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07-02-2014, 03:21 PM | #1 |
Don't Litter Spay&Neuter Donating Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: So Cal
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| drinking water level Not sure if my water quality tester is working right...or our filters are all wacked! Tap water (from kitchen faucet) = 424ppm Water filter from a machine called Smart 3000 = 418ppm (WThell?!) Water from our new fridge which goes through a filter = 394 (better than the Smart 3000??!) Water from our fridge, filtered through Brita (for the doggies) = 337 (so they've been drinking better water?? but it's still not ideal!) 0-50 is supposed to be ideal drinking water & 500+ is US EPA's max containment level. @ our condo, the water tested 2-3 via a filter water machine called coway. Here @ our new home, it's basically tap water via filter! Why?
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07-02-2014, 10:14 PM | #2 |
www.yorkierescue.com Donating Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Las Vegas & Orange County
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| I have no idea what what you're talking about. We have soft water here(machine), but no idea what the numbers are. All I know is Uni, my super itchy baby, is way scratching less now that we give her baths with soft water.
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07-03-2014, 11:19 AM | #3 | |
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| I went to walmart to get some Gerber PURE water for the doggies & some drinking water for me. Tested it & Gerber water = 90ppm (guessing bc they add minerals for taste?). Gerber water + Brita = 52. Drinking water = 2 where it should be. I feel sick just thinking that we were drinking tap water! Smart 3000 machine is crap.... Quote:
Drinking water is supposed to be 0-50. Little to no contaminants &/or metals in it. Our filtered drinking water tested 418-394, we were basically drinking tap water ever since we moved here! TG nobody got sick. This is what I have to test the water: TDS-EZ Water Quality Tester - HM Digital http://www.tdsmeter.com/what-is Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) are the total amount of mobile charged ions, including minerals, salts or metals dissolved in a given volume of water, expressed in units of mg per unit volume of water (mg/L), also referred to as parts per million (ppm). TDS is directly related to the purity of water and the quality of water purification systems and affects everything that consumes, lives in, or uses water, whether organic or inorganic, whether for better or for worse. "Dissolved solids" refer to any minerals, salts, metals, cations or anions dissolved in water. This includes anything present in water other than the pure water (H20) molecule and suspended solids. (Suspended solids are any particles/substances that are neither dissolved nor settled in the water, such as wood pulp.) Some dissolved solids come from organic sources such as leaves, silt, plankton, and industrial waste and sewage. Other sources come from runoff from urban areas, road salts used on street during the winter, and fertilizers and pesticides used on lawns and farms. Dissolved solids also come from inorganic materials such as rocks and air that may contain calcium bicarbonate, nitrogen, iron phosphorous, sulfur, and other minerals. Many of these materials form salts, which are compounds that contain both a metal and a nonmetal. Salts usually dissolve in water forming ions. Ions are particles that have a positive or negative charge. Water may also pick up metals such as lead or copper as they travel through pipes used to distribute water to consumers.
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07-03-2014, 11:30 AM | #4 |
www.yorkierescue.com Donating Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Las Vegas & Orange County
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| Omg wow!!
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