I have one of those pitchers that I mainly use to get rid of the chlorine taste in the tap water, but are the actual health claims about drinking filtered water actually true? There are claims that these dinky little passive filters can get rid of things like lead and PFAS which I honestly don’t believe. Especially if you’re using it with tap water which I’d assume would always have some kind of active filtration before it gets to your home, so the idea that whatever got past the industrial grade filter at the water treatment plant can be caught by a little plastic one sounds more than a little fishy to me. Anyone have knowledge about this.
Not true - I live in LA county and the water where I am is excellent - pretty much no benefit from filtering.
I guess things changed since two decades ago? What happened to give you guys safe water? In 2002, my friends in LA bought jugs of bottled water at the store because by the time it was piped down, all kinds of nasty shit had leached into it.
Maybe it depends on where? I’ve lived here all my life and the water quality has always been excellent. But my understanding is that, because the county is so huge, different parts get their water from different sources. So maybe I’m just fortunate to live in an area that’s good.
Aha, I see. My friends lived in North Hollywood at the time. I really don’t know the layout or anything beyond that. But the county being huge sounds familiar and would make sense if this varies a lot.