Bottled Water Good or Bad?

[lmdesade]

YOu can get R.O. water from a machine for around .25 a gallon. It's not that expensive.

[evlme2]

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These machines are at almost every albertsons supermarkets here in Florida, 30 cents/gallon. The best water i've ever used.

[Opie Yutts]

It said multi stage filtration. That might be RO.

[Bulster]

My two cents:
Bottled water essentially come in two varieties. The one with minerals added (like calcium/magnesium) and the one without (typically pure reverse osmosis water). For example the 25 cent per gallon machines you will find outside grocery stores are invariably just pure RO water and by far your best deal, but I guess you would need CalMag etc. The bottled water you buy inside the store will often (not always) contain minerals but it will say on the bottle (like "minerals added for flavor") but those are way too expensive and not worth it at several dollars per gallon usually.

[Opie Yutts]

Thanks Opie never heard of that before, I will look into this item.

I should have been more specific. Chlorine neutralizer is a liquid and you add 1 teaspoon per gallon or something like that. I think most hydro stores have this. on-line or otherwise.

[Big len]

Thanks opie

[bongerstonerd00d]

R.O. units are not expensive. 100-150 bucks for a 3 stage does not seem unreasonable to me. PLUS, I aint gotta haul water all the time.

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There is a 3 stage, 40 GPD for 126.00. 40 gallons at .25/gallon = 10bucks last I ciphered it out. Seems like it would not take me long to recoup 126 bucks. 504 gallons to be exact.

Its Sunday night, lights on, rez is low, its 3 A.M. and I cant sleep and get in the "gardening mood", but now, I hafta run to the supermarket to buy water ?............ah shit, gotta be a better way.

Who said this was a cheap hobby anyways?


Keepin it green,
b0nger

[Opie Yutts]

Those look like the same kind of filters you get at HD for your water heater or whole-house filters, or irrigation filters. I wonder if you did a little research, you could end up with the same thing for less money by visiting home labyrinth. On second thought I'll bet they also have RO filters there. Duh.