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It may look like you are draining the juices out of some gigantic white insect carcass, but underneath the bizarre looking hood, this Ovopur water dispenser from Aquaovo is serious business. It is completely gravity fed, with a recyclable, layered cartridge filled with KDF 55, activated charcoal, microporous bioceramics and quartz crystal to remove all of the impurities. But do you really want everything filtered out of municipal water? That's a free buzz you would be missing out on my friends! Pricing information has not been announced. Check out the huge filter after the break.
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Ovopur Water Dispenser Filters Out All of the Fun
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Be even nicer if the bottom part was unglaze so it could cool through evaporation, like the old water containers.
Filtering through quartz? Wouldn't that filter out massive amounts of nothing?
You ain't seen nothing until you've seen what happens with a filter of granite chips...
You do realize these "filters" really don't do jack, they're just there to make you "feel good" about yourself.
And really, tap water is not that evil, you need to be exposed to bad things in small quantities so your system can be prepared for bad things in large quantities.
Oh, and this thing looks like a giant pocket rocket to me.
If you're on reliably tested tap water, with newer piping, that's the case. There are still a lot of buildings that don't match that; lots of us aren't on city water, or have piping that's from the days where lead or poorly treated steel seemed like a brilliant idea.
My workplace has water that doesn't even come out clear.
@Lupison:
Same with cigarettes, if one believes all the propaganda about how dangerous they are.
@gattsuru:
"My workplace has water that doesn't even come out clear."
I grew up on well water, and I hardly ever get sick. I'm pretty sure i could stroll into TJ and drink the water there, too. It doesn't look like much say, in the shower, but fill up a white bucket of the stuff and it becomes obvious that it isn't water, it's dirt tea.
@Lupison:
Tap water isn't that evil...huh!!????
From MSNBC.
Tainted drinking water kept under wraps
Many researchers fear public would misunderstand, overreact to disclosure
updated 1 hour, 36 minutes ago
When water providers find pharmaceuticals in drinking water, they rarely tell the public. When researchers make the same discoveries, they usually don't identify the cities involved.
There are plenty of reasons offered for the secrecy: concerns about national security, fears of panic, a feeling that the public will not understand - even confidentiality agreements.
"That's a really sensitive subject," said Elaine Archibald, executive director of California Urban Water Agencies, an 11-member organization comprised of the largest water providers in California.
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She said many customers "don't know how to interpret the information. They hear something has been detected in source water and drinking water, and that's cause for alarm - just because it's there."
As The Associated Press documented in a five-month investigation, drinking water provided to at least 41 million people living in 24 major metropolitan areas has tested positive for trace amounts of pharmaceuticals.
Reports don't reveal all
Most Americans probably think they have a good idea of what's being detected in their water. Federal law requires water providers to distribute annual "consumer confidence reports" that reveal levels of regulated contaminants. Providers are not, however, required to tell people if they find a contaminant that is not on a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency list. And there are no pharmaceuticals on the EPA list.
In Philadelphia, the water department has not informed its 1.5 million users that traces of 56 pharmaceuticals or their byproducts - like the active ingredients in drugs to treat depression, anxiety, high cholesterol, fever and pain - have been detected in the drinking water, and that 63 pharmaceuticals or byproducts had been found in the city's source watersheds.
Initially balking at the AP's request to provide test results, Philadelphia Water Department spokeswoman Laura Copeland said, "It would be irresponsible to communicate to the public about this issue, as doing so would only generate questions that scientific research has not yet answered. We don't want to create the perception where people would be alarmed."
New York City water officials declined repeated requests for an interview and waited more than three months before participating in an AP survey, supplying information only after being informed that every other major city in the nation had cooperated.
The AP learned that the New York state health department and the U.S. Geological Survey detected heart medicine, infection fighters, estrogen, anti-convulsants, a mood stabilizer and the active ingredient in an anti-anxiety medication in the city's watershed upstate. And the city's Department of Environmental Protection ultimately said that it does not test its downstate drinking water.
Officials in Arlington, Texas, said pharmaceuticals had been detected in source water but wouldn't say which ones or in what amounts, citing security concerns. Julie Hunt, director of water utilities, said to provide the public with information regarding "which, if any, pharmaceuticals or emerging compounds make it through the treatment process can assist someone who wishes to cause harm through the water supply."
Mayor Robert Cluck later said a trace amount of one pharmaceutical had survived the treatment process and had been detected in drinking water. He declined to name the drug, saying identifying it could cause a terrorist to intentionally release more of it, causing significant harm to residents.
"I don't want to take that chance," Cluck said. "There is no public hazard and I don't want to create one."
Ron Rhodes, water treatment plant supervisor in Emporia, Kan., explained why he wouldn't disclose whether his community's source water or drinking water had been tested for pharmaceuticals. "Well, it's because of 9/11. We want everybody to guess."
How, Rhodes was asked, could it endanger anyone to know if Emporia's water has been screened for traces of pharmaceutical compounds?
"We're not putting out more information than we have to put out," said Rhodes. "How about that?"
Not too bright Lupison...
WHAT??
OK, not to throw more fuel on the fire, but I worked in water and wastewater for a number of years. If a terrorist wanted to take out a neighborhood, they could. Taking out a city would be much harder. Can it be done? Sure, but they wouldn't kill them all. After the first few hundred died, the water system would be turned off pretty quick. Makes you feel good about living next to the water plant now doesn't it?
@Lupison: I've said this to people here before and taken a lot of shit because there's simply a LOT of urban mythology out there regarding the human immune system, but:
the adult immune system is formed and experiences only very minor changes. Adult immune systems can learn cold viruses, and a few people who didn't catch them when they were young, might form immunity to some viruses and bacteria, but otherwise, the human immune system as present in adults benefits little from exposure. Anti-bacterial soaps, whether or not they're worth a shit, will not hurt your immune system down the road. Neither will, water filters or listerine or anything else that kills bacteria.
If you were right, all people in third world nations who died from water born ailments due to a lack of potable water would be alive with super immune systems. Also, immune systems can't fight chemical poisoning, as far as I know. That's the biggest worry in developed nations and the biggest seller of domestic water filters.
Ripper: Have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water?
Mandrake: Well, I can't say I have.
Ripper: Vodka, that's what they drink, isn't it? Never water?
Mandrake: Well, I-I believe that's what they drink, Jack, yes.
Ripper: On no account will a Commie ever drink water, and not without good reason.
Mandrake: Oh, eh, yes. I, uhm, can't quite see what you're getting at, Jack.
Ripper: Water, that's what I'm getting at, water. Mandrake, water is the source of all life. Seven-tenths of this earth's surface is water. Why, do you realize that seventy percent of you is water?
Mandrake: Uh, uh, Good Lord!
Ripper: And as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water to replenish our precious bodily fluids.
Mandrake: Yes. (he begins to chuckle nervously)
Ripper: Are you beginning to understand?
Mandrake: Yes. (more laughter)
Ripper: Mandrake. Mandrake, have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rain water, and only pure-grain alcohol?
Mandrake: Well, it did occur to me, Jack, yes.
Ripper: Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation. Fluoridation of water?
Mandrake: Uh? Yes, I-I have heard of that, Jack, yes. Yes.
Ripper: Well, do you know what it is?
Mandrake: No, no I don't know what it is, no.
Ripper: Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?
It looks like a very happy snowman!
You can drink a lot of the stuff at my work, if you want, and probably not get sick. Lead poisoning from old solder from before people realized antimony-tin was a better idea generally doesn't show up fast. The lead-tin piping solder was only really phased out less than thirty years ago, long after a lot of people's houses were built. You'd not get sick at all until you ended up with blue gums, neural issues, and inability to pass a wrist drop test, and that could take weeks.
I'm not kidding -- there's a lot of bad quality piping around. It's probably not going to let the various germs get you, but I'd avoid the lead poisoning and rust-colored water myself.
Ew... you did not just paste an entire MSNBC article as if it were fact.
Anyway... going so far as to say that tap water will kill you might be extreme, but to say a filter does nothing is stupid. My town has very high quality tap water, but I still need a Brita to get it to taste right. so it's doing something.
And if anyone says it's in my head I will track you down and punch you in the teeth.
Those things do filter out crap, a Pur faucet filter in an area with "clean" water still gets so much heavy particulate matter that it actually feels different going down.
I'm on the New York City water supply, which they have stubbornly refused to filter. Every time I drink from the tap, it tastes like someone decided to pour metal shavings into my glass.
What is worse is all the towns in the Catskills can't have a sewage system. They have septic tanks. Poorly maintained septic tanks.
If the price is right, and the filters affordable, I'm getting one.
It's a Mugwump.
Enjoy!
I hate my filter, instead of filthy tap water, it gives me filthy tap water that tastes like activated charcoal.
Why do I even use it?
@Ghede: aren't septic tanks user owned?
Yeah I tried delivered water, still have two five gallon water dispensers sitting around. The cure was a very high quality water softener and a new fridge with water/ice on the door and the smartwater plus filter system in it. I would really recommend this combo (Florida has very hard water) over anything else.
If you get a new fridge, make sure of two things. First the water filter has to be very easy to replace (not the inline ones you had to get behind to remove) and that your coffee pot fits inside the spigot for water if you make coffee a lot. Saw some that had just a glass sized compartment for getting water, not too useful.
I'm going to guess that this filter doesn't do all that much more than a typical $10-20 pitcher filter does. It's going to cost a lot, and you'll be paying largely for its aesthetic value (looks pretty, no argument with that).
People get so silly about water. My piano teacher used to keep a chunk of bamboo charcoal in her Brita pitcher to "remove impurities". Guess what those little black bits in the pitcher filter are? Activated carbon, chemically the same thing as charcoal and in terms of microscopic structure, probably better than a piece of scorched bamboo at adsorbing organic molecules.
i like the fact that my next glass of water could help me relax or help me focus or clip the edge off the blues or even give me a sweet sweet narcoticy buzz.
i fully encourage everyone to dump their drugs down the drain.
@ninjagin: Well done. =)
Anyone who believes anything that NBC posts at "news" or "facts" deserves to remain ignorant.
And I had no idea that adult immune systems stoped learning, I had always heard it's always learning, even past childhood.
Either way you want your kids exposed to germs, not hide them in bubbles.
@Ghede: Not to mention the old building plumbing. I remember my grandparents' apartment in Brooklyn where dark brown rust-water would come out of any faucet if it hadn't been used for more than a few hours.
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