Warning About Ro/di Water!!!

[nikemikey]

Originally Posted by nazerine

The reason you normally need a receipt to return water bottles, is for the sake of people stealing them and returning them for the deposit. I used to have Canadian springs deliver water to my house, and very often empties I put out for pickup would get stolen ....

Sure beats collecting cans. All the places here locally, you can't return more than two at one time.

The lady at the counter explained to me after I was allowed to return the jugs that they have a huge problem with people stealing the empty jugs and printing out fake deposit labels. I can see where they're coming from, BUT, they should have a sign by the water bottles or something on the receipt telling you if you're returning more than 2 at a time, you NEED the receipt to get your deposit back. When I bought the jugs from them, the lady behind the till said nothing to me about keeping the receipt to bring all the jugs back

[banditpowdercoat]

16 jugs, $10/jug deposit. How much for the actual water? You know, I found my RO/DI on ebay, lightly used for $50. Prev owner daid maybe 500 gal through it, and was about right, TDS still really low. 700 in, 10 out

[christyf5]

Wendell from Ocean Aquatics just listed a couple for sale, you can't be do much better than that if you ask me

http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=44937

[nikemikey]

Originally Posted by christyf5

Wendell from Ocean Aquatics just listed a couple for sale, you can't be do much better than that if you ask me

http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=44937

Cool thanks Christy! I'll be calling them tomorrow morning to hopefully secure one for myself

[nikemikey]

Originally Posted by banditpowdercoat

16 jugs, $10/jug deposit. How much for the actual water? You know, I found my RO/DI on ebay, lightly used for $50. Prev owner daid maybe 500 gal through it, and was about right, TDS still really low. 700 in, 10 out

The water is only $4 per 18L jug at Superstore, which I think isn't too bad. Haven't thought about checking ebay for used RO/DI filters though

[brizzo]

Originally Posted by nikemikey

The water is only $4 per 18L jug at Superstore, which I think isn't too bad. Haven't thought about checking ebay for used RO/DI filters though

Yikes! It's only $1.25/18L here ...

[likwid]

You do know that superstore water is RO but they do not use DI filters. Also, I would be weary of those places as I am sure they do not check their filters that often. I use to do the same thing as you before I bought my RO/DI unit. I measured the water with a TDS meter in one of those jugs one day and found out it was at 50+ TDS.

[nikemikey]

Originally Posted by likwid

You do know that superstore water is RO but they do not use DI filters. Also, I would be weary of those places as I am sure they do not check their filters that often. I use to do the same thing as you before I bought my RO/DI unit. I measured the water with a TDS meter in one of those jugs one day and found out it was at 50+ TDS.

I don't use the machine they have to fill up empty jugs, I buy the pre-sealed polaris jugs that they have. I just assumed the water polaris put in those jugs was ro/di, so I'm not 100% sure

[nikemikey]

P.S. - Both of those filters at Ocean Aquatics were sold by the time I called them this morning