I mean straw, as in similar to "hay"? Thanks!

I am staying in a hot city for my job pourpose. This is a city wihc is too hot and it is surrounded by hill area. I want to use safe drinking water. If i purchase mineral water it will be too costly. I cannot maintain my expenses by using it. My office is having a cooler but it does not have an acuaguard machine to clean the water. I am used to drink clean sweet water. But because of my job I have to stay here and use this water. I am not satisfied from this water. I doubd I may get a disease which may cause my testifcles becoming fat. Which is generally happen in few areas. Can any body advise me about the precautions to be taken in this regard.

I would like to perform a test to see if my Brita Filter cartridge is still effective. What would be your suggestion in designing an experiment to test the water filtered by these cartridge?

I have access to use microscope, petri dishes, incubator, x-ray diffraction machine, gas chromatography, pH meter, and regular chemical experiment equipments.

thanks in advance

I’m using a water filter for drinking which consist of a four stage catridge: activated carbon, silica sand, zeolite and mineral sand. Lately, I notice very small particles sentiment at the bottom of the mineral pot where the filtered water is stored. I believe this is from the filter catridge as there are large pores where the particles may pass through. Does this render the water unsafe for consumption?

I keep buying new water filters because the age is up on them, like the light starts turning red after so many months, but actually I don’t hardly ever use them, so if I don’t use them regularly should I have to change them according to the lights and guild lines? I don’t want to keep spending money on them every three months, if I can help it! Please Help..

I want to buy a filter of some sort to filter the tap water for drinking purposes. It’s an old nyc apartment with a shared kitchen, so I don’t want to be installing anything especially since I’ll be moving out next year. What’s the best way to filter the water?

why is that. it looks like a white dust in the water. If you let it set for a few minutes it will almost completely dissolve. I’d like to know what that is, and if its bad to drink.

the water filter is supposed to be really sophisticated, and be of better quality than arrowhead bottled water.

I just moved into an apartment and the water is awful. When it first comes from the faucet, it tastes fine but smells like metal or rust, but then after leaving it out for a while, it tastes metallic. Would getting a faucet or water pitcher filter give me safe drinking water? Should I start buying bottled water instead of a filter?
This is in Richardson, TX

I only need a small water filter, counter top. I don’t know why I can’t make one, but it has been difficult to find information, instruction or ingredients.

I would think that carbon would be one ingredient. I want the water to taste better, and remove the bad minerals, and organisms. I don’t want to remove the good minerals.

I live in a high rise that is about 60 years old, and it uses city water. The city is on the shore of Lake Michigan.

I really don’t want to put a lot of money into buying a counter top water filter system, since I’m on Social Security, and have to cut costs as many ways as possible.

Some things I’ve learned in my searches, is that the carbon can become contaminated over time, and should be changed periodicly. I also learned that batting below the carbon can remove small pieces of the carbon. But, are there other ingredients I need, and how do I build it?

I have hard water with lots of iron in it. We have a water softener to combat this. If we didn’t have the softener, our water would be orange coming out of our faucets. It’s not that good to be drinking water with the softener salt in it, especially now that I’m pregnant. What would be the best water filter for me? Should I get one that attaches to the faucet or a pitcher with a filter?