water filters - Hugh

[Guest guest]

Hugh - what do you do with all the waste water? I know some people

use it in their garden and flush their toilet with it. Any other

ideas? It's a pain to collect the waste water, unless you have some

type of gizmo set up where it would put it into some kind of a holding

tank.

 

Carol

 

 

, Hugh Ramsdell

<hughman73 wrote:

>

> www.pwgazette.com Pure Water Products in Texas-makers of reverse

osmosis and other filtering systems. I have one of their RO systems

for about $197-makes 50 gallons a day AND removes fluoride.

> Hugh

[Guest guest]

At 07:46 PM 4/9/2008, you wrote:

Now, I'm curious - wouldn't what the filter do is filter out particles of

whatever? Why would there be waste water? Wouldn't the stuff be caught by

a filter, which would either be cleaned or replaced? Kind of like what

one does when one has a fish tank. The waste from the fish and excess

food gets filtered out, but the water keeps recirculating. I realize that

with a water filter like the one below, the water wouldn't recirculate,

but I though it would just flow through whatever filter there

is..........it's different than that? Oh - just occurred to me - if water

has bad stuff in it, and isn't good to drink, would it still be good to

put on plants? Wouldn't the soil and the plants soak up the bad stuff -

thereby giving it back to you, just in another form? I could see maybe

using for toilets and such, if you had a septic tank which ought to catch

whatever......

Lynn

 

Hugh - what do you do with all

the waste water? I know some people

use it in their garden and flush their toilet with it. Any other

ideas? It's a pain to collect the waste water, unless you have some

type of gizmo set up where it would put it into some kind of a

holding

tank.

Carol

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, Hugh Ramsdell

<hughman73 wrote:

>

>

www.pwgazette.com

Pure Water Products in Texas-makers of reverse

osmosis and other filtering systems. I have one of their RO systems

for about $197-makes 50 gallons a day AND removes fluoride.

> Hugh

[Guest guest]

I just waste the waste water down the drain. I don't pay for my water so that's what I do. I'm a paraplegic so I don't have the ability to do something fancier or conservation-conscious. An RO strains the contaminates out of the water you keep and concentrates the contaminates into a stream of waste water which usually goes down the drain. This process wastes water but provides me with a product to swallow which is more to my liking. HughLynn Ward <lynnward wrote: At 07:46 PM 4/9/2008,

you wrote:Now, I'm curious - wouldn't what the filter do is filter out particles of whatever? Why would there be waste water? Wouldn't the stuff be caught by a filter, which would either be cleaned or replaced? Kind of like what one does when one has a fish tank. The waste from the fish and excess food gets filtered out, but the water keeps recirculating. I realize that with a water filter like the one below, the water wouldn't recirculate, but I though it would just flow through whatever filter there is..........it's different than that? Oh - just occurred to me - if water has bad stuff in it, and isn't good to drink, would it still be good to put on plants? Wouldn't the soil and the plants soak up the bad stuff - thereby giving it back to you, just in another form? I could see maybe using for toilets and such, if you had a septic tank which ought to catch whatever......Lynn Hugh - what do

you do with all the waste water? I know some peopleuse it in their garden and flush their toilet with it. Any otherideas? It's a pain to collect the waste water, unless you have sometype of gizmo set up where it would put it into some kind of a holdingtank.Carol , Hugh Ramsdell<hughman73 wrote:>> www.pwgazette.com Pure Water Products in Texas-makers of reverseosmosis and other filtering systems. I have one of their RO systemsfor about $197-makes 50 gallons a day AND removes fluoride.> Hugh

[Guest guest]

I think I read somewhere that there is about 2-3 gallons of waste

water per gallon of good water. RO is the only process that takes out

the pharmeceuticals from the water (so I've been told, i don't have

any research to point to).

 

Carol

 

> Lynn Ward <lynnward wrote:

> At 07:46 PM 4/9/2008, you wrote:

>

> Now, I'm curious - wouldn't what the filter do is filter out

particles of whatever?

[Guest guest]

At 04:10 AM 4/10/2008, you wrote:

Thanks........I guess I'm going to have to actually check out the filters

to find out how it works. DH and I were talking about it last night, and

I couldn't figure out how they would expel the waste water........I

thought of a coupe of ways, but they didn't seem practical. Probably, the

way the filter does it, is so simple it never occurred to me......Don't

really know that much about water filters - just some of the less

expensive designs.....

Thanks for responding - I'll have to check them out...........

Lynn

I just waste the waste water

down the drain. I don't pay for my water so that's what I do. I'm a

paraplegic so I don't have the ability to do something fancier or

conservation-conscious. An RO strains the contaminates out of the water

you keep and concentrates the contaminates into a stream of waste water

which usually goes down the drain. This process wastes water but provides

me with a product to swallow which is more to my liking.

Hugh

Lynn Ward <lynnward wrote:

 

 

At 07:46 PM 4/9/2008, you wrote:

Now, I'm curious - wouldn't what the filter do is filter out

particles of whatever? Why would there be waste water? Wouldn't the stuff

be caught by a filter, which would either be cleaned or replaced? Kind of

like what one does when one has a fish tank. The waste from the fish and

excess food gets filtered out, but the water keeps recirculating. I

realize that with a water filter like the one below, the water wouldn't

recirculate, but I though it would just flow through whatever filter

there is..........it's different than that? Oh - just occurred to me - if

water has bad stuff in it, and isn't good to drink, would it still be

good to put on plants? Wouldn't the soil and the plants soak up the bad

stuff - thereby giving it back to you, just in another form? I could see

maybe using for toilets and such, if you had a septic tank which ought to

catch whatever......

Lynn

 

 

Hugh - what do you do with all the waste water? I know some

people

use it in their garden and flush their toilet with it. Any other

ideas? It's a pain to collect the waste water, unless you have

some

type of gizmo set up where it would put it into some kind of a

holding

tank.

Carol

[Guest guest]

My RO screws onto the kitchen faucet and has a two water lines coming out of it; one which is waste water and one which is the usable water. Although the faucet may be used with the RO attached, I usually run my water pitchers for the day and then disconnect it from the tap. HughLynn Ward <lynnward wrote: At 04:10 AM 4/10/2008, you wrote:Thanks........I guess I'm going to have to actually check out the filters to find out how it works. DH and I were talking about it last

night, and I couldn't figure out how they would expel the waste water........I thought of a coupe of ways, but they didn't seem practical. Probably, the way the filter does it, is so simple it never occurred to me......Don't really know that much about water filters - just some of the less expensive designs.....Thanks for responding - I'll have to check them out...........Lynn I just waste the waste water down the drain. I don't pay for my water so that's what I do. I'm a paraplegic so I don't have the ability to do something fancier or conservation-conscious. An RO strains the contaminates out of the water you keep and concentrates the contaminates into a stream of waste water which usually goes down the drain. This process wastes water but provides me with a product to swallow which is more to my liking.HughLynn Ward <lynnward (AT) earthlink (DOT) net>

wrote: At 07:46 PM 4/9/2008, you wrote: Now, I'm curious - wouldn't what the filter do is filter out particles of whatever? Why would there be waste water? Wouldn't the stuff be caught by a filter, which would either be cleaned or replaced? Kind of like what one does when one has a fish tank. The waste from the fish and excess food gets filtered out, but the water keeps recirculating. I realize that with a water filter like the one below, the water wouldn't recirculate, but I though it would just flow through whatever filter there is..........it's different than that? Oh - just occurred to me - if water has bad stuff in it, and isn't good to drink, would it still be good to put on plants? Wouldn't the soil and the plants soak up the bad stuff - thereby giving it back to you, just in another form? I could see maybe using for toilets and such, if you had a septic tank which ought to catch whatever...... Lynn Hugh - what do you do with all the waste water? I know some people use it in their garden and flush their toilet with it. Any other ideas? It's a pain to collect the waste water, unless you have some type of gizmo set up where it would put it into some kind of a holding tank. Carol