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--Boundary_(ID_ranDPqvclE/Cmmlam+xDDw) Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable I have a possible stupid question: isn't there some environmental =20 reason now to disfavour Brita filters? Is it the BPA scare =20 (bisphenol A)? Perhaps a year or more ago, my wife Pat gave up her =20 longtime use of the Brita. What was the reason?? Cheers from Jim in =20= Wolfville Begin forwarded message: > From: Roland McCormick <roland.mccormick@ns.sympatico.ca> > Date: September 27, 2009 11:20:33 AM ADT > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Bottled Water > Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > > Hello Paul - > I found your article on water most interesting. I grew up in =20 > Bear River - all hills that are a mixture of ledges (lots of =20 > fossils) and gravel. I think almost everywhere there is more than =20 > enough gravel to filter the water, the result being pure fresh =20 > drinking water (untested) everywhere. > When I moved here to Barrington I soon found the water needed =20= > to be filtered. I asked my plumber what he would suggest, and he =20 > installed a Brita filter. According to your article it is even =20 > better than I thought it was. > > Roland. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Paul S. Boyer > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 8:41 AM > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Bottled Water > > More on Drinking Water > > The iron problem is almost universal in water of the province. In =20 > the granite area, the dug wells have a tendency (almost a =20 > certainty) to have bacterial contamination, particularly if there =20 > are other house, or ducks and geese around. The drilled wells have =20= > uranium and arsenic from weathering of the granite, if you are in a =20= > granite terrain. > > We have a dug well, over 100 years old. We have a water softener =20 > to handle some of the iron. (I wish that this were not necessary, =20 > because water-softening adds salt to the groundwater, and costs for =20= > the salt, which one must haul in every so often.) Then there is a =20 > particulate filter to remove some more of the iron. Next comes a =20 > UV light which kills all the bacteria. The unit must be kept clean =20= > so that the UV can get through the special glass to fry the =20 > unwanted organisms, and bulb must be changed every year. (Said =20 > bulb costs about $120 with tax.) Finally, we have a reverse-=20 > osmotic filter, which takes out everything which is left, and gives =20= > really pure, clear water. > > Bottled water in the small containers is terribly expensive, =20 > compared to the real market-value of water. When you buy bottled =20 > water, you are mainly paying for handling, and the bottle. A liter =20= > of water from a city water supply is actually worth only a few =20 > hundredths of a cent. Of course, one's perspective changes if =20 > dying of thirst! > > The drilled wells require special filters to remove U and As. =20 > Reverse osmosis would be good. I have a neighbor who uses Brita=AE =20= > filters, and finds (by actual testing) that they remove 99% of the =20 > offending elements. > > > --Boundary_(ID_ranDPqvclE/Cmmlam+xDDw) Content-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> I have a possible stupid question: isn't there some environmental reason = now to disfavour Brita filters? Is it the BPA scare (bisphenol A)? = Perhaps a year or more ago, my wife Pat gave up her longtime use = of the Brita. What was the reason?? Cheers from Jim in = Wolfville<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: = </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica">Roland McCormick <<a = href=3D"mailto:roland.mccormick@ns.sympatico.ca">roland.mccormick@ns.sympa= tico.ca</a>></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">September 27, 2009 11:20:33 AM = ADT</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a></font>= </div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Re: [NatureNS] Bottled = Water</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a></font>= </div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: = rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: = normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: = normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: = 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><font face=3D"Arial" = si