Water filtration

We bought a reverse osmosis system with 5 filters from Leroy Merlin that cost about 140€. My husband installed it himself. You can just buy carbon filters but they only clean out the residues in the water and don't remove the harmful heavy metals and chemicals. We use our filtered water for drinking, cooking and using in our SodaStream to make sparkling water too. We've saved ourselves a fortune on bottled waters.

Yes. we have a water filter fitted at source, i.e. where the water first enters the property. Replacement cartridges are easy to fit and cost about 40€ for 2 which last 12 months. Not only does it save you having to carry water home from the supermarket, it protects all your home appliances from kettle to washing machine, etc. from calcification/scale. It is lovely being able to drink water from any tap.

Hi I have the osmosis water system installed, however I stopped using it when I realized how much water is wasted to make 1 ltr.

This is even more important now that we are suffering a drought situation, with many of our water resources drying up.

Below is one of the many articles available on this subject.

Any Reverse Osmosis equipment throws water into the drain, since it is the main base of an osmosis process. The rejection/product ratio can vary from 2 to 1 (2 liters of water to the drain for 1 liter of good water produced) up to 12 to 1, depending on the quality of the product, the working pressure and the characteristics of the water. to treat Keep in mind that if the rejection is very small, then the reverse osmosis membrane becomes saturated more quickly. In any case, the water that we flush down the drain is not an economic cost, since we consume little water from our mouths (5 litres/day, we throw about 20 liters down the drain, 3 toilet tanks).

Thanks for your responses. Very helpful.

If you live in LA you don't need a reverse osmosis system that's overkill, I installed a water filter from a local company called H2O it costs 100 euros to install then the British made porcelain filters are 40e each every 6 months. It's a brilliant simple system and no more bottles to hunk about. Let me know if you want contact details for H2O.

I would like details of H20 please.

Thanks in advance:-)