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I received an estimate from Clearwater on a new watersoftener and a reverse osmosis drinking water system, everything inlcuded - including installation for $1600. My father seems to think that this price is high. Is it, or is it a fair price? Also if you have a softener, do you need the r/o system as well or is it ok to just drink the softened water?

Your paying to much depending on how large the water softener is. Yes, you should have a RO system along with a water softener. Water softeners raise the TDS(total dissolved solids) in water with excess sodium. It's not healthy to drink all that sodium. You can get a system much cheaper than that, not installed but installation usually cost about $200-$300 dollars. My company would sell you a top of the line water softener and RO for $1000.00 delivered to your house. Installation would be up to you. You would save 3-4 hundred dollars.

2007-06-05 08:56:40 by punkinbutt'smama

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Hi everyone....I've recently moved to UK, and would like to know how does the drinking water system work here. Is it advisable to drink water from the hot water tap in the house, or should we drink water only from the cold water tap.

Sources for any information provided would be appreciated.
Some people have told me the water from the hot water tap is a recycled water which comes after the waste water treatment....is this true.. ?

Tap water in the UK is fine to drink straight from the main feed.

Not a good idea to drink from the hot water tap or from a tank feed as the water has been standing and could have some sort of contaminants in it.
If the hot water feed is from the mains into a combi boiler then it is going to be ok.

All water is fed to households from the same mains feed - you would only get "recycled" water if the building was set up to do that and it is rare that any normal buildings would have any sort of water recycling set up.

2009-01-18 17:55:53 by YAMAHA

It constantly sounds like it is dripping but its not. Is that normal?

no.

2008-06-16 23:02:49 by wilson

Price: $11.95

Single unit filters up to 20 gallons of water; improves tastes and eliminates odors
Particle blend removes more than 99.9 percent of cryptosporidium and Giardia
Weighs less than 1 ounce; use in conjunction with treatment drops or tablets for best results

I require the system that supply drinking water which is coin operated. That is if I put coin in the system the water will deliver in certain amount

omg

2008-03-02 05:37:07 by Md I

I have a client who says he sells a Water purification system that takes humidity out of the air and converts it to drinking water. He wants to sell this to businesses with the claim that it will save them money since they don’t have to buy 5 gallon water jugs for their water cooler. Has anyone ever heard of anything like this before? If so is there a website I can check out.

http://www.homefilteredwater.com/

http://allcrs.newsreview.com/MiscForSale /_1_995_xziex_atmospheric_water_generato r_water_from_air/classifieds/ViewAd?oid= 1343768

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pros and cons

First, your talking about water that people ingest. Think of the liability for the company if they are producing their own drinking water for their employees and something goes wrong. Versus using another companies bottled water. Something like the filters or ozone generator fail and you get contaminated water...

Second, when you remove water from the air, the air becomes more dry. To compensate for dry air in the winter months, we usually add water via humidifiers. During the summer months we remove water via air conditioning. if we remove more for drinking water, we MAY have to adjust the air conditioning or add water from a humidifer to make the air comfortable. Sometimes, the relative humidity is high enough that it may actually help to remove water via this apparatus. Depends on the climate and the office conditions.

Third, this equipment uses a condensor and an ozone generating device. Although it claims to be very "efficient", condensors use electricity. So do ozone generating devices. (your home air conditioner is a condenser fyi). The company claims the cost will be as low as 10 cents / gallon to operate the condensor but that actual costs depend on the local utilities. Not sure what to make of that. I'd like to see the specs on the unit before I'd say it would save $.

Fourth, the equipment claims to filter to 0.01 micron, ozonate the water, and remove funny tastes and odors. This means it uses a 0.01 micron membrane filter, a carbon filter and an ozonater. They all sound expensive to replace. probably quarterly for the filters and annually for the ozone generator. Meaning you need a maintenance contract

All that said, it is certainly interesting. If your "distributor ship" accepts the liability for problems, if the cost was low enough per gallon to be attractive to the companies, if the conditions of the office were adequate for the equipment, it may work. Especially in todays world where drinking water companies are being questioned about the source of their water...

2008-10-10 09:39:56 by hopster