How to Get PFAS Out of Your Drinking Water + Mental Health

[Chiefsmom]

I refuse to drink bottled water, because the bottler of that water is stealing water from somewhere.  Nestle, you a holes.

We have well water.  I don't really trust it as much as we should be able to, thanks to all the chemicals the farmers use, plastics and everything else.

But I really think that is the point.  To have control of water, which is necessary for life, in the hands of private companies.
Dependent, in yet another way, on someone else.

All about control.
It's so wrong.

[Waterglass]

okay this is like spending $1000 on a mattress that doesn't destroy your back... you don't really want to have to, but it's important to body health in the long run.

$650 for water distiller like this
$50 for a pressurized reserve tank like this
$150 for a pressure pump like this
$50 for a sink spigot like this

you can put the stuff in your basement or laundry room and run the line up to your kitchen. yeah it's like $900 but worth in the long run for health and if you buy bottled or filtered water add it up and you will be surprised how quickly it pays for itself.

anyway there is a possible solution instead of bickering about studies like waterglass mentioned we tend to do haha!

$900 is peanuts to us. We havent drank tap water direct since 1990. Went full supermarket drinking water in gallons in 2014 to present. 

Excellent stuff.

We grow as much as we can and even began exploring going down building an enclosed glass green house on a large scale ~ hydroponics but the food could still be contaminated by the city water. RO or the above is the answer. We would grow year round. Actually, CO2 is usually pumped into a greenhouse as the plants absorb it and grow.  

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :beer:

[Waterglass]

I refuse to drink bottled water, because the bottler of that water is stealing water from somewhere.  Nestle, you a holes.

We have well water.  I don't really trust it as much as we should be able to, thanks to all the chemicals the farmers use, plastics and everything else.

But I really think that is the point.  To have control of water, which is necessary for life, in the hands of private companies.
Dependent, in yet another way, on someone else.

All about control.
It's so wrong.

I grew up on Well Water. It had good taste and flavor. Was it contaminated? I dont know. Now that I read about plastic jugs, bottels and more  I am really concerned. 

Off topic but what I do know is that store bought GMO tomatos if left to rot to harvest their seeds will regrow back to the tomatos original DNA. Flavor and all

Agree, Nestle are A Holes

[Byrd]

Well done and thank you.

I used three examples of three states of what I didnt like. The radicalized government in Caifornia run by a Catholic, the radicalized government in New York State run by a Catholic and the crazy people in South Carolina, a Trump loving far right wing dont tell me what to do population of supposed "conservatives". Beleive me the spin on that they are religious is a farce. 

I was born in New York State and grew up there. It was high tax BUT it was civilized. People had respect for each other and law. That isnt the case where I live today in South Carolina, a state run by Republicans. 

I tossed out the PFAS as a potential cause based on the March 2025 graph who has been pooped on by many here. One even said its mine. NO it isnt is from a 3rd party and so tell me whay would a 3rd party lie. 

So now we debate that the charts arent vaild. Same ole as same ole back in the days of ATS. The discussion goes no where and dies. Father INTEL would want that.

I was a docent for Audubon parks... and ohboy, do I have Opinions about things in the water and their impact on the environment!  (like dog poop, cigarette butts, diapers, etc, etc.)  And water quality.  One of the places where I was a docent was an old superfund cleanup site.

The culture in the South (particularly Southern conservatives) is quite different than that of the North.  To some extent, racists in the North are different than the Southern ones (with their KKK and lynching background.)  So your sad experience isn't surprising once you look at the nuts and bolts of what each was taught about being a "proper citizen" during the last 140 years (going back to great-grandparents of the older generation.)

[rickymouse]

Well, here is something I found out recently.  I had no clue that gum is full of the elements of plastic.  I listed this article but found that there are quite a few articles on it on the net, many from reputable science sources.  These are synthetic chemistries, not natural sources like they used to be which were pretty much harmless other than for problems with teeth years ago....and of course the Janitors at schools kind of thought gum stuck to desks was bad.

Here is one article....  https://scitechdaily.com/researchers-war...your-body/

[baddmove]

I use this system on my fridge and all my drinking and cooking water,( one system for fridge and one for drinking water). I swapped out the regular filters for Flouride removal and an intense poisons and plastics removing filter, About $79 for each filter and my water tastes great. I'm 64 and still going to work every day and making sure I hit my 6000 steps a day. Good news is all of my apartment buildings are 3 stories.
(i'm a fix anything guy so i hooked it up to my fridge with extra fittings)
 https://www.filterwater.com/pc-121-12-co...idges.aspx

[Raptured]

I started distilling my water since last summer.  Any water that enters our body is distilled.  Even cooking water, I use distilled.
The unit does 1 gal at a time in 4-5 hours.  I'm doing about 2 gal a day. 

The biggest shocker was after the first batch was done, the leftover "residue' in the tub was almost gag-inducing.  Mostly junk from the pipes but the smell is horrid.   That was enough to justify the purchase of the distiller and I've gotten others to start using them too

[BeyondKnowledge]

It is too late for PFAS and micro/nano plastics. We breath them in every day. They are in the rain water falling from the sky. They are in the plants and meat we eat as food. We ether live with them or die with them. There is no other choice anymore.

Avoid what you can but you can't eliminate them.

[UltraBudgie]

I started distilling my water since last summer.  Any water that enters our body is distilled.  Even cooking water, I use distilled.
The unit does 1 gal at a time in 4-5 hours.  I'm doing about 2 gal a day. 

The biggest shocker was after the first batch was done, the leftover "residue' in the tub was almost gag-inducing.  Mostly junk from the pipes but the smell is horrid.   That was enough to justify the purchase of the distiller and I've gotten others to start using them too

That was an eye-opener. Cleaning out the boiling chamber. There's no way filter cartridges can hold all that nastiness, even if they're changed every week. I suppose it's all the water-soluble impurities that the distiller catches but the filter systems pass right through? "Total Dissolved Solids" is kind of a BS measure, when you think about it.

[BeyondKnowledge]

That was an eye-opener. Cleaning out the boiling chamber. There's no way filter cartridges can hold all that nastiness, even if they're changed every week. I suppose it's all the water-soluble impurities that the distiller catches but the filter systems pass right through? "Total Dissolved Solids" is kind of a BS measure, when you think about it.

No, the total dissolved is a measurement of minerals dissolve in the water not filterable particles. The calcium, salts, and metals all are not particles but dissolved evenly throughout the water at the atom level.

Some water filters reduce TDS levels chemically. They are not actually filtering them out but chemically bonding to them.

Distilling removes much more than filtering. And boiling water concentrates contaminates. Only boil long enough to kill biological contaminants when needed. Over boiling makes the water more toxic inorganically.