How to make the water better?
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 at
4:09 am
The area I am staying in for the summer has nasty tap water. I have a PUR water filter pitcher in my fridge but the acrid sweetness of the water remains. Is there anything I can do short of blowing money on bottled water all summer?
Thanks
I want water! Your suggestions of how to flavor the water do not help. I want water tasting water. :p
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This may or may not work, but it’s worth a try. Before putting the water in your pitcher, bring it to a boil, let it boil at least 5 – 10 minutes. Perhaps try adding a pinch of salt during the boil? My grandmother always boils her tap water before drinking, she says it takes out the taste of the chemicals…I drink straight from the tap and don’t mind, and I do notice that her boiled water tastes different (in a good way). So give it a shot, if it works, it will save you some money
Put those little splenda flavor-packs in your water.
Slice up some cucumber or lemon and add it to the water. IT is very refreshing when you do this, the cucumber is great for your stomach, the lemon helps cleans your liver helping to clearing up any skin imperfections and making you healthier.
use crystal light i like the lemonade kind
"Filtered" water is nothing more but tap water that they claim is "fresher". The good type of water is spring water. But those come in bottles. I *just* started drinking water not too long ago so I wouldn’t know much. (Please don’t give me a low rating for my lack of knowledge for water)
I suggest you try out Sunny’s idea. Boiling water usually helps a lot.
Too bad there’s no water-flavored packets.
I’m not sure what you mean by acrid sweetness. If you like bottled water and not that tap water, it is likely that they use chloramination instead of chlorination for a distribution system disinfectant.
This is much harder to remove as it is a persistent disinfectant, which is why they use it.
The PUR pitcher will likely use activated carbon. It is a small filter and It will probably not give you enough carbon and enough contact time to get rid of the chloramines.
Boiling water should destroy the chloramines but as a side effect, if you boil water too long you will concentrate anything else in there, like lead or nitrates.
You need something that can give a much larger surface area of activated carbon. Something like this:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0018MVZJE?ie=UTF8&tag=thmiofsp-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0018MVZJE
With the carbon filter linked below on the page. That should work to removed the chloramines, if indeed that is your issue.
Before doing anything, you should contact your municipality and explain your issue to them, perhaps they have a better solution or can offer more insight as they will know the water supply the best.
PUR or Brita pitcher will not do much. There’s a 4-stage Crystal Quest pitcher, which is a Consumer Digest best buy 4 years in a row, that will remove more contaminants than any over the counter filter:
http://www.filterwater.com/pc-35-2-crystal-quest-pitcher-water-filter.aspx
But pitcher may not be large enough to do a good job. Have a look at several advanced counter top filters:
http://www.filterwater.com/c-12-countertop-filters.aspx
For instance, like this no-maintenance one that has no cartridge to replace:
http://www.filterwater.com/pc-61-12-no-maintenance-countertop-filter.aspx