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Sincerely yours, N
I used to have a fancy filtering water pitcher, only to get annoyed at the plastic taste the water in it had (since it was plastic). I just boil my water and keep some silver object in it.
Which brand gave you a "plastic taste"? We use Zero Water at home and Brita at work and have never had anything like that happen. Meanwhile, "boiling" water may kill germs, if there are any in there, but doesn't remove anything. It does not "filter or purify" the water, at all. In fact, if there are substances, like Lead, Chromium or other containments in the water, boiling can, in fact, concentrate these, as you boil off some of the water, and create a more dense concentrate of these toxins you are then drinking!!! The only way "boiling" works as a filter is if you "distill" the water by boiling it off, and having a system (such as a still, or a metal surface above the boiling water, that then collects the steam (which IS pure water) and then condenses that steam down into a collector of some sort. Of course, that is a complex, time consuming and pretty labor intensive way to get "clean water" and since it tends to remove many of the minerals, the water actually tends to taste "flat", rather then "good", even though it is "safe and pure".
Oh, by the way, silver may kill some pathogens, but having a silver object in the water will not mean any silver ions come off, or that it will have any "purifying effect" at all. You have to have a suspension of silver molecules to do that, or a "silver fine filter". Also, careful with those things, since silver ingestion can be toxic as well. (Not to mention can turn your skin blue)!
