Here is a pic of my old R/O filter and the new one. The old one was in less than a year and it looks scary. Glad I don't drink that crap straight out of the tap.

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- You can pray for me, I'll think for you.
- When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

Heck, the filter on my water looks like that after 2 weeks. That's just mud and iron-never hurt ya. The bad stuff goes right through that kind of filter.

There are three other filters in the system. Two Charcoal and one thin membrane before it goes into my mouth. Still, I don't like the idea of it being that dirty. Yuck!

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- God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller as time moves on..." Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- You can pray for me, I'll think for you.
- When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

Don't bother me a bit. Just one more reason to drink beer.
I'd buy bottled water before I installed all those other filters.
But what kinda water comes out your shower head?

I don't drink that just bath in it ......

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- With out god, life is everything.
- God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller as time moves on..." Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- You can pray for me, I'll think for you.
- When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

I didn't think you did drink it, but I don't shower in water I wouldn't drink.
To each his own.

I don't want to pile on with the anxiety therapy overload, but I heard some scary stuff about shower water the other day on Science Friday on NPR. It's been known for some time that the aerosol mist aspect of shower heads surrounds one with a chlorine mist - now it's come out that some germs survive the chlorination and they can go deep into the lungs via the aerosol misting action.

The claim is that the bugs that can survive the chlorine are extra nasty - sorta like bugs that evolve to overcome anti-biotics. The guy was saying the best way to get around it was to use a hose in place of the shower head - no mist that way.

Might be fear-mongering nonsense but who knows?

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I read that as well but that ain't gonna force me to shower with a bucket, I just don't feel clean enough.

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Chlorine Mist....yeah right. There is such a small amount of chlorine in tap water overall I really doubt there is any risk at all.

Up here in MI we have some of the cleanest tap water out there.

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What is that stuff? Might just be mineral stains. Most US tap water is good. Bottled water isn't necessarily cleaner either.. like someone had said before me.. if you're scared, drink beer

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You've got an immune system, USE THE DAMN THING!!!

Looks gross, but most likely harmless.
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Texas has hard water - your dirty filter is catching the "hard" part. My filters are the same and the water is clean and fine to drink.

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Our tap water around here is very clean.

They add small amoounts of plastic to coat the inside of the pipes.

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Some places are better than other. Down here, the toney burg of Woodside has pretty tasty tap water. But down in the flatlands, good Lord, I can't stand to drink tap water. The chlorine taste is just too much.

Ideal setup is to chlorinate water as we do, keeps the bugs way down, and then filter the hell out of it the house.

The Multi-pure systems are a bit spendy but have large filters, probably better than the one in the OP. The big $$ houses we built had purification systems for the whole house, not just the drinking water. A lot of maintenance though.

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After all the work I've done with environmental labs here in TX over the years, you would have to be insane to drink TX tap water. They buried so many 55 gallon drums filled with waste since the 1920s, it is unbelievable, and they don't know where half of it is. Add to that all the asbestos contamination from years of dumping demolition waste into the nearest river, forget about it.