Where do you get your drinking water?

Where do you get your drinking water?

  • Tap

    Votes: 313 64.3%

  • Bottled mineral water

    Votes: 53 10.9%

  • RO water

    Votes: 68 14.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 53 10.9%
  • Total voters
    487
wingnut771 said:
Surely his mate would get it first? He can be the canary in the coal mine.
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People can build up immunity to a lot of differing bacteria. This is shown by tourists going to the Far East and suffering from stomach ailments, whereas the local people have no problems. The same can be said of farmers who have been drinking borehole water since they were weaned.
 
Tap water through Berkey. Our tap water is a funny colour even though it tastes fine.
 
Geoff.D said:
Filtered tap water. But not RO. RO removes everything including essential minerals and you end up "dead" water.
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I modified my filter to a 6 stage system where the minerals lost by the RO membrane filter are replaced by the additional stage.

5 Stage Reverse Osmosis (RO) system is one of the best under-counter solutions you can implement in your home or office to ensure safe, pure, and great tasting water.

The multi-stage filtration technology eliminates 99.8% of harmful contaminants in water such as bacteria, viruses, lead, radium, chlorine, and arsenic, and it also removes 99.8% of all minerals from water. Low mineral content water is a great option for detoxifying your body as well as helping to prevent and dissolve kidney stones, but our optional Mineral Injector cartridge can be added to the system to insert traces of potassium, calcium, magnesium, germanium and iron back into the water if required (purchased separately).

The 5 stages of the RO water filtration included in this system:
1st Stage: 10 inch Standard Melted Spray Sediment filter
2nd Stage: 10 inch Standard Granular Activated Carbon filter (GAC)
3rd Stage: 10 inch Standard Activated Carbon Block filter
4th Stage: Reverse Osmosis membrane: 50 GPD (Gallons per day)
5th Stage: ST33 Inline Color, Taste and Odour filter (CTO Filter)

(Optional 6th Stage: Mineral injector - purchased separately)
 
Nemesys said:
I modified my filter to a 6 stage system where the minerals lost by the RO membrane filter are replaced by the additional stage.

5 Stage Reverse Osmosis (RO) system is one of the best under-counter solutions you can implement in your home or office to ensure safe, pure, and great tasting water.

The multi-stage filtration technology eliminates 99.8% of harmful contaminants in water such as bacteria, viruses, lead, radium, chlorine, and arsenic, and it also removes 99.8% of all minerals from water. Low mineral content water is a great option for detoxifying your body as well as helping to prevent and dissolve kidney stones, but our optional Mineral Injector cartridge can be added to the system to insert traces of potassium, calcium, magnesium, germanium and iron back into the water if required (purchased separately).

The 5 stages of the RO water filtration included in this system:
1st Stage: 10 inch Standard Melted Spray Sediment filter
2nd Stage: 10 inch Standard Granular Activated Carbon filter (GAC)
3rd Stage: 10 inch Standard Activated Carbon Block filter
4th Stage: Reverse Osmosis membrane: 50 GPD (Gallons per day)
5th Stage: ST33 Inline Color, Taste and Odour filter (CTO Filter)

(Optional 6th Stage: Mineral injector - purchased separately)
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How much do you sell them for?
 
Nemesys said:
I modified my filter to a 6 stage system where the minerals lost by the RO membrane filter are replaced by the additional stage.

5 Stage Reverse Osmosis (RO) system is one of the best under-counter solutions you can implement in your home or office to ensure safe, pure, and great tasting water.

The multi-stage filtration technology eliminates 99.8% of harmful contaminants in water such as bacteria, viruses, lead, radium, chlorine, and arsenic, and it also removes 99.8% of all minerals from water. Low mineral content water is a great option for detoxifying your body as well as helping to prevent and dissolve kidney stones, but our optional Mineral Injector cartridge can be added to the system to insert traces of potassium, calcium, magnesium, germanium and iron back into the water if required (purchased separately).

The 5 stages of the RO water filtration included in this system:
1st Stage: 10 inch Standard Melted Spray Sediment filter
2nd Stage: 10 inch Standard Granular Activated Carbon filter (GAC)
3rd Stage: 10 inch Standard Activated Carbon Block filter
4th Stage: Reverse Osmosis membrane: 50 GPD (Gallons per day)
5th Stage: ST33 Inline Color, Taste and Odour filter (CTO Filter)

(Optional 6th Stage: Mineral injector - purchased separately)
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Where's the UV light?
 
I just use the Tap, as much as there is fubar in this country, we do still have among the most drinkable tap water in the world.

Just nobody tell cANCer, they fubar that one too if they find out.
 
ProvoZA said:
Activated carbon filters will completely remove any chlorine and chloramines from your water and the taste will be substantially better. If you have a laboratory analysis of the borehole water, you don't really know what you are drinking. Many boreholes in SA, especially in areas near informal settlements or livestock farms are laced with coliform contamination, so even though it looks and taste good, you may end up with dysentery or worse.
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Farm is thankfully pretty far from the gobsmacking beauty of squatter camps, dismal animal concentration camps etc...I wouldnt mind getting a setup though when finances allow...I do have a borehole but its has a metallic taste....I just use it for watering the garden/

Ive also seen the local municipality fishing a plastic lilo out of the single reservoir that feeds the town...There is a a school a few km away....The guy said they assume the kids are swimming in it...The steel trap doors to the reservoir and even the steel ladder going up the reservoir are long gone....
 
Borehole to large jojo which is then filtered. Get the water tested every 6 months. Actually a fairly large saving that paid off the system in under a year.
We had questions about bilharzia in the east rand with the municipal water
 
mojoman said:
Farm is thankfully pretty far from the gobsmacking beauty of squatter camps, dismal animal concentration camps etc...I wouldnt mind getting a setup though when finances allow...I do have a borehole but its has a metallic taste....I just use it for watering the garden/

Ive also seen the local municipality fishing a plastic lilo out of the single reservoir that feeds the town...There is a a school a few km away....The guy said they assume the kids are swimming in it...The steel trap doors to the reservoir and even the steel ladder going up the reservoir are long gone....
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Isn't this a case for RO with re-mineralisation and UV light filter system?
 
wingnut771 said:
Isn't this a case for RO with re-mineralisation and UV light filter system?
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I think the casing is finished...someone told me they can put in a plastic sleeve...?
However the muppets who had the property first build a small structure over the borehole...lol!
And I was told a filtration system would be in excess of R10k on this?
 
mojoman said:
I think the casing is finished...someone told me they can put in a plastic sleeve...?
However the muppets who had the property first build a small structure over the borehole...lol!
And I was told a filtration system would be in excess of R10k on this?
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I think it all depends on how much water you want to filter - I don’t think the small under counter systems are too expensive - I don’t have one, I drink Durban’s sweet water out the tap so maybe others can comment on cost?
 
Home RO system from rainwater collection in the rainy season, supplemented with municipal water when the tanks (20,000L) run dry.
 
wingnut771 said:
I think it all depends on how much water you want to filter - I don’t think the small under counter systems are too expensive - I don’t have one, I drink Durban’s sweet water out the tap so maybe others can comment on cost?
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Honestly can’t tell the difference but I know people that drink bottled water in GP and tap water in KZN.

Solarion said:
Water these days from Durban's taps smells dik of Chloromine. My cat won't even drink it she paws at it and stares at me.
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Having visited an Umgeni Water treatment plant, we’re lucky compared to other countries which drink recycled water.
 
bwana said:
I'm a fan of tap water but for 1/2-3/4 of the month we're running off rainwater tanks so it's not really an option.
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I run off rain water ten months out of twelve on average. I have my own RO filtration plant (about R6k for a good one) and have unlimited fantastic drinking water. RO unit will pay for itself within a year due to savings on bottled water.
 
BBSA said:
Not a fan of removing minerals from my water.
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A good RO unit has a mineral ball stage after the membrane that puts back minerals into the water. This is very important as those minerals are an essential part of your diet. Cheaper systems omit this stage but it is not difficult to add it to an existing system.
 
LCBXX said:
@bwana
It would also be interesting to know where people are, who respond to the poll.
I suspect those who live in metro's hardly have issues with tap-water quality vs those living in smaller cities or towns, where the ANC have fscked up the drinking water supply processes.
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They have forked up the water in some of the metros too.
 
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