I think that one should be able to make a simple water filteration system using bottles/buckets, sand, gravel charcoal, etc. to make reasonably clean tap water safer and tastier.Although I found some, I could not find the information that I thought would be readily available on the internet. Any suggestions?

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I just moved and couldn’t hook up my water filter to the new house’s faucet because I didn’t have the right adapter. I have now bought the adapter, and hooked it up. I’m just wondering, since I didn’t flush it prior to moving, it’s had water sitting in the chamber for a couple of weeks. Would that water, sitting over the charcoal and stuff int he filter, cause it to go bad, or even begin to spread bacteria?

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I mean, it’s a charcoal filter. Wouldn’t that filter pee into something drinkable?
I really don’t want to spend money on one unless I can drink my own urine.

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Weve been using the Brita pitcher for about 2 weeks now. Last night I poured me a glass in a white cup. A few minutes later there was a black ring of the charcoal dust at the bottom of the cup. Is that ok to drink? I know it says to run water through it a few times before using and weve done that.

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I am doing a science project, and I have to build a filter to remove sand, food coloring and oil from water. I already figured out how to seperate the sand, and oil, however, to remove the food coloring, I have to add powdered charcoal. The problem is I do not know how to remove the powdered charcoal from the water. I need the water to end up pure water. Do you guys have any suggestions?
What do you mean by "Filter"? We can’t buy a filter because we have to make our own. Do you have any suggestions of how to make it?

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I’ve heard contradictions about this so I figured I’d sollicit your opinions. Are activated charcoal water filters safe to use or does the charcoal actually seep carcinogens into the water?

I’ve never had a problem drinking water out of the tap but I figure if I can find ways to make it even cleaner and to remove water filtartion chemichals from it, why not?

The only problem is that I’ve heard that activated charcoal might actually do more harm than good. I know that as a hobby aquarist, I have never put it in my water filter since I’ve heard that after a certain while, it starts releasing all the toxins back into the water and adds some of it’s own.

any opinions on this matter?

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We normally drink bottled water at home. We use filtered tap water for our hot water. I was just wondering if tap watered filtered by Brita charcoal is safe to drink. My wife says activated charcoal does not filter out organisms or the tiny amout of parasites that might be in the municipal tap water.

I checked the label for the bottled water in the grocery store. They usually say it’s been ozonated and filtered by activated charcoal. Even the water from the spring water says it’s been filtered. That seems to tell me you need to filter out the organic impurities with charcoal and treat it with something to kill off the germs. Is that correct? Thanks.

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I’m sick of seeing those black rocks, dust, tiny particles in my Brita water. So I stopped drinking it because I thought it was unhealthy. Is it unhealthy to drink it?

It’s charcoal, so, isn’t consuming charcoal a bad thing?

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it seems such a waste. Is there anyone who offers cartridges which have screw off top or bottom so it can simply be refilled with fresh activated carbon? I can find 50 pouinds of activated carbon for like a dollar a pound. That would be about 1/20th the cost of buying a whole plastice cartridge every few months.
re: <<will it still be activated charcoal>>
Well it sat in the side of a mountain for a hundred millenium I would hope the carbon should age well sitting in a pastic bag in my closet. I mean how long do those store filters sit on the shelf before you come along and buy them? Are those still "activated" either? If anything should age pretty well I would hope it would be a charcoal rock.

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Does filtering water before drinking it actually do anything to it? According to the water quality reports, tap water in the US is safe to drink, so I am wondering if the filter serves as mainly a psychological thing. Can anyone point to any studies on this?
Yeah, I know how the charcoal in the filter is supposed to work. I was just wondering if there are really any impurities to begin with.

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The Drinking Water comes from a municipal source and is filtered with charcoal.

The Spring Water doesn’t say if it’s filtered at all; would I be right to assume that both variations are filtered to an extent?

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I have a Pur water filter, and there is black charcoal coming out of it. It is a new filter (2 Weeks). What should I do?

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I am wondering what the best water to drink is.

I have researched so much about distilled, spring, and drinking water and how bottled water that is basically tap water.

The processes such as reverse osmosis, Charcoal…etc.

I want PURE water. Water with no fluoride or anything else harmful and with its minerals. Every filter seems to have some problem with it whether it takes out important minerals or some that leaves in fluoride…etc

It seems that no one has this answer no matter how much I Research.

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For homebrew, I need a water source free of chlorine (or chloramine, which is chlorine+ammonia).

Will a charcoal filter out chloramine? Standard pitcher filters like Brita? What else?

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I’ve lived in Oregon most of my life and the tap water there tastes very clean and fresh, but I just moved to California and the tap water tastes very stale and almost somewhat fishy. I don’t want to have to keep buying bottled water, so would one of those (charcoal?) water-filter pitchers help the water taste more pure and good?

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