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What are these little black things (they look like beads)? Are they safe for me to still drink from the brita pitcher?
its from the filter. The filter in your Brita is a charcoal filter. It's perfectly safe if you drink it, but if it bothers you, just pick them out. They actually use that charcoal in poison victims to help clean out their system. So there is no harm.
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Functional objects can be beautiful, too
"I'm not even a designer," is the first thing Desrochers, the 34-year-old Montreal creator of the Ovopur water-filtration unit, says about himself.
"But I've always been preoccupied by water and how underappreciated it is in our society. We open the tap and let it pour, or we buy it in plastic bottles and then throw them away.
"In our society, water is taken for granted or hidden away."
It's that sentiment that prompted him to come up with an eco-friendly water-filtration system for the home or office that is at once functional, environmentally friendly and aesthetically pleasing. His Ovopur, which retails for about $690, is an egg-shaped water-filtration system of handmade porcelain and mouthblown glass that filters tap water through a reusable glass filter and keeps it cool without electricity.
The water trickles down from an upper reservoir, through a glass filter containing four layers of filtering materials, and into an 11-litre egg-shaped porcelain reservoir whose thermal properties keep the water cool.
...Bottled, Brita . . . or Just Straight From the Tap? Part 3 ...
You’re worried about the purity of straight tap water, but you don’t want to buy bottled water, either. Your third option is to buy a water filter. Personal water filters, such as Brita or PUR , claim to “reduce copper, chlorine (taste and odor) and mercury.” However, is filtered water really better—or necessary?
Pitcher filters work by running water through a porous carbon sheet. The sheet acts as a sieve, catching and filtering larger particulate matter. Then, chemical and organic pollutants such as chlorine and pesticides bond with the carbon and, thus, are removed from the water. Meanwhile, ion resin beads filter out metals such as copper and lead by attracting the metals and releasing H+ or Na+ ions “in exchange.” The result is purer H 0.
Small, disposable, inline water filters were first produced by Omnipure Filter Company in 1970. One of their biggest attractions was—and is—that they would protect consumers from the poisonous properties of lead. (Adverse health effects include damage to the brain and kidneys, fetal developmental defects, and neurological development in young children.) Sixteen years later, the Environmental Protection Agency updated its regulations, limiting lead levels in drinking water to no more than 15 parts per billion (compared to the previous 50ppb level). Water treatments around the country have complied, and lead levels are now often so low as to be undetectable, rendering the lead-removal properties of personal water filters superfluous.
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