Do you use a water filter for your sink????

Question

Water contains residue of all kinds of chemicals and heavy metals. Do you have one of those Walmart, Home Depot $9 water filter on your sink?????

Would you buy one knowing it can clear 99.9% of all residue poisons in the water?

if there's a product I'm SURE wasn't created as "another disease to sell the cure," it's the water filter.

There's a famous movie with John Travolta, about a true story...an small city somewhere in the US had a very high incidence of leukemia. The causes were linked to a plant's chemical leaks and illegal dumping into a lake nearby...a lake which was somehow connected to the town's watter supply.

So spring water from the mountains is safe. Water somewhere near the numerous steel plants in Indiana? I doubt it's healthy for you.

Answer 1

Yes I have one but mine cost a lot more that that. I have the whole soft water system and the drinking filtration system that has three separate filters under the sink and they have to be changed out we got it from Sears.

Answer 2

Yes. Buy a water filter. Any water filter is better than none.

It is possible that your tap water is pretty safe but you can't be sure and the quality could change from day to day.

For responders who believe water filters are just useless, I have a few questions:

1)How do you know for sure? What do you make of the many studies that show public water supples are polluted and the problem will get worse.

2)Let's say there's an argument either way, wouldn't you want to play it safe when all you really need to spend is a few dollars a year?

3)A ploy to sell filters? Then can't you say that every health recommendation is a ploy to sell something or to drive traffic to some website?

4)There are hundreds of studies that link contaminants in the water to serious, chronic diseases. How do you explain them? Are they all ploys by greedy researchers?

Come on. Use some common sense. Being that we drink water all the time, breath the air around us, have 3 or more meals a day, are beings that are designed to move our bodies, don't you suppose that some basic things we can all do is to try and get some fresh air, eat as well as we can, exercise a bit and, yes, drink some good healthy water?

Yes, you might have guessed, I run a website that is concerned with the relationship between water and health.
I make a few dollars, sometimes pennies a day.

Do you honestly feel I'm doing this for the money? I could make much more money setting up a lemonade stand.

Do some research, then decide.
http://www.healthy-water-best-filters.com/

Answer 3

I don't think any of those filters can really filter out most the chemicals and metals, but I also don't think there's much to worry about as far as tap water is concerned. I think it's just a ploy to sell more water filters. Another example of creating a disease to sell the cure.
My wife, on the other hand, only drinks distilled water. We have a water distiller, but we don't use it because it takes about 5 hours to get 1 gallon. We buy about 1 gallon per day.

EDIT: The same is true for the movie Erin Brokovitch, but those incidents are extremely rare, and such movies serve to sensationalize the threat. It happens all the time. Charcoal or sand filters like the kind made by PUR and Brita aren't going to remove those types of chemicals. The best bet is the multi-filtration process that combines filtration and distillation or reverse osmosis. I've pasted an article below.

Answer 4

properly, it relies upon... I stay in a distant city, so my water comes from a properly... I drink my tap water. in case you stay in a city, then you have city water, which received't continually be sparkling: it would want to have micro-sized organisms, airborne dirt and dirt, or perhaps worse :( . Bottled water in a plastic water bottle is now also undesirable for you. Scientists trust that the chemical substances found contained in the bottles easily receives released into your water after some days. So, in case you opt for to drink the perfect style of water, drink filtered. in case you opt for to deliver your water to a sport, or something, ensure that you do position it in a metallic reusable bottle. strong luck!!!!!!!

Answer 5

Nope, the tap water is filtered before it gets to me. I'm already paying for that, why would I want to pay more when it isn't going to make that big of a difference? I've never had a problem with my water.

Answer 6

I have a Pur filter in my refridge...so my ice and water from the water spout on the front of the fridge are purified. The filters are $50...damn!!!!

Answer 7

Yes I use one and I love it. I actually use the Britta pitcher filter, you fill it up with water and it filters the water and you set it in the fridge and can drink it when it is cold. I love it!

Answer 8

I don't drink tap water, period. Yuck. Bottled water only.

Answer 9

Yes, I have one.

Answer 10

NO WE HAVE A VERY GOOD TASTE OF WATER IN NORWAY,,JUST LIKE NATURE...MINERAL WATER