Friday, August 1, 2008

"Awesome" Water

I thought that for today's post I would gross you out a bit. Sound good? At home we use a reverse-osmosis water treatment system for our drinking water. Typically it has filters that should be changed roughly every six months. If you let it go too long it gets clogged up and the faucet slows down.

I get a kick out of people who use Romeoville water that think (and many are convinced) it is of good quality (except for those Radon letters we get every once in a while). I keep trying to tell them that they are being deceived and that the water isn't all that great. Of course neither is Chicago water for that matter but I'll save that conversation for another day. Well, it took less than four months between filter changes that the water started slowing down through the faucet. I have noticed that in the past year or so it has been taking less time to clog the filters. Last week I had to change them again. If you know anything about this system it has a pre and post filter. The pre-filter is usually the nasty looking one. So ladies and gentlemen, after four months of using the "great" Romeoville water, I replaced the filters. The two pictures show the new one (bright shiny white) and the one that I just removed (the ugly black/brown gunky one). Yesiree, this is what y'all are putting into yerselves folks. Isn't it awesome? You can pretty much duplicate this in most towns around. And most filter systems don't remove much of this stuff (like those little Brita things). They say that Romeoville water is among the most expensive in the state. Heh.....
Enjoy the picture show:


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Of course it's expensive, all that gunk isn't free, ya know!