This is What Your Tap Water Looks Like

We examine the composition and state of tap water with a brief look at my water filtration 'overflow' tray. To break it down, this video offers a glimpse into just how putrid a lot of the nation's tap water truly is. I am using a 12 stage filtration device that has a hookup to the tap water from my area. This is after only one month and a few days of letting the tray collect build up.

The system currently produces around 3-4 gallons or so per day, but can make up to around 7. It is widely known that tap water on average contains antibiotics, birth control residue (especially in major cities), antidepressant residue, fecal matter, urine, chlorine, heavy metals, and an array of other contaminants. To be clear, I'm actually not selling a water filtration device. In fact, I make zero dollars when you purchase one. That said, yes, I do believe you should get one.

As for the right kind of filter, it's important to get the best quality you can but anything is really better than nothing. To start, you can purchase an over or under the counter carbon or reverse osmosis unit. If you do choose reverse osmosis, it's important to remember that you should resupply the minerals back into the water that are removed from the filtration process. You can do this quite simply using Himalayan sea salt, apple cider vinegar, or a mineral filter. It's relatively inexpensive using the first two, and can be done by adding a few pinches of the salt or a cap full of apple cider vinegar into a gallon or so.

Once again, though, you should really buy anything at all if necessary. Even something like a shower filter, which doesn't filter our fluoride unless it has a reverse osmosis unit inside or operates from a whole house filtration level, is a great way to protect yourself from problematic substances. Chlorine, for example, can really take a toll on your skin health.

For an in depth description please checkout my accompanying article here: http://naturalsociety.com/this-is-wha...

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[mimocid]

it's called an "overflow" I.E. Holds excess water. Standing water = bacteria/fungal growth.

This exact stuff collects under my compressor for my fridge in it's drip tray. While I am aware that tap water is infact disgusting, this just isn't quite the case with what's going on here, as the video claims.

Reverse Osmosis for the win

[shadyzz954]

Are you REALLY this fucking stupid?

1000 years ago they didn't have water treatment facilities where they intentionally put lithium, chlorine, arsenic, acrylamide, and the list of about 200 other toxic chemicals they put into public water.

The human body IS durable, but it's durable to the toxins that it's bombarded with NATURALLY, not man-made.

You fucking CRETIN, you and your "god" can go take a long walk off a short pier.

[Mike Black]

You die like the rest of the sheeple!



[bakersfieldmusicnow]

sooo..what to do IF you cant afford filter and need water.??.

[Brown86Town]

Bisphenol A

[kamikaz6]

any idea if its that bad in Sydney, Australia?

[mike hendershot]

I Believe Those Black Dots Are Particles Of Activated Charcoal Used To Filter Water... ?

[arkivx0]

This guy is a moron...most of it is bacteria/mold growth that happened at his house...

[JohnNNJ]

In a lot of instances it states right on the label "For low sodium diets."I have consumed it on a number of occasions. Usually when working outside in the summer and the only water left was the gallons of distilled we had on hand for decontamination. I would not drink it all the time but I do still use it sometimes as a mix for dried/powdered bases. You can remineralize the water by adding several grains of rice per gallon.

[JohnNNJ]

That could just be carbon from the filter.