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Well, got a robocall alert from the water department today with like a 10min message saying that on February 15th water wasn't properly treated at the water treatment facility using the correct amount of chlorine and for the proper amount of time to properly kill bacteria and viruses.

Oh, but they reassured that the water is perfectly safe several times despite this in the message.

But if you do start to feel unwell, or if you have any concerns, talk to your (((doctor))) immediately, particularly if you are old or have medical issues that can become worsened due to consuming poorly-treated water. But they swear that the water is safe and there's nothing to be worried about.

So now they're trying to mass-call people a month after they intentionally chemical nuked the state and are trying to pass off this single day of supposed water being poorly-treated that supposedly happened over two weeks ago and two weeks after the nuke for being what might be to blame for feeling ill.

Well, got a robocall alert from the water department today with like a 10min message saying that on February 15th water wasn't properly treated at the water treatment facility using the correct amount of chlorine and for the proper amount of time to properly kill bacteria and viruses. Oh, but they reassured that the water is perfectly safe several times despite this in the message. But if you do start to feel unwell, or if you have any concerns, talk to your (((doctor))) immediately, particularly if you are old or have medical issues that can become worsened due to consuming poorly-treated water. But they swear that the water is safe and there's nothing to be worried about. So now they're trying to mass-call people a month after they intentionally chemical nuked the state and are trying to pass off this single day of supposed water being poorly-treated that supposedly happened over two weeks ago and two weeks after the nuke for being what might be to blame for feeling ill.

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[–] • 1 pt

Are there any good resources on this? Started looking into it but felt immediately overwhelmed like I was getting fleeced

[–] • 3 pts (edited )

Get a Berkey with a Fluoride filter right away. Filter all of your drinking and cooking water through it, including water you use to boil things. Keep a few gallon jugs filled with tap water next to the Berkey so it's easier to keep it full. You occasionally have to prime the filters and scrub off the surface of the carbon filters, but that's about it.

Later on you can upgrade to an undersink reverse osmosis filter, but the Berkeys are extremely economical to run and last a long time before you need new filters. They also work using gravity, so there's no worry about needing electricity to pump the water through a filter.The big ass carbon filters in the Berkey will strip out all but a miniscule amount of volatile chlorides like Vinyl Chloride along with other nasty stuff. The white add-on filters trap Fluoride and a few other toxins.

[–] • 1 pt

Plus one on the Berkey. Every household should have a charcoal gravity filter system, at minimum, particularly as the accoutrements of a functional society continue to devolve and dissipate. Spring for additional sets of filters to speed up your filtering time.

[–] • 1 pt

Not sure, I do know that the whole house filters don't come with all the same capabilities of an under sink model. Much as I hate to admit it probably the best place to find advice is to do a Joogle search with "reddit" in the search and see if you can find a thread of people who have bought them talking about it before.

[–] • 1 pt

Yeah the whole house filters are where I got overwhelmed. It feels like it should be more economical in the long run but maybe I'm over thinking it

[–] • 1 pt

It would be but that's mostly just because it doesn't filter as much as the under sink ones. I was planning on getting one for the house mainly to avoid nasty shit in the sink and shower/bath water and also to be able to make filtered ice with the fridge (which needs repaired anyway though). So if I got a house one it would be to supplement rather than replace the drinking water one, though given how much extra water it takes I could understand wanting to cut that down.