Fill Your Own At Home
             Drink healthy water, drink it responsibly
             and save money
Just say NO to disposable bottle water use.
Over $1.00 for a gallon (and often only a liter) of bottled water in disposable plastic.
Bottled water costs hundreds to thousands of times more than tap water, and tens to hundreds of times more than home filtered or distilled water.
'If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.' Loran Eisley, The Immense Journey Bottled water is not necessarily more pure or safer than tap water, according to Consumer Reports and the Environmental Working Group.
'If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.' Loran Eisley, The Immense Journey Bottled water wastes resources and pollutes the earth and atmosphere at every stage of its production, distribution, and disposal of used bottles. The US bottled water habit wastes over 17,000,000 barrels of oil/year, produces as much CO2 as 2,000,000 cars and sends more than 35,000,000,000 plastic bottles to the trash annually. Yep, that's really 35 billion bottles that go to landfills or are otherwise discarded!
'If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.' Loran Eisley, The Immense Journey Water is water. All marketing claims that treated bottled water has special properties: ultra pure, a source of youth, alkaline, ionized, natural, catalyzed, clustered, structured, smart, oxygenated, enhanced, energized, vortexed, are essentially meaningless.
'If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.' Loran Eisley, The Immense Journey It's your choice - It is convenient - but it's far more expensive, both monetarily and environmentally, to buy into the marketing hype of the the bottled water industry.
'If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.' Loran Eisley, The Immense Journey The bottom line: Except for emergency situations, where the bottled water industry has been generous providing drinking water, there is little justification for the purchase and use of water in disposable plastic bottles.
'If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.' Loran Eisley, The Immense Journey Additional Resources:
- More information on bottled water
- Drinking water treatment methods
- Water scams

Disposable water bottle use wastes money and uses valuable resources

It's Your Choice

A family enjoys filling their own reusable water bottle at home.
Municipal water companies in the United States generally produce good quality tap water. However, most municipal water also contains residual disinfectants like chlorine or chloramine, and the water can never be completely free of all contaminants.  It frequently contains disinfection byproducts that might cause a slightly increased risk of health problems, lead from home water pipes and trace amounts of an ever-changing cocktail of contaminants.

If you would like to enhance the taste, reduce contaminants, increase the quality of your tap water and provide protection in the case of water emergencies consider investing in a high quality water filtration system.

Break the Disposable Bottled Water Habit!
The Multipure MP750 Aquqversa MP750 was Good Housekeeping's  best compact under-sink water filter for 2023. 
More information and order details here.
- The filter cartridge contains nearly two pounds of solid block activated carbon, has 0.5 micron pores and will effectively treat 750 to 1,200 gallons of typical tap water.
- Multipure filter cartridges are NSF certified to reduce a wide variety of contaminants including chlorine, chloramine, disinfection byproducts and lead. Beneficial minerals like calcium and magnesium are not removed.
- The under-counter filtration system uses a heavy gauge stainless steel housing with a lifetime warranty.
- Filtered water from the under-counter systems is dispensed through a separate faucet when you need it, at about 0.75 gallons per minute. You will enjoy a virtually unlimited supply of refreshing, sparkling-clean water for drinking, preparing beverages and food, making ice, watering pets & plants, etc. for just a few cents per gallon year after year!
- A comparison of filtration systemsCheap pitcher and faucet filters have very small, less effective filter cartridges compared to a high quality filtration system. You are trusting your health to the filter you choose to use.
- Cheap pitcher and faucet filters are inexpensive to purchase but relatively expensive to keep using. If you plan to continue drinking water, it may be less expensive to use a high quality filter than cheap, relatively ineffective alternatives. Compare prices
- A high quality solid block activated carbon filtration system can be disconnected and used to treat water in emergency situations where a loss of electricity or water pressure would prevent distillation or reverse osmosis from working.
It's Your Choice - Choose to Save Today
for additional details and ordering information on the Multipure filtration systems I recommend - or contact Randy Johnson, randy@cyber-nook.com
 
 

Fill Your Own At Home and Save!
'If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.' Loran Eisley, The Immense Journey $0.001 for a liter of tap water
$0.02 for a liter of filtered water
Let's say a carton of local eggs cost $1.00. Would you choose to pay $50 for a dozen eggs from spring-watered chickens? How about $150 for a dozen eggs imported from Fiji or France?
'If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.' Loran Eisley, The Immense Journey You choose the quality of water you bottle at home. You can fill your own reusable bottles with tap water, filtered water or distilled water.
'If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.' Loran Eisley, The Immense Journey Tap water requires 2,000 times less energy to produce than bottled water.  You can help conserve resources.  Every time you fill your own, you save about 1/4 liter of oil and save one bottle from the trash heap or recycle bin - one out of 30 billion might not seem like much, but it would be a start.
'If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.' Loran Eisley, The Immense Journey Water is water. Most people get all the minerals they need from their food. There is no scientific evidence that any process can change the energy or properties of water so it adjusts the body's pH, hydrates better or has any other special health benefits.
'If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.' Loran Eisley, The Immense Journey It's your choice - In most cases it is very easy, far less expensive and more environmentally responsible to treat and bottle your own water at home or while traveling.
'If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.' Loran Eisley, The Immense Journey The bottom line: There are three main point of use (POU) water treatment methods. Each process has benefits and limitations:

A high quality solid block activated carbon filtration enables you to fill your own disposable bottle and save.Solid Block Activated Carbon (SBAC) is the least expensive effective home treatment process and does not require electricity or high water pressure. It significantly reduces chlorine, aA stainless steel housing for lifetime durability wide variety of organic contaminants like disinfection byproducts and can be designed to reduce levels of some inorganic chemicals like lead and arsenic.Countertop filters are useful in apartments or other places where under-counter systems are impractical. Activated Carbon is ineffective against some inorganic contaminants like salts, iron, fluoride, aluminum,  calcium, etc. Under-counter and counter top systems are available. 
I recommend this treatment method for most households.

Reverse osmosis is effective but is over-kill for most municipal water.Reverse Osmosis (RO) is effective against most inorganic and organic contaminants but requires an activated carbon post filter to reduce some volatile organic contaminants. RO requires water pressure, is fairly slow and typically wastes more water than it treats.

Distillation is the most effective, the slowest and the most expensive home water treatment process. Distillation requires electricity or other energy source to purify water.