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Are Brita filters bullshit? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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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.

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[–] 64 points 1 year ago (13 children)

If you have decent quality tap water you aren't going to see any health benefits from filtering. You're right to be skeptical. If you think the taste is better after filtering, then that is a good enough reason to filter. Personally, I shifted over to unfiltered tap water decades ago and am fine with it.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago

    Lucky me, I live in iowa and the farmers are dumping so much shit that the nitrates have been building up in our water supplies. Iowa is second ranked for cancer rates and only state where they are going up.

    But don't you worry about Monsanto and company, the state passed laws to make it difficult to sue those companies and they are cutting down in water testing, so I'm sure it's going to get so much better. FREEDOM!

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    You and I are lucky to have quality tap water. I live in the Bay Area and our water is awesome. Go down to LA and it’s poison.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Not true - I live in LA county and the water where I am is excellent - pretty much no benefit from filtering.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I started using one of those fizzy-water-makers and I swear the water tastes better.

    (I do not filter the tap water.)

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