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Old 24-11-2015, 14:14   #31
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Re: Watermaker Myths

I remember when I first saw bottled water at circle K and thought it was a joke and would never work, bottle of water the same price as a Budweiser WOW!!!

When I had my daughters (started late in life, had them before I turned 50 though) and the doctor told us to never use bottled water for the babies. That should tell you something in itself


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I yearn for the days when as kids we all drank from the hose.
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With pretty much all of them I've been the first to drink a glass of the water made. I'm still here and I've never gotten sick from it

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I even had one knucklehead onboard two summers ago, who refused to drink the water because he said "the fishes crap and pee in the ocean... I'm not drinking that stuff." Needless to say, he won't be invited back.
And fishes fornicate in water. That's why I don't put it in my whiskey
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I started work as a sales rep in 1985. My boss had put a just introduced to the market bottle of water on top of his filing cupboard with a plaque that said "if you think your job's hard, be thankful you don't have to try and sell this stuff". How times have changed!

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When I pointed out to the numbskull that his city's water supply back home came from a reservoir which also had mammals, fish and birds crapping and peeing in the water, he said "that's different, the city has experts testing the water for safety." I showed him how I tested the watermaker product water for purity using the ppm tester, his reply.... "You're no expert."



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Personally I never have understood why people drink bottled water in so called first world countries.
However we spent 10 years in China and would try to keep my mouth tightly closed when showering with the town water let alone drinking it.Even for the more affluent locals bottled water for drinking was pretty standard and usually in 20 litre fountain type containers but finding reputable sellers was always a challenge and we usually boiled it as well.
Not drinking your own RO water after spending many many $K I don't get that either .But marketing turns normally reasonably intelligent people into ???? when it comes to parting with their money.
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We drink bottled water even in our coffee pot and yes it is produced with an ro system just don't tell the kids its my own to water maker. They think its from the store.
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I even know of a couple of fools who only give their dogs and cats bottled water to drink. I'm sure as soon as they leave the house, their animals head right to the toilet for the "good stuff."

What a waste...
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Re: Watermaker Myths

Man those guys would have fit to hear that many cruisers in the past drank muddy water off the side of a river bank in Africa and filtered through a clay pot!

Anyone that comes to our island house gets ice made from my rooftop cistern. Although we chlorinate, the only other thing we do is filter through a basic filter from Home Depot.

Never hurt anyone. We clean out the cistern maybe every 10 years.


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RO is great at removing NaCl and most particulates. Viruses and many bacteria are smaller than H2O molecules and therefore get though the filter just fine. We drink our RO water, but only make water offshore or when we are at the front of a harbor on an incoming tide (and then only if necessary), and all of our water goes through a UV sterilizer.
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RO is great at removing NaCl and most particulates. Viruses and many bacteria are smaller than H2O molecules and therefore get though the filter just fine. We drink our RO water, but only make water offshore or when we are at the front of a harbor on an incoming tide (and then only if necessary), and all of our water goes through a UV sterilizer.
Well, the title of this thread is "Watermaker Myths"

The size of the smallest known virus is ~5nm (in this case nm=nanometer, not nautical mile). The Na+ ion has a Van der Waals diameter of about 450 pm (picometers) or about 1/10 the size of the smallest known virus. And then water molecules have a Van der Waals diameter of ~275 picometers.

The RO industry uses a "standard" definition of 0.1nm as the pore size of RO membranes, or about 50 times smaller than the smallest known virus.

I don't think there is an RO manufacturer out their that sells their system as capable of virus or bacteria removal, but that is more a function of the regulatory environment than the capabilities of the process.

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Reverse Osmosis Systems use a process that reverses the flow of water in a natural process of osmosis so that water passes from a more concentrated solution to a more dilute solution through a semi-permeable membrane. Pre- and post-filters are often incorporated along with the reverse osmosis membrane itself.

A reverse osmosis filter has a pore size of approximately 0.0001 micron.

Reverse Osmosis Systems have a very high effectiveness in removing protozoa (for example, Cryptosporidium, Giardia);

Reverse Osmosis Systems have a very high effectiveness in removing bacteria (for example, Campylobacter, Salmonella, Shigella, E. coli);

Reverse Osmosis Systems have a very high effectiveness in removing viruses (for example, Enteric, Hepatitis A, Norovirus, Rotavirus);

Reverse Osmosis Systems will remove common chemical contaminants (metal ions, aqueous salts), including sodium, chloride, copper, chromium, and lead; may reduce arsenic, fluoride, radium, sulfate, calcium, magnesium, potassium, nitrate, and phosphorous.

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RO is great at removing NaCl and most particulates. Viruses and many bacteria are smaller than H2O molecules and therefore get though the filter just fine. We drink our RO water, but only make water offshore or when we are at the front of a harbor on an incoming tide (and then only if necessary), and all of our water goes through a UV sterilizer.
Please explain how a bacteria can be smaller than an H2O molecule.

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Folks...

I have a case of bottled water aboard. I'm saving it in case I get thirsty while fixing my watermaker.

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Folks...

I have a case of bottled water aboard. I'm saving it in case I get thirsty while fixing my watermaker.

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That's funny we carried 2 x10 litre bottles around for two years just in case all else went wrong.Drank them at home last week.
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