Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: water filter for the common house

[Lynn Nadeau (welcome]

You would do well to find a local water filtration consultant, if that  
exists. Otherwise, you can take a variety of approaches. At the main  
water intake into the common house, you can install a first filter  
which will simply take ourt rust and particles. There is a canister,  
mine is clear plastic, and a filter you can change out when it gets  
icky. That will increase the efficiency and life of the finer filters  
at your faucets.

For kitchen use, there are quality filters that are not reverse  
osmosis. The problem with RO is that it wastes a lot of water: for  
every gallon of water purified, it takes 3-9 gallons of water. If you  
do want RO, check out Kinetico-- I think they "only" use about three  
times as much water as you get out of it.

Here, we have rather good City water, but have had a counter-top  
filter at the beverage-bar sink in the dining room where folks get  
drinking water. We don't need to filter general cooking water,  
fortunately.

Lynn Nadeau, RoseWind Cohousing,
Port Townsend WA, where there will be all sorts of celebrations  
Tuesday (this county had over 91% voter turnout, and I think it was  
about 85% Obama). Local "change" groups are using it to sign up new  
volunteers, as well as the dancing celebrations. Tomorrow night a big  
candlelight vigil, for peace, for awareness of Iraq and Gaza and all  
the suffering that's still going on; for ML King, Obama, and the whole  
shebang.