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Tiny Choices Qamp;A: Will Brita Pitchers Leach Impurities? | Tiny Choices
I read your post about the plastic drinking bottles, and other choices, and the plastic that “leeches” into the water, couldn’t get that picture out of my head… BUT I am wondering about the Brita Water Pitchers that filter tap water for a short list of impurities. We use one, and I have been looking at it suspiciously, wondering what is leeching into our “cleaned” water. Do you know anything about these?
First of all, I want to emphasize that Brita water pitchers are simple carbon filters. They filter out taste, mostly. When you say a short list of impurities, you are totally right. But that’s ok: municipal water in the United States is INCREDIBLY SAFE and usually of an excellent flavor. I use my Brita because the pipes in my building make my water taste not great. And I hate to say it, but the kinds of contaminants that are unsafe and may end up in our tap water will not necessarily be removed by a simple and inexpensive filtration system. I’m talking about lead, arsenic, disinfection byproducts, and microbial pathogens like e. coli or cryptosporidium. [ This article has a brief rundown if you want to educate and/or scare yourself, and this is a good comparison of Brita vs. tap .] Brita filters are designed to reduce (note: not remove!) chlorine, lead, copper, cadmium, mercury, benzene, and sediment, but if you don’t change the filter as suggested you won’t be reducing the levels at all after a certain point. If you do have water that requires a filter, be sure you’re using one that is most appropriate for the contaminants in your area. Co-op America and the NRDC have very comprehensive articles about finding the right filter for you.
...The Ups and Downs
I decided on Sunday to write a blog about my writing day to encourage you regardless of whether you were doing well or doing poorly. I didn’t expected that I’d have one day of each!
I planned my NaNo writing for Monday through Friday, like a regular job. I need to get better at treating my writing like a regular job anyway, so now that I’m moved and half unpacked, it seemed like a good time to get a solid routine going. There are 21 weekdays in November, so that is 2381 words a day to hit the 50,000 mark by the end of November. I came home from a Halloween party at midnight on Saturday, so from 12:00 to 12:04am, while my husband brushed his teeth, I wrote 68 words. It felt great to start at the exact moment I was able to!
Sunday I thought about my book, and probably would’ve written something if I’d had nothing going on, but it was a busy day so I relaxed. Monday, my day looked like this:
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