Water Cleaning - Boiling vs Water Filter

[mfdarvesh]

In these days, getting clean dinking water is difficult job.
IMHO, there are three known methods to clean water

1) Boiling Water
2) Water Filter
3) Water Cleaning Tablets/Medicines

We at home normally boil water. This practice is really time consuming and one person is constantly busy in boiling and managing water. Boiling pan builds rock white inside, an hammer is required to break that rock.

Water Filter is varities are avaialble. I experience, filtering water and then boiling, still white rock powder was in pan

I heard some sort of tablets are available for water clearning, is that works?

Expert opinion is required, if we discard boiling water, what technique is better to get pure drinking water?

[Tabish1]

It depends!!
We use Boiled Water since born
on the other hand my chacha`s family use Filtered water .. same Area

I have one water filter , I want to sale it.. (Karachi members)

[sial_ali]

boil behtar hai bhai

filter karnay say kuch maheenon baad filter mein fungus nahi lag jaata ?

[whiteangel]

Best thing is to get a RO (Reverse Osmosis) filter. I have one installed in my home.

All bottled water companies and filtration plants use Reverse Osmosis to purify water. The conventional three cartridge filters are useless. They can only remove contaminants as big as 0.3 to 1 micron (depending on the cartridge you are using). Whereas RO can remove contaminants as small as 0.0001 micron.

Boiling only kills germs, it cannot remove chemical contaminants from water, whereas RO can remove microbiological as well as chemical contaminants.

[babarhyd]

boil behtar hai bhai

filter karnay say kuch maheenon baad filter mein fungus nahi lag jaata ?

Chacha g every week filter ki cleaning karein tu fungus nahi lagta!

[babarhyd]

Best thing is to get a RO (Reverse Osmosis) filter. I have one installed in my home.

All bottled water companies and filtration plants use Reverse Osmosis to purify water. The conventional three cartridge filters are useless. They can only remove contaminants as big as 0.3 to 1 micron (depending on the cartridge you are using). Whereas RO can remove contaminants as small as 0.0001 micron.

Boiling only kills germs, it cannot remove chemical contaminants from water, whereas RO can remove microbiological as well as chemical contaminants.

+1 Ditto

[Vaqas1]

Need more details on RO system. How much it costs?

[AsadGhumman]

Please explain RO & how an ordinary man can do this

Best thing is to get a RO (Reverse Osmosis) filter. I have one installed in my home.

All bottled water companies and filtration plants use Reverse Osmosis to purify water. The conventional three cartridge filters are useless. They can only remove contaminants as big as 0.3 to 1 micron (depending on the cartridge you are using). Whereas RO can remove contaminants as small as 0.0001 micron.

Boiling only kills germs, it cannot remove chemical contaminants from water, whereas RO can remove microbiological as well as chemical contaminants.

[whiteangel]

This is the unit that I have installed in my home. The entire system cost me Rs. 18000. Cheaper Chinese systems are available for Rs. 10,000.

It is a five stage filter.
Stage 1: Sediment Filter
Stage 2 and 3: Carbon filters
Stage 4: RO membrane
and Stage 5: post filter

It has a built in pump which passes water through the filter under pressure. Pure water is stored in the tank for use. The tank is needed because the filtration process is slow and it takes about a minute or more to filter half a glass of water. The entire system is automatic. When the tank is full, the filter automatically turns off. The tank stores about 3 gallons of pure water.

[syncview]

Indeed^ the reverse osmosis is the best we can have to get good drinking water at home, although there are other korean simple three cartridge filters which do the job pretty well but nothing beats the RO.

If you're in Lahore or nearby, call at this number : 03219466955 Bisharad. this guy installs pretty much every type and scale of water filtration at homes or industries, prices and services are good too.

[mfdarvesh]

Thanks all friends

Thanks @whiteangel

Yes RO is best filtration system, here in Rawalpindi a guy at AquaGurad told me that Chines will cost Rs 17000 and Taiwanese will cost Rs 19000 with Rs 700 maintenance every three months and Rs 2000 membrane after 2 years.

@syncview brother
I have checked Mabiz and SoSafe three stage normal filters, after filtering water, I boiled and found white rock (hardness) in water

Now I intended to check RO System and boiling results, may I have a chance to check

[BackToCivicFaiez]

but reverse osmosis will remove minerals from the water too.....which are needed for a good health.

[sam007]

we have a 3 stage filter at our home!!

[whiteangel]

@syncview brother
I have checked Mabiz and SoSafe three stage normal filters, after filtering water, I boiled and found white rock (hardness) in water

Now I intended to check RO System and boiling results, may I have a chance to check

Hardness is due to high TDS (Total Dissolved Solids). Typically, the TDS of tap water ranges from 300-500. An RO filter will bring that down to between 7-15. If you boil RO water, it will leave no trace of limescale (white rock).

If you keep boiling tap water in a utensil to make tea, you will notice that hard white deposits form on the inside which are very hard to remove. But ever since we switched to RO there are no such deposit

@Backtocivicfaiez
Yes you are right that RO strips the water of almost all minerals, but consider that all the food we eat is full of minerals. So you will not suffer from mineral deficiency because you are drinking RO water.

If you are concerned about getting minerals in your drinking water, then they can buy an RO unit which comes with a post filtration mineral cartridge. The purified RO water flows into this cartridge which adds minerals to it.

[awais.9]

used to boil water but it leaves white residue
from long time shifted to water from filter plant

[mfdarvesh]

Hardness is due to high TDS (Total Dissolved Solids). Typically, the TDS of tap water ranges from 300-500. An RO filter will bring that down to between 7-15. If you boil RO water, it will leave no trace of limescale (white rock).

If you keep boiling tap water in a utensil to make tea, you will notice that hard white deposits form on the inside which are very hard to remove. But ever since we switched to RO there are no such deposit

@Backtocivicfaiez
Yes you are right that RO strips the water of almost all minerals, but consider that all the food we eat is full of minerals. So you will not suffer from mineral deficiency because you are drinking RO water.

If you are concerned about getting minerals in your drinking water, then they can buy an RO unit which comes with a post filtration mineral cartridge. The purified RO water flows into this cartridge which adds minerals to it.

Which RO Filter you are using and what is its cost?

used to boil water but it leaves white residue
from long time shifted to water from filter plant

Public Water Filter Plants in Islamabad are almost Dramas
since inception, their filters never changed, no guess their effectiveness

[awais.9]

well due to slow pressure i mostly fill water directly from tube well,n that water is directly coming n is definitely clean

[Vaqas1]

Right now water I get water from a Filtration plant its an Airforce facility and they test the water every month and past it on the filtration plant and as per that page its well below the safe range :).

[whiteangel]

Which RO Filter you are using and what is its cost?

Public Water Filter Plants in Islamabad are almost Dramas
since inception, their filters never changed, no guess their effectiveness

I am using the Multiply unit in the picture above. Bought it last year for Rs.18000. It's a very good quality product. At that time I bought it from someone else. But later I was able to locate the main distributor of Multiply in Pakistan. He sells pretty much all kinds of filters for home and industrial use.

He told me that people buy filtration plants from them for 1-2lakh and sell them to the govt for 30lakhs. And he also said that once they sell the plant they don't bother to replace the filters, which is why filtration plants are useless.

[mfdarvesh]

Here in Islamabad/Rawalpindi
I have located AquaSafe, he is also selling water filter, a Taiwanese RO Filter is Rs 19,000