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Old 05-07-2007, 05:33 PM
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I purchased an R/O setup from J&L and a tds meter. I had a normal filtering system for my fish water, I found that it was reading in the 120 mark, my NW Cal tap water was 155, now our drinking water we bought from COOP (Culigan) and it read in one bottle 55 and another purchased a week later 38. I found rain water in my back yard to be 7. My r/o sys. puts out consistent water at 1. Just so you know when water has a 0 tds it doesn't have a taste (tasteless) anything added to water changes that. Just from my experience and my .02 worth on the H20.
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Old 05-07-2007, 07:02 PM
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Regardless of the price of jugs and refills, you'll pay for an RODi unit after about 75 jugs worth of top ups and water changes. Buying a filter was the way to go after I really did the math.
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Old 05-07-2007, 07:06 PM
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Regardless of the price of jugs and refills, you'll pay for an RODi unit after about 75 jugs worth of top ups and water changes. Buying a filter was the way to go after I really did the math.

Ditto here. Buying an RO unit is really more cost effective IMO (mind you I rent and don't "pay" for water).

I found that most of the grocery stores I went to actually had a higher TDS reading than tap water. Gross.
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Old 05-08-2007, 12:10 AM
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I agree RO/DI is the way to go long term or even medium term.But in a pinch,Zellers and Shoppers both sell RO or DI water.
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