Hagen Brothers farms,Goodrich ND | Thurd Ferguson - 12/3/2011 07:45
We had a Reverse Osmosis system when we had a well ten years ago. We liked the taste, but it seemed we went through the water too fast. If I remember correctly, the RO water is stored in a one gallon tank. That won't last long when we are drinking. Also on our system, to make that one gallon of RO water, 30 gallons was pumped through the filters and discharged into our septic. Our septic field was always wet. We were very thankful to move to rural water and sewer, at least in our area of rocky red clay that doesn't perc well.
Anyway, maybe today's RO systems work differently?
Thanks for all the help so far.
I installed a RO drinking water system last winter, makes great drinking water from some really nasty well water.
We have it plumbed to a seperate valve by the kitchen sink. It makes enough mineral free water for drinking, cooking, battery and radiator water.
It will make 2-3 gallons per day and stores it in a 4 gallon bladder tank. The tell me the ratio of RO water to rinse water is 4 rinse for every gallon of RO water, so every gallon of RO water takes 5 total.
The thing removes all minerals, even salt, but will not remove chlorine through the RO filter. The before and after particle filters are made from activated carbon and will collect some chlorine, but I am sure that is pretty limited.
The before particle filter cloggs pretty quickly, but can be cleaned, repeatedly, so the operating cost is pretty low.
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