What is going on with my water filters?

submitted by LollygagSunshine from self.AskSaidIt

I have three Water Filters:

1: Clearly Filtered

2: Zero Water

3: Vevor Water Distiller

The Vevor is new.

I was doing Clearly Filtered ---> Zero Water Filter. With the Total Dissolved Solids water meter, I was getting 0 - 5 tds reading. The tap water before filtration was 140-ish.

After adding the Vevor water distiller: it now reads 110 total tds. Its like parts per million.

TL;DR: it appears my water is getting more toxic after distilling.

Remarks apprecieated. What is going on?

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[–]Canbot 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Your vevor has a carbon "filter" at the nozzle that is activated charcoal in a bag. Bits of charcoal are being released into your water. Should be harmless. But the brain damage has already been done considering you are trying to filter water that is already as clean as you can measure.

If you want cleaner water get a RODI system. Unless you have a water meter.

You can also just run the distiller first, then the zero water filter. Or run it through that filter again. But you are getting silly at this point. Use the distiller to brew beer like a real man. And get a reef tank to justify the RO system. If anyone asks the filter is for the fish.

[–]Musky 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

If you want cleaner water get a RODI system. Unless you have a water meter

Is that because you're throwing a certain amount of water away constantly? My standalone RO unit has a 3:1 drain, which seems common among standalone units. Only 1/3 of the water is used, the other 2/3 is waste.

I wasn't sure if that's particular to standalone units or the method itself.

[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I'm pretty sure they all do it, but I'm not an expert. Certainly all the consumer grade stuff will because it would get really expensive to try to save water and then deal with the concentrated contaminants. You can always divert the "wastewater" into a garden.

[–]Musky 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I'm not so sure wastewater needs quotations in my case, my tank after filtration has an oddly sweet smell to it. I've heard of water tasting sweet from limestone, but smelling sweet? That's something funky.

I don't worry about tossing it, every time I flush my toliet it's 5 gallons and then every friggin bottle water company and plenty of other industries are using water like it's going out of style.

I think it's weird we put water conservation on regular people.

And it's still relatively cheap, although I do remember when water was free.

[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Lead tastes sweet. Have you ever thought about getting it tested?

[–]Musky 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Maybe I should. I rely on the water tests they do at the local MUD and they look okay... but who knows between here and there what happens to the water.

Now lead tastes sweet, but I don't think it smells sweet.

[–]gardella 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I agree with @Canbot, don't worry about it. Use the distiller to make some alcohol, make sure it's over 100 proof, then drink that instead of water.

[–]iamonlyoneman 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

TDS != poison

you've got a filter that is shedding solids into your water. Send it to a lab and find out what's in it.

[–]MagicMike 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Don’t buy anything from China, ever. It’s all toxic meant to kill us.

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

"It can effectively dissolve solids, VOCs and other impurities, providing you the pure distilled water to drink at your leisure."

It reads like Vevor dissolves solids, volatile organic compounds and "other stuff".

Which if true, would explain the increase in tds.

Probably another example of chinese made brands trying to kill you.

[–]package 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Sounds like you've got a snake oil leak

[–]Gravi 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (13 children)

That's why I don't drink tap water, I gather my water from a source, filters won't save you.

[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (12 children)

But they literally will. You can filter out everything.

Meanwhile fracking has fracked all the aquifers and chemtrails are coming down in the rain

[–]Jiminy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

Just big stuff. Molecular stuff like fluoride gets thru the filters.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

Incorrecto. RODI can filter out fluoride.

[–]Jiminy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

They say so but common sense says otherwise. H2O wouldn't make it thru.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

The deionizer separates out individual ions.

By your logic all of that stuff is in all water everywhere because nothing can ever get it out. So why drink contaminated ground water when you can at least get cleaner filtered water?

[–]Jiminy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

That's not my logic because I'm not saying it doesn't get anything out

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

If the ground can filter it out why would a literal filter that is engineered to do it, built in a special factory where objects like that filter can be created, not be able to do it? Man has far exceeded nature in his ability to create marvels.

[–]Jiminy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Who said ground could

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

What makes water from aquifers clean?

[–]Musky 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Huh, that is very odd. I am not sure. This is sort of a nightmare situation for me where my TDS reading goes up and I have no idea why.

Did you clean the water distiller as per manufacturer directions?

[–]Mcheetah 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You've been on this site for one month and the first question you ask is about water filters? "Kinda sus," as the Zoomers say.

In case you're not a troll, you should know this site is the anti-Reddit. Very much free speech, and because of that, you get a lot of trolls and legitimate racists (not the woke "everything is problematic" accusations; real actual hateful people) on here. Just in case you're a Normie who found this place by mistake. It's not for Normies.

[–]SMCAB 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Or short people.