Re: water quality
Robert Allen (Robert.Allen@Eng.Sun.COM)
Thu, 4 Mar 93 22:22:37 GMT
>>I've been contemplating buying a reverse osmosis water purifyer, but
>>learned this morning that my local water (EBMUD) has extremely low
>>dissolved solids - on the order of 25 to 50 PPM. I've been using tap
>>water for a couple of years (I let it stand overnight to get rid of
>>the chlorine) without killing anything, but now that my collection is
>>expanding , I figured I should investigate this a little more. Do any
>>of you use RO units? What do these things spec for output water
>>quality? Anybody else use water out of the tap in the San Francisco
>>Bay area?
"local wisdom" has it that water from the Hetch Hetchy reservoir
is CP safe. In Palo Alto we have that, so I use tap water with
no problems. Last year Palo Alto started mixing in well water, which
was horrible, so I started using bottled water.
I think if you've been using tap water for a couple years you're
probably OK. Geoff Wong in Palo Alto also uses tap water,
although he has a device with which he can check the water
quality, and he also has a water filter which he hooks up if the
water is indicated of being not pure enough for CP.
Robert