carried down the mountain it accumulates in reservoirs which serve as drinking water storage. Then when cities draw down that water and treat it with chlorine a reaction takes place that forms carcinogens. Two groups of compounds, known at the trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids are formed when chlorine interacts with organic material in the water. Continue reading

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Pearl Harbor Naval Base Pollutes Local Drinking Water

Perhaps you’ve heard about the Pearl Harbor naval base has polluted the local drinking water source. Somehow petroleum products have leaked into one of Oahu’s main water sources. This was just recently discovered after families and pets got sick from drinking the water. So far the source of the leak, likely underground storage tanks, has not been identified. This is the largest fresh water aquifer that serves the area.

Even though people are getting sick it appears as though the contaminant levels are below USEPA Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCL). Therefore they don’t violate federal law. Here are several of the contaminants found in Oahu’s water. Continue reading

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Phthalates in Pex Pipe

Once again phthalates are in the news. The presence of phthalates in drinking water and food packaging is even worse than we thought. A recent study found that they may be responsible for over 100,000 deaths in America each year. Because phthalates are present in pex pipes a drinking water filter is necessary to remove them. But the filter you need depends on more than just phthalates. You have to know what other contaminants are present in your water. To find out, look for your local water report. Continue reading

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Drinking Water Reduces Heart Disease

I came across this interesting article that articulates why drinking sufficient water every day is important. Drinking water reduces heart disease, a leading cause of death in the US. I’m sure you’ve heard that but this article actually ties water consumption to heart disease and sodium levels in your body.  They found that increases in serum sodium levels affected the likelihood of heart disease MANY YEARS LATER. Make sure you’re drinking filtered water. Continue reading

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The bottled waters I recommend are spring waters local to your region

The dog days of summer are here and people are out and about, traveling and eating at restaurants. Consumption of bottled water is at its peak. The bottled waters I recommend are spring waters local to your region.

First, I only drink filtered water when I can. I carry several bottles with me in my car and when traveling for less than a week by car I carry filtered water from home. People who ride with me ask about all the water in my car, but it’s very dry here in the West. Continue reading

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