Water Filter

cruiser · PJNet Newbie Joined: Sep 19, 2006 Posts: 2

What do you think of water filter?. Is it necessary in our home?.

friedice · Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 8:28 pm Post subject: Re: Water Filter

planet69 · Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 4:53 pm Post subject:

How can we gurantee after filtration, the water will be 'purified'!?. I mean, there's gotta b some simple test we can perform, can't we!? ... And no, the muslin test won't do. Sorry friedice...
Anyone care to enlighten 'curious me' !?
What's the best water filters in the market right now!? There're practically hundreds flooding the market
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friedice · Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:34 pm Post subject:

GaryLee · PJNet Starter Joined: Sep 03, 2006 Posts: 69

Hold, hold!

Be careful. If you want a filter, there are a few things that you need to consider. I used to work for a healthcare company back in Singapore and got to know what you need to filter out. And since I'm working at Damansara Jaya (one of the WORST areas in PJ with contaminated water), let me tell you that you need to filter a few things, not just what you can SEE.

1) Sediments: easily solved, and all commercial household filters filter this
2) Chlorine and flouride: Again all commercial household filters get rid of this. Activated carbon is effective and it's cheap, so don't get conned!
3) Trace metals, mercury and other chemical compounds: See if you can get a filter with zeolite
4) Micro organisms and their carcasses: Some filters have certain technologies to kill microorganisms but unfortunately fail to get rid of the dead ones. The easy solution is to always filter your water, then boil it with a kettle. At 121 degrees celsius, all microorganisms die, but it also works at 100 degrees over a minute or so, and kettles do this.

Personally I'd rather recommend (for people NOT renting a place) one of those big bombs you put outside your house, but if you want to have a small filter for one tap only, make sure you change the filter (the thing inside that does the work for you) often.

Don't stinge on this. It's water! You'll be drinking it every day and/or night.

For those of you who'd prefer to drink RO or distilled water, my suggestion is to drink it in addition to drinking filtered water. Either alternate between them (like one week distilled, the other filtered) or drink concurrently (same day, drink distilled at home, filtered water while working).

My 2-sen advice.
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kenny · PJNet Newbie Joined: Sep 21, 2006 Posts: 8

friedice · Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:03 am Post subject:

kenny · PJNet Newbie Joined: Sep 21, 2006 Posts: 8

friedice · Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 1:09 pm Post subject:

Sry if I sounded a little too much. I am just pissed that a lot of enethical companies are making all these baseless claims as to health benefits in marketing their products. Th average healthy person is of course not too concerned with these claims when making their purchase however dont forget that there are actually people with chronic illnesses and will grasp at straws in their efforts to alleviate their condition. I am under the impression that Diamond Water "changes the water molecules thereby making it more healthy" for the people drinking it. hmmm I really don't know.
So back to my earlier question, is this Diamond Water expensive?

planet69 · Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 5:38 pm Post subject:

friedice · Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:32 pm Post subject:

planet69 · Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 4:44 pm Post subject:

whoa...retract the fangs and claws, man....
it's more like WTF with the arm around the shoulder, rather than WTF with the middle finger shown... Very Happy

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friedice · Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 7:55 pm Post subject:

swee1117 · PJNet Newbie Joined: Mar 15, 2007 Posts: 8

Dear All: no matter what kind or what brand of filtration system u used, the best is after filter boile again....

there is no such thing for cure all the ill and make you live 100
years "water" in this world.

all filtration system depand on the media u use. batter filter media batter effectivness you get.

if you found you house filter system able to give you a very good flow, than you can dump aways the system bcoz it does't effect at all. an only effective of filtering water must be membrane filter which give you 0.2 or 0.45 micron size, but with those pore size you need pressure to get the liquid filter.

it is imposible you have a membrane filter which cost u RM50 to RM100 and still give you a very good flow of water trought ours pipe line.

so, what should we do? eigher u like to wait so call diamand filter to filter your water all most only 5 to 10 liter per day with expensive price... or just fine and normal filter?

as i said: no matter what kind or what brand of filtration system u used, the best is after filter and boile again.... it all about water result and the system price!!!!

swee1117 · PJNet Newbie Joined: Mar 15, 2007 Posts: 8

Dear planet69:

to know is you filtration system do work or not, it nothing to do with the system, it all about the media inside u used. that media do the job not the housing.

so your answer is make sure you buy the media with genuin product specification and meterial safety data sheet. get a absolute rating of filter media, not nominal....

those catridge sell at tesco with very cheap price is nominal cartridge, it doest give you gurenttee how many micron it can filter, they might write down 5 microns, but those 50 to 100 micron might not getting filter, same as woven cartridge, those cartridge is imposible to give you absolute rating.

my advice is you can use all those cartridge but please boile the water again.