im trying to find a way to filter water. can i do it with one of those britta filter things.

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My cat rarely drinks from her water bowl of filter water (changed every morning) so I want to add water to her canned food. She LOVES the liquid in canned food so I mix in 50% canned food and 50% water to make a soup. She’ll eat the whole thing within minutes and leave nothing but a few solid pieces behind.

Is there anything wrong with this? How much water should she get a day? Can she get too much water?

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first time living in a new house. have municipal water. after 2 years, my water is starting to taste bad. is it my filter? water softener? we have a lot of new construction near us.

it doesn’t look bad but just has a funny taste. noone is sick in my family. what do you think?

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So when i leave for school in the morning i give him fresh water (from the tap) and then when i get home there’s not much difference, as if he doesn’t drink it at all. So my bro and I filled up a water bottle with filter water (using that Pur filter). When we bottle fed it he wanted more, but when i lead him to his water bowl he doesn’t want to drink. I put some of this stuff called Aquafresh in the water, it’s a breath freshener. Still, he doesn’t drink it. I think it might be that the water’s from the tap. What’s happening, how do i get him to drink?
I used the dehydration test before, he wasn’t dehydrated. Yes, he knows how to drink out of a bowl because usually after dinner or after a walk he’d run up to it and take huge laps(slowly, we made sure it he didn’t gulp air). I’ll try using bottled water. When we put ice cubes, he just fishes them out and gnaws on them and leaves them to melt on the carpet/floor.

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Do water filters, like Brita and Pur filter water enough to use to prepare formula, or would boiling/ bottled water still be needed?

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I am a healthy living guy, eat organic food, filter water, eat natural foods, hate diet chemical drinks, trans fats, msg, canned foods lines with BPA and so on and so on. Now why would I let my baby be breastfed by a mother who eats all of these things when I can give her Hipp Organic milk with filtered water. My GF did really well during pregnancy giving up smoking, drinking, eating fresh fruit, veg, and everything else I insisted on such as pure fish oils. As soon as pregnancy was over, she told me she couldnt keep it up. My question is did I do the right thing? I dont believe any intelligence difference can be proved to be just breast feeding, as the experiments are flawed. i.e A mother who breastfeeds is more likely to be more intelligent and therefore have a more intelligent baby. Also there is no proof that and IQ gap lasts into adulthood, as that is more dependant on good genes and education. i.e if your parents have a high IQ, You will have a high one regardless. So why really should I expose my baby to chemicals if I dont have to?
Incidentally I have added fish oil to the bottles, as Hipp dont have marine based DHA fats.
Dyot! ,
It is you who have not read my question. Just because experiments have proved better intelligence does not mean its down to breast feeding. of course breast feeding is better with a healthy diet, and so the mum who breastfeeds, is more likely to be educated, and more intelligent. Unless you can isolate the factors that made that kid intelligent, it doesnt mean that much. To the 1st person who called me a troll : – you have obviously not read my question. I asked is it always best taking into account a bad diet. Plse dont put stupid comments down. Its a good question and I would have loved my GF to breast feed if she didnt smoke.
All other comments very good. Obviously I want the best for my baby, and adding a little fish oil, was taking a little risk, but I was trying to make up at least a little after research into DHA
Dyot, Although that experiment included Thirteen potential confounders including smoking, there are so many possible factors that could go to make intelligence. Did any of the mothers eat good fats bad fats, drink, drink caffeine, take vitamins, eat carrots, have organic formular with added DHA….have mercury fillings, get the picture? It would be impossible to say what combinations make a minimal improvement in intelligence. Good Genes obviously have a far bigger impact. U havent really understood my question as well as some of the others. I was asking mostly about exposure to chemicals and did the advantages of breastfeeding outweight organic bottle food with added DHA. Granted I can see why u have answered me that way, but u would fail certainly our HSBC verbal reasoning test by not answering the question. Is it always better, taking into account the chemicals my girlfriend absorbs in her body. There are probably bottle fed people here who have understood the question correctly.

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I need to pre-filter water from river before it gets to sediment cartridge filter. I am thinking it will work but am concerned algae nay be a problem and clog backwash sand filter prematurely. Anyone had experience with this? Cartridge filter clogs in about a week so is an expensive problem. Any alternative way of doing this?
Apparently the algae would be a problem in a pool type backwash filter. It would propagate in a warm vessel. Also backwash (with the same supply of water) would only add to the problem. Any other ideas?

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I got a new Brita. I followed all the guidelines of soaking a new filter and rinsing it and letting it filter water a few times before actually using it. But there is black specs floating in my filtered water that I know is coming from the filter. Is this normal? And what is it?

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Almost every day I have to scrub a green ring out of the bottom of my Brita filter water pitcher. It’s like it’s algae or something, but it grosses me out. How can I stop it?

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