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RE: Filters?

Comment comment by ldsudduth on 11 March 2008

I have my doubts that disposable charcoal filters are going to succeed...

You're right because that's exactly the method the majority of water (not wastewater, which is predominately activated sludge/ozone) treatment methods are. The other big ones are: UV, Membrane Filtration, and Ozone is also used. None of those address pharmaceuticals.

And, it's not just humans--dairy, cattle, and poultry farmers all have runoff using everything from growth hormones to sexual hormones.

Nothing in our treatment arsenal will help; we have to

I was going to post this as a separate article; but it's really just more on the same topic.

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RE: Filters? by VnutZ :: NR8

Just to hypothesize ... what do you think about desalinization techniques? I wonder if the evaporative process would render just pure H20. Granted, it's not the best thing to drink straight but it could be processed with minerals if necessary. I wonder if that could remove dissolved meds.

It really is amazing to think there are enough meds in the water system to even be noticeable.

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